Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
Stage | The Guardian: An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one.
Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests.
The Value Of Radios For The Tech Team
Pro Sound Web: Whenever I hang out with fellow production guys at concerts, or at many larger churches, the tech guys always have radios. Usually compact Motorola or Kenwood units with those cool clip-on mics over their shoulder.
While I certainly saw the usefulness of those radios, I figured we didn’t need them for our church. We’re not really that big, and the productions we do aren’t that involved. Then came Vacation Bible School (VBS)…
Why Creativity Thrives In The Dark
Co.Design | business + design: Great artists and original thinkers often seem instinctually drawn to the darker hours. The writer Toni Morrison once told The Paris Review that watching the night turn to day, with a cup of coffee in hand, made her feel like a "conduit" of creativity. "It's not being in the light," she said, "it's being there before it arrives." Whether they join Morrison before dawn or get going after dusk, many of history's most imaginative minds have been inspired by dim lighting.
‘Zarkana’ artist injured after slipping from ‘Wheel of Death’
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 | 12:27 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun: Less than a week after being issued a half-dozen citations from OSHA in the death of “Ka” artist Sarah Guillot-Guyard, Cirque du Soleil has reported that an artist was injured Friday night during “Zarkana,” the production at Aria.
Posted today just before 10 a.m. on the company’s Facebook page was this report of the incident: “During the 7 p.m. performance of ‘Zarkana’ last night, an artist performing in the ‘Wheel of Death’ act slipped and fell off the wheel. The show was halted and the artist was transported to UMC, where he is in stable condition and is expected to be released from the hospital in the next few days.”
Cirque du Soleil, MGM Grand Hotel cited for safety violations in death of aerialist
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Cirque du Soleil Nevada and the MGM Grand hotel-casino on Tuesday were cited for a total of nine safety and record-keeping violations in the death this summer of an aerialist during a performance of “Ka.”
The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Cirque du Soleil performer Sarah Guillot-Guyard also was somewhat responsible for the accident that claimed her life, saying her “rapid ascent” in the show’s high-energy climax played a role in the equipment failure June 29.
Guillot-Guyard, 31, died when the wire rope from which she was suspended broke, causing her to fall 94 feet. She landed below the stage floor, out of the view of the audience.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
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What I find so odd about this article is that over the summer, I had no idea that this fatality occurred. I would assumer that an event this tragic would be heavily publicized. Perhaps, MGM and Ka went through extraneous efforts to quiet the press on this event for it would undoubtedly negatively effect ticket sales. My other question is who is to blame for the fatality. The article states that the cord would not have torn if the aerialist ascended the stage at the appropriate speed. At a first glance it seems as if the fault is unfortunately on the performer, but perhaps it is Ka's fault for not implementing the right amount of training and safety seminars to prevent such a catastrophe. Regardless of who is to blame, I hope that the show will fix its safety hazards and never have a fatality again.
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