January 17, 2008

News, Videos and Commentary

- Misnomer Dance Theater wins $10,000 prize from Ideablob to develop Internet tools for dancers. Here's their thank you post. And on related note, here's Misnomer documentary on Sundance channel:

- Andrew Taylor has excellent post "Rules of engagement" (with good comments) about ways to improve Arts Presenters conference that took place this past week. But he doesn't name names, which sessions were good and not good? Should we critique sessions the way we critique bloggers and dance companies? I think yes - why shouldn't we hold session panelists and moderators accountable? When I make statement on my blog that's not accurate, I ought to be corrected. For example, Jennifer of Saturday Matanee modified my premise, in a comment of hers, about Cedar Lake Ballet being first arts organization to reach out to bloggers.

- TechCrunch's 60-second long Steve Jobs keynote from Macworld 2008 - this is the length most presentations out to be:

- Two effective video promotions of dance performances and installations: Chunky Move's Glow (click video link) [via Networked Performance] and Cedar Lake's Glassy Essence video [via Danciti]:

- Big Art Mob is a growing collection of photos of public art throughout the UK [via Mashable]. This would be interesting project for dance world - maybe collecting and mapping videos of site-specific performances along the lines of what I did for Three Rails Projects using Google Maps.

- Dance critic Claudia La Rocco discusses Miguel Gutierrez on WNYC radio [via DTW blog].

- Hey, pictures of my ballet teacher, Finis Jhung. Well, slight exaggeration. I've only taken one of his classes at Alvin Ailey. Here are pictures of Jhung teaching posted by Veronica Moretti Niebuhr on The Winger. Take a look at the Finis Jhung website to see how they present and sell ballet DVDs.

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