Word: cunningham
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...Seahawks The K.C. Line: Now that those sissy boys of summer have left the stage, the time has come for the real men to take over. And nowhere are the men more real, and more ready to tell you about it, than Kansas City, where Gunther Cunningham proudly coaches smash-mouth football and his quarterback bravely tells himself that the home fans aren't booing, they're just saying "Elvis." But it's Mr. Grbac that's going to keep the Chiefs down as they win but do not cover against a Chargers defense that will make Elvis into...
This "moving decor," as Cunningham calls it, was painstakingly created by digital artists Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser. Employing the techniques used to create such video-game characters and animations as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft and the dancing baby Ally McBeal, Eshkar and Kaiser fine-tuned the process to capture precise dance steps. To start, they used motion-capture technology to record the movements of a live dancer with digital video cameras. They then used 3-D animation software called Character Studio and 3D Studio Max to map the movements onto their own digital drawings and render the final...
...feel like one, but in reality it's an animated, digital dancer, projected onstage in Biped, a hypnotic, groundbreaking performance by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In a single stroke, Biped brings dance, that most physical of the arts, into the digital age, engaging the audience with its playful illusions. It's digital wizardry at its finest, and you don't need 3-D glasses--or opera glasses--to enjoy it. The Cunningham troupe performed Biped at Lincoln Center in New York City last week. It will tour Europe in the fall and return to Chicago, Washington and other...
...Cunningham, 80, whose innovative choreography has been expanding audiences' expectations about dance for more than 50 years, is reticent about connecting the dots. "The only relationship between the virtual and real dancers is the one you make for yourself," he says, comparing the experience of watching Biped to channel surfing. But that may be precisely the point, according to Roger Copeland, author of an upcoming book on the choreographer. Copeland believes that Biped, like much of Cunningham's recent work, is about how to focus your attention in a world full of distractions. "It's a model for a very...
...about those who, like gun advocate Lisa Bochard, think teachers should carry guns is that they are fools. Do you want your child taught by someone who is willing to shoot students? Would this kind of atmosphere foster learning and personal growth in America's public schools? NIKKI CUNNINGHAM Columbus, Ohio...