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How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.
The Wall Street Journal's take on Downloading Dance
The Wall Street Journal has a great article that features digital technologies and what is being done to engage audiences in the dance and opera world via TenduTV.
December's American Theatre Magazine and January's Stage Directions feature OntheBoards.tv
In a time when you can access nearly any film via Netflix or YouTube, theatre lags staggeringly behind, rooted in another century. But just because theatre is an ancient art form doesn't mean it needs to thumb its nose at today's technology, especially when it comes to archiving....On the Boards, a Seattle not-for-profit that presents international dance, theatre and music, as well as work by Northwest artists, has seized upon this dormant opportunity.
Help celebrate our 1st Birthday!
January 21, 2011 marks OntheBoards.tv’s 1st birthday and we want to celebrate by offering you $1 streams of any video on our site.
Simply choose which videos you want to have 24 hour streaming access, begin the check-out process and use the coupon code “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” to get the discount.
Now with added Rizzo
Just added! The revered French choreographer Christian Rizzo joins the OntheBoards.tv docket. This incredible artist is redefining contemporary dance, and you can experience it right on your computer in hi-def quality. In the performance b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau., Rizzo manipulates the sleek stage as European dancer Julie Guibert performs stylized gestures that explore the harnessed energy of a dancer and the 16th century sculpture, The Nymph of Fontainebleau.
Lane and Wayne discuss the launch of OntheBoards.tv
Dr. Wayne Ashley, founding director of FuturePerfect, interviews OtB artistic director Lane Czaplinski about the launch of OntheBoards.tv | Listen [mp3]
In the Press
The New York Times writes about the launch of OntheBoards.tv (Jan 24, 2010) | Read the full article
Artist-in-Residence Michelle Ellsworth
Part of enjoying any live art experience is taking in the energy of the theater, the lobby and the audience. During the first year of OntheBoards.tv, we invited performance artist Michelle Ellsworth to help set the tone for watching OtB.tv and provide the playfulness and intelligence that we believe is characteristic of our audiences. Check out all the videos she made for us.
b.c, janvier 1545, fontainebleau.
A modernist cabinet of curiosities becomes the grounds for a work created by l’enfant terrible Christian Rizzo and inspired by famed European dancer Julie Guibert. Rizzo manipulates the sleek stage as Guibert performs stylized gestures that explore the harnessed energy of a dancer and the 16th century sculpture, The Nymph of Fontainebleau. Featuring lighting designer Caty Olive and original music by Gerome Nox.