Check out this sweet online comic about OtB alum Reggie Watts!  Created by Seth Kushner, as part of the Culture Pop series. Be sure to flip through the whole story.

READ THE COMIC HERE

An Associate Editor at American Theatre magazine, Rob Weinert-Kendt ponders online video performance and productions in his personal blog.  He mentions NT Live, the Metropolitan Opera, and OntheBoards.tv.

His biggest question?

"I have to wonder: Why doesn't this happen more often with theater?" 

 What do you think?

Following the close of Gloria's Cause its been announced that Dayna Hanson has been chosen as 1 of 50 artists in the US to receive $50,000 from the United States Artists Fellowship. The grant will go towards the production of Improvement Club, a "film tracing the fictional creation of the actual musical." Congrats to Dayna!

OtB's Charles Smith snapped a few shots of Josephine's Echopraxia (Marissa Niederhauser) during her intermission installation:

[Photos by Charles Smith]

We've got just the thing to brighten your holiday this year!  A lonely Christmas song by OtB alum Young Jean Lee.  

Some lyrics:

I wake up Christmas morning
No presents and no tree
No friends or neighbors calling
No loving family
I pour a bowl of cereal and turn on the TV
A hundred different channels
A hundred shows for me.

Click here for the full audio.

Quality online video of performance dance continues pop up all over the place - check out Motion Bank - a notation database for dance.  

A 4 year long project by the Forsythe Company, a piece of digital "sheet music" is created directly from choreography.  William Forsythe's first online project is Synchronous Objects, breaking down his piece One Flat Thing, reproduced.

Explore the site at: http://motionbank.org/

This Sunday night Catherine Cabeen and her collaborators will be throwing a party and fundraiser at Havana for Into the Void. Music from collaborators and dance from the company will be on view to give a little sneak peek of what they're working on for the world premiere in April.

by Byron Au Yong

What better time in history than in our currently tea drenched political landscape, littered with the detritus of the American Revolution, could choreographer Dayna Hanson find an audience willing to throw themselves overboard for an eccentric piece of choreographic historical revisionism?

A couple previews of Gloria's Cause have come out recently:

"Behind the Scenes at Hanson's Revolution" - Seattle Dances