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| Last Edit: Chromolume 01:49 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:48 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My fear - ryhog 10:18 am EST 03/13/21 | |
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| We've already had any number of online plays (and even some musicals and cabarets) that have dealt with issues surrounding the pandemic, and often using Zoom not just as a presentation platform but as part of the realism of the pieces themselves, etc. I think that once we're able to go back to the theatre for real, people won't want to be reminded of all that quite so fast, and in fact will want to escape all that. That being said, conversely, I also tend to wonder if the use of video in live performance (the Van Hove West Side Story, for instance) won't be seen quite as controversially as it was pre-pandemic. It may be that artists will actually see more opportunities and value in using video in conjunction with live performance, now that we've been forced to use that medium in new ways. Just as in real life, I doubt that Zoom will go away given that people have now found practical uses for it. Just that we won't want to use it for everything. |
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| re: My fear | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:38 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My fear - Chromolume 01:48 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
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| I agree about both video and Zoom as a subset or whatever of it, and any technology for that matter. To me, the introduction of video into live performance is not a new or controversial thing at all. The Wooster Group has been playing around with live and recorded video since before I started going down to see their work (and that's a long long time ago). It has slowly entered the mainstream, with greater or lesser resistance along the way, but I think you are right that the pandemic has likely made it more palatable to some. (To an extent it is a generational resistance I think, and in that sense the centrality of zoom especially as a lifeline for many older generations this past year is going to have a lasting effect. I think.) | |
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