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Re: The WWP event "Performing Arts" descriptive essay ...
Luciano 2009-Aug-23 02:05:00
Very inspiring Swovelin, thank you!
Luciano Bergesch
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Pat Swovelin <#removed#>wrote:
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> The theme "Performing Arts" includes the traditional music, drama and
> dance that we think of as the performing arts (Wikipedia article
> http://tinyurl.com/mvc5h) but it also includes many other things.
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> It's the girl strutting her stuff on the beach, the traffic cop in the
> middle of the intersection wearing white gloves directing traffic with a
> flourish or the guy at work telling yet another fishing story ("I swear
> it was THIS big!") by the water cooler. Kids showing off for their
> friends on the playground, the guy hawking products on a street corner,
> the salesman at a used car lot, trial attorneys (although you'd never
> get to shoot in a court room). An athlete celebrating a score during a
> game, the muscle-bound guy working out to impress the ladies, models on
> the runway at a fashion show.
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> It's the actors waiting in the wings, ready to go on. It's the sushi
> chef with his flashing knives. It's the High School marching band or
> the ballet dancers endlessly practicing so no one makes a mistake when
> everyone is watching. It's the garage band playing at a
> local/county/state fair or an ethnic dance troupe performing in the
> street in their colorful costumes. It's a command performance for the
> Queen. It's the school play.
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> A politician giving a speech trying to drum up votes or the docent
> explaining something in a museum. It's the Professor that all of the
> students want to take a class with because he's so animated when he
> teaches. It's the actor rehearsing his lines in front of the bathroom
> mirror (to be "bathroom ready" when he shows up onset/onstage the next
> day). It's gymnasts practicing their routine so they can "Wow!" the
> judges in the next competition.
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> People are always performing for other people either consciously or
> unconsciously, so the possibilities are endless. With this event we'll
> get a real sampling of what people are like all over the planet, ranging
> from a performance at the White House to the man on the street tipping
> his hat to the ladies he passes.
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> But for those of you that don't have access to or are reluctant to shoot
> people performing, Performing Arts is more than just that. A *lot*
> more. It's all of the things "behind the curtain" that we don't see
> that make the performance possible. It's the theatre itself. It's the
> props. It's the wardrobe. It's the stage crew. It's the writer
> slaving away at a keyboard pounding out The Next Big Play (who is he
> kidding?).
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> It's the cameras and all of the lighting and grip equipment. It's the
> people working the sound and light boards during the performance. It's
> the ticket-taker in the ticket booth and the ushers waiting in the lobby
> for the doors to open and the people cleaning up after the show. It's
> the billboard hawking the current show or The Next Big Play (maybe this
> *is* The One). It's the venue where the performance happens. The
> roadies setting up or taking down the stage as they travel from city to
> city touring with the band are also a part of the Performing Arts. It's
> the diesel truck caravan that moves everything from city to city. It's
> the band's tour bus. It's all of the people shooting a movie on the
> next street.
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> For venues think your city park, a small town theatre or big stuff like
> The Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center for the Performing
> Arts, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a TV or radio studio, concert
> halls. Sports fields like baseball stadiums, football (round and
> not-so-round) stadiums, tennis courts, golf courses, gymnasiums, ice
> skating rinks. How about ancient sites like Stonehenge, the temples on
> top of Mayan pyramids, the Coliseum in Rome, the Hellenic theatre at
> Epidaurus, Tiananmen Square, the town square in an old European city
> (OK, they're not ancient just old).
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> Keep in mind what the Bard of Avon said:
> "All the world's a stage,
> And all the men and women merely players;
> They have their exits and their entrances;
> And one man in his time plays many parts."
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> The event dates are:
> Shooting period: September 17-22 (the Equinox occurs on September 22
> at 21:18 UTC)
> Editing period: September 17-30
> Event goes live: October 2nd
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> This will be the first WWP event where the focus is on people instead of
> places or things.
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> Go for it!
>
> Pat Swovelin
> World Wide Panorama Event Coordinator
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> Get out there an shoot some panoramas!
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