Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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YOUR OWN THING slides Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into the 20th century with multimedia effects, rock music and the unisex look of the with-it generation. Leland Palmer lends rag-doll insouciance to a perpetual-motion Viola...
YOUR OWN THING slides Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into the 20th century with multimedia effects, rock music and the unisex look of the with-it generation. Leland Palmer lends rag-doll insouciance to a perpetual-motion Viola...
Reaction to the mixed-media spiritual message was understandably mixed. "There is no question that the multimedia sermon is the coming thing," said the Rev. Edward Theisen of Milwaukee. "To appeal to the whole man, which multimedia purports to do, provides an answer." But many of the preaching experts were decidedly cool. Some questioned whether audiovisual imagery can actually say more about Christian faith than an inspired verbal sermon. Still others felt that Schillaci's superhip technique was a lot more appropriate to a college campus than an urban congregation...
...Mehta was just following the score of Contextures, a new multimedia orchestral work which he commissioned from Composer William Kraft. Accompanying the first movement of Contextures, subtitled "Riots-Decade 60," was a color film in which abstract patterns had been scratched, brushed and drawn on celluloid, and punctuated with black and white stills of last summer's riots in U.S. cities. Accompanying the nonstop fourth and fifth movements was an exacting film inspection of Painter Reginald Pollack's works on the themes of segregation and violence-closeups of hooded Klan marauders, straining limbs, the curled bodies of innocent...
Looking Westward. The sets swing too-literally. They reflect the trend of multimedia dance, which means that moving scenery, lights, props, sound effects and film clips have all become an integral part of the choreography, as in Jeffrey's Astarte (see cover picture). Accompaniment ranges from full symphony orchestras and electronic yawping to jazz and, as in the case of Jerome Robbins' Moves, dead silence. Costuming can consist of tossing on anything that suits the moment or, as in Parades and Changes, performed by Ann Halprin's Dancers' Workshop of San Francisco, taking...