A very cool way to integrate technology and the arts. We are finding that there are new ways to attract people's attention and interest. Theaters of the senses are becoming a reality.
"Digitally manipulated images and scenery now make it possible for Alice to swim in a virtual pool of tears, do battle with a virtual pack of cards or tumble down a virtual rabbithole."
While technology frees up the story ballet to go wherever it wants, it also has the potential to liberate choreographers from relying simply on body language. In his version of Alice, Christopher Wheeldon and his designer, Bob Crowley, projected words from Lewis Carroll's text on to the stage to create one of the work's strongest images – the solo where Alice dances alone, with the existential questions posed by the caterpillar looping threateningly around her head. And De Frutos was able to use a faux television broadcast to deliver the one undanceable moment in his story – the king's announcement that he will give his daughter and half his kingdom to the person who succeeds in creating "the most incredible thing". That concept would previously have tied a choreographer up in knots, or taken a paragraph of programme notes. In the digital world, it can be communicated briskly, wittily and efficiently.
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