Section : Nouvelles --> En cours
"Live Movies : new media / new technologies for the theatre" |
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007, 2:00 PM |
Using images and video excerpts to illustrate their talks, Kirby Malone and Gail Scott White will address what is at stake in the field of interdisciplinary performance today, as analyzed in their book Live Movies: A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts (2006). The two papers they will give at UQAM on December 6th and 7th will bear on a new form of performance that blends cinema and theatre on stage. Undoubtedly, the « live movie » constitutes one of the most spectacular stage forms in contemporary theatrical performance. Though it is still at an experimental stage, the « live movie » convincingly steps in the history of theatre, as exemplified by Kirby Malone and Gail Scott’s shows in their company Cyburbia Productions. In their latest show, which premiered in Lexington (KY) last October, they attempted to revive Hamlet on a stage that, no matter how foreign it may have seemed to the play itself, became home to a wide variety of interplays and rites de passages between the Shakesperean real and imaginary worlds. The production blended theatrical conventions and cinematographic techniques and thus succeeded in immersing the spectator in a rendition of Hamlet that was all the more fascinating, surreal, or even hyperrealistic, as suggested by a recent review:
In their two papers given at UQAM, Kirby Malone and Gail Scott will survey a range of theories and practices related to those mixed-media forms. They will explain and elaborate on the impact of new technologies on the traditional stage, following their own experimentations as stage and new media designers within their company. For the past five years, they have been involved in the creation and the definition of the « live movie », as a synthesis of cinema, theatre and music targeting a « multi-sensory » audience. They use extremely sophisticated digital projections and sound technologies, as well as narrative techniques drawn from the cinema such as flash-backs, lip-sync and slow motion. This new form is characterized by vibrating stage images and aural environments in which live actors, singers and musicians interact with virtual performers and move through projected universes in a constant wavering between the real and the virtual. I n f o r m a t i o n :
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