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How TikTok Is Changing Stage Design
WIRED: “You can have the world’s best idea, but if it doesn’t fit on the back of a truck then it’s a nonstarter,” says Ray Winkler, who’s been loading ideas onto the backs of trucks for close to 30 years now.12 productions break $1 million as Broadway box office sees increase
www.broadwaynews.com: In the first full week of October, Broadway experienced a box office boost. Twelve of the 26 productions currently running grossed over $1 million, with “The Lion King” breaking $2 million.This Bizarre Phenomenon Occurs When People Are Listening To The Same Music
www.inverse.com: Imagine you’re at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour jamming away to “Anti-Hero” to your heart’s content. Looking over the sea of fellow Swifties, you feel a camaraderie — not just over ex-lovers and grappling with personal insecurities — but of harmony and synchrony. As it turns out, this synchronous, almost hivemind response to T-Swizzle’s music, or any other artists or musical genres, may be a real phenomenon called induction synchrony.Hollywood still gets Indigenous costumes wrong. Carmen Thompson wants
www.fastcompany.com: Carmen Thompson, a Ditidaht/Kyuquot/Coast Salish award-winning costume designer, writer, and showrunner, describes a tense moment on the set of Bones of Crows (2022), a film written and directed by Marie Clements and playing now as a series on Canada’s CBC, about a Cree woman and her family’s survival from and fight against the racism, starvation, and abuse in Canada’s residential schools.Broadway Green Alliance Will Celebrate 15th Anniversary With 'Bicycle-Powered' Concert
Playbill: Broadway Green Alliance will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a special "bike-powered" concert October 23 at 5 PM in the New Amsterdam Room at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Limited, free tickets will be available for the in-person event, which will also stream live via Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley's Stars in the House series.
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This article is such a perfect example of why representation is so important. If this costume designer had not been on this set they would have never been able to provide the insight as to why their school uniforms would not have been dirty. And because of the costumes designers life experience and that of her family, she will be able to properly communicate a true representation of what it was like. A lot of people outside the entertainment industry do consciously pick up on the subtle details of a dirty or clean costume, but it will affect what they take away from the scene whether they realize it or not. I applaud this designer for pushing for what they knew to be necessary. I think it is incredibly important to know what it is you stand for and I hope that one day I will be able to bring to my designs the integrity this designer brings to hers, obviously in different ways but I still hope to put as much thought and care into it as this designer does
This is so incredibly interesting. I have only had the pleasure of taking a psychology class once, and so anytime I can get myself on anything psychology related I will. Especially if it deeply influences the things I am curious about. I have always noted that at concerts and performances you can feel connected with the crowd around you, but I thought that that just had something to do with the humans natural inclination to belong to a group. But the idea that tis new study actually shows that our bodies can “sync” up to the music of a performance and that our heart rate, breath and sync to the music along with our fellow audience members is fascinating. Iyt goes beyond anything I thought it could have and it's so interesting. I love how this explains and gives a deeper meaning to crowd mentality and I love how it shows just how influential live performance and entertainment can be.
I genuinely haven't really thought of how much the iphone and what you view on it would affect stage design. I have no idea why I wouldn’t, being a part of Gen Z and all. But still, it is a new thought for me and an incredibly influential one at that. What is really interesting is the new mindset that not only welcomes filming of performances, but catering to hoe the iphone views them in how we design. This article speaks a lot about content and how a show now can be viewed possibly by millions (or at least glimpse of the show) through a smartphone and social media apps like tik tok. I think it is right to assume that a show is now not only judged by the people who have attended but also by those who view glimpses of it on tik-tok or instagram. My favorite brain food that this article gave was “the way the dialog between fans and artists has shifted.” It's something really important to think about and I think it will be exceedingly important if I ever design within the concert industry.
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