This is one of those wonderful days where I get to share something absolutely jaw-dropping with you. Not that I don't consider everything on this blog to be incredible, but every now and then somebody will show me a video so mind blowing that I'll forget how to breathe until it's over. And then I'll drop everything I was doing and post it here.
Behold... the work of master multimedia artists Michael Limieux and Victor Pilon, collectively known as Lemieux Pilon 4D Art. You know how when you hear about new methods and software and pieces of technology and you think to yourself "wow, I wonder what this will make possible." This is the beginning of the answer to that query, and I have a feeling that it's just the tip of the iceburg. This is the rare kind of visual stuff that makes you literally question what's possible in live theatre and whether anything isn't.
Below, I will share with you a video of excerpts from their live show La Belle et la Bête. If this doesn't knock the wind out of you, nothing will.
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So clearly, I took a hiatus from doing this blog while I finished out the semester. School's done, so we can have some fun again :)
It isn't immediately clear who or what Big Ideas Productions is. He/she/they are a gifted video and animation artist who posts YouTube videos under the user name Pygyn, and I'm going to share with you my favorite piece from their lot. It's called "Somewhere". A beautiful and, to my knowledge, original song set to a touching and imaginative animated visual journey. Check it out below, and if you like what you see, you can find more of their work on their YouTube channel.
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I was introduced to the works of Australian contemporary dance company Chunky Move in a New Media and Performance class at school yesterday. Holy... dear... sweet... Jesus. The stuff that these guys do is breath-taking. Aside from brilliant, meaningful choreography, the company's work is rich with the integration of cutting age technology that is used to intensify the impact of each piece to the fullest possible degree. If you're at all interested in dance, movement, performance art, theatre, computer software, the abstract, theatrical lighting or sound, or just seeing things that are frieking beautiful, put aside a a few minutes and WATCH THIS STUFF.
I'm going to post here the first video we watched in class. The one that made me look up the rest of their work immediately when I got home. It's highlight footage from a piece called Mortal Engine, which the company's website describes as the following:
"Mortal Engine is a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change."
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For you dancer types out there (not me)... or for those of you who just like to watch works in progress as they're put together (definitely me).
My buddy Jimmy Quartuccio has been shooting a bunch of clips of dancers working with unfinished pieces of his choreography at different stages of the learning period. Great stuff. Very lyrical, uninhibited sort of style with loads of physical expression. He's put it all up for display on his Youtube channel.
Here's a sample... beautiful track in this one. I'll have to find out what that is.
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Terje Sorgjerd, a Norwegian photographer, took roughly 22,000 shots of one of Mother Nature's greatest works of art and turned it into a stunning two-minute video called The Aurora. The video chronicles the movement of the Northern Lights in and around Norway's Kirkenes and Pas National Park on the border of Russia. Of all the breath-taking mysteries on our planet, this has always been one of my favorites. It's so hard to believe that it's real. Check it out:
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