Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Meet the Choreographic Interface Designer Who Brings Her Dance Knowledge to Google
Dance Magazine: Designer and choreographer Lauren Bedal has one of the most futuristic dance jobs out there. An Ohio State-trained dancer and dance-maker, she is a human-computer interaction designer. Bedal uses her dancerly expertise to help companies like Google think through how people move their bodies, and designs the choreography that we use to navigate our phones, computers, and other, still-emerging technologies.
People of color in Bay Area theater demand bold steps toward racial justice in online documents
Datebook: “We See You, White American Theatre.”
That’s the title of a document that appeared online following the death of George Floyd — and after theaters across the country started posting statements on social media in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
Year of the Stage Manager
HowlRound Theatre Commons: Stage managers typically operate in the shadows, committed first and foremost to what is happening onstage. An occupation people used to fall into, stage managers are now setting their sights on the field as early as grade school. For many of us, we cannot imagine doing anything else. The work is often thrilling. We are the first ones in and the last ones out. The personalities, the wants, the needs, the cues, the pressure, the conflict, the resolution, the spike tape, the half-hour call—if it was not worth it, we would not do it. But the truth is: we can hardly agree on what it is we actually all do.
The future of experiences, according to a theme park designer
www.fastcompany.com: Fri (pronounced “Free”) Forjindam is co-owner and chief development officer for Mycotoo, a global entertainment development and production agency that creates award-winning destinations, from theme parks and live events to museums and immersive brand experiences worldwide. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry.
Can laughter be lethal?: Dr. Linsey Marr on aerosol transmission of COVID
DC Metro Theater Arts: I first learned of Dr. Linsey Marr when I read a startling opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times July 30: As “a civil and environmental engineer who studies how viruses and bacteria spread through the air,” she wrote, “I believe that the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via aerosols matters much more than has been officially acknowledged to date.”
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