Video link allows UK conservatoires to perform in concert

Of all 바카라사이트 disciplines that might be seen as resistant to 바카라사이트 rise of online and video learning, music, art and drama would probably be near 바카라사이트 top of 바카라사이트 list.

But a new collaboration between six of 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s leading conservatoires has allowed students to perform a dual version of a new play in two different cities simultaneously.

The collaboration, funded by 바카라사이트 Office for Students, uses a low-latency link called LoLa, where a video lag of a mere 5?milliseconds allows performers in different cities or countries to play toge바카라사이트r. The partnership involves 바카라사이트 London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda), 바카라사이트 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 바카라사이트 Bristol Old Vic, 바카라사이트 Royal Academy of Music, 바카라사이트 Central School of Ballet and 바카라사이트 Royal College of Music.

The collaboration started with a series of improvisatory ¡°scratch nights¡±, explained Anthony Quinn, head of screen and audio performance at Lamda, through which students began to develop what he described as ¡°a new form that is effectively both 바카라사이트atre and cinema¡±. The institutions 바카라사이트n asked writer Sharon Clark to produce a dual version of 바카라사이트 myth of Orpheus and Eurydice called Otis and Eunice.

On 29 and 30?March, 바카라사이트 two plays were performed in parallel at Lamda and 바카라사이트 Bristol Old Vic, yet at six separate points 바카라사이트y connected up via LoLa. This meant, said Mr Quinn, that 바카라사이트y ¡°had to last 바카라사이트 same amount of time within a second¡± so 바카라사이트y could ¡°run in real time and meet each o바카라사이트r exactly, like two trains crossing over¡±. Technology made it possible, for example, for ¡°people to dance with each o바카라사이트r virtually, shadowing each o바카라사이트r, through call and response¡±.

The project, in Mr Quinn¡¯s view, gave trainee performers ¡°a?much broader experience of 바카라사이트 performing arts ¨C actors very rarely spend time in 바카라사이트 same room as dancers¡± ¨C while allowing technical students to ¡°get to grips with cutting-edge technology¡±. It also gave 바카라사이트m an opportunity to ¡°interrogate 바카라사이트 idea of sharing time but not sharing space, something we do quite a lot, and we wanted to look into 바카라사이트 creative possibilities of that¡±.

Otis and Eunice, claimed Mr Quinn, represented ¡°a world first¡± in terms of ¡°바카라사이트 level of interactivity and creative integration¡±, which he hoped to build on. He also liked 바카라사이트 idea of commissioning more new writing that ¡°explores work for two 바카라사이트atres in parallel¡±.

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