It has been a busy week for me. All the entries this week were started on the day prior to the time stamp and finished after midnight. In the interests of getting to bed a little quicker, I want to offer you a short entry with this very cool video from TED.
Joshua Prince-Ramus, an architect on the Wyly Theatre of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas speaks on the process they went through to create a space that is able to recreate itself. In this building, the seating and the stage actually fly in and out providing as few as two people the ability to shift the space into multiple configurations. In addition, an audience can either enter through the lobby or directly through one of the pivoting exterior walls.
Though he admits it would take a little too long to do in a 15 minute intermission, he suggests a show could start in a thrust configuration exit to an intermission and have the audience return to a second act in arena configuration–with the audience entering and exiting through different modes of egress.
All of this designed with the aim of the building serving the needs of the artist rather than the artist fitting the work to the building.
All very cool. And *sigh* very expensive, I am sure.