#i buy tickets to our national ballet every year!!!

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hi clari!! do you happen to be interested in ballet at all? i’ve been doing ballet for years now and i’ve been curious if of your iterations of touya would let reader be a dancer, for example a dance major in college? it’s such a “cute and girly” thing that i think they might like it but at the same time i could see them getting jealous of any potential duets with other men or how “revealing” the uniforms are

but either way i’d love to know what majors you originally have each of them doing since most, if not all, of your stories have the reader doing college?

hope you’re doing well!! <33

hi anon!! <3 oooh i actually love ballet so much and i will forever regret talking my mom out of enrolling me in it when i was 8!!! EEE ehehe it’s funny u ask actually because once upon a time i was writing a ballet au with dabi! i dunno if i’ll ever finish it tho hahaha >.< so since all of my readers are already enrolled in university by the time they meet touya/dabi, there’s no way he’d be able to control what their major is; they already decided on it on their own and most are at least a year or two into their studies when they first meet him, so he isn’t able to decide what it is they’re studying (which means yes, they’d be forced to ‘allow’ her to continue her dance major! no matter how much they don’t like it! they won’t be changing programs simply because their overbearing, overprotective, over-possessive boyfriend doesn’t like it).

that being said, you’re 100% right! my touyas/dabis would be totally torn between loving it because it’s so beautiful and awe-inspiring (they’re totally enraptured—enchanted—when they watch her perform) and being extremely jealous that literally anyone else gets to see their girl in such beautiful costumes dancing such beautiful numbers and that anyone gets to fucking touch their girl at all. out of my three main iterations, touya-nii would be the worst with his possessiveness and would definitely demand she never dance a pas de deux with anyone (despite the fact that she wants to, that it’s good for her career + exposure, or that her grade depends on it. tnii is way too selfish to give a fuck about any of that, and he’d much rather she stay in the corps forever—in his mind, he’s like why would she ever need to be prima anyway? when she has me? when i can provide for her? etc.)

good question! so their majors are intentionally left vague so you, the real reader, can project whatever you’d like onto them! in my mind, they study art of some form (probably literature and/or film since that’s what i studied HAHAHA but i also love the idea of studying fine arts or dance like u said!!!), with the exception of bmb reader, who in my mind studies psychology. but again, feel free to imagine them studying whatever you’d like to! i hope you’re doing fabulous, sweetpea! <3 thank u for ur question!!!

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.  .  .  𝑩𝑨𝑳𝑨𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑶𝑭 𝑼𝑺  (PT18) |  

— — jung jaehyun is the beloved captain of your university’s basketball team. you’re a freshman in the school ballet company and somehow get roped into giving him dance lessons. the issue is that your brother is lee taeyong aka jaehyun’s on-court rival, who broke his little sister’s heart. that’s where you, revenge, and a little bet come into play.

MAY 24TH. 7:45 PM KST.

"are you fucking crazy?”

if taeyong could, he would have done more than grab jaehyun by the collar and pin him up against the door. the other male grunted at the contact against the weighted, steel door. meanwhile, sooyoung was nervously scanning around the corner in case anybody were to waltz on in and witness the scene.

jaehyun’s jaw tightened. “just let me talk to her, taeyong. this has nothing to do with you.”

“it has everything to do with me!” taeyong’s voice boomed, echoing throughout. “you messed with my family! you’re a lucky bastard, you know that? if we didn’t have our game coming up, i’d beat the living shit out of you!” the way his upper lip curled up in disgust, the way his voice shook with rage, was near animalistic. 

“i thought you guys were just going to talk,” said a nervous sooyoung, who’d been flinching at every one of his words. 

at that, taeyong slowly let go of his grip on his rival. there was no doubt in his mind that he was angered, but his reason for pulling jaehyun aside needed him to be calm. he nodded at sooyoung in response.

jaehyun eyed him. “i’m stupid. i know that.” there was nothing but guilt written all across his face. “i came here to fix my wrongs and i even told her beforehand that i would be here.” taeyong scoffed at this, proceeding to mutter something about his sister completely ignoring all of her texts.

jaehyun wasn’t even sure what he was going to say. lucas called him immediately after her visit on two nights ago and since then, he couldn’t even imagine how she must’ve felt. she’d stopped answering his calls and texts and did every single thing possible in order to physically avoid him.

under the dim lighting of the hallway, the serpents’ captain looked terrible. he was paler than he already was, his stature weak with little energy, and each word he managed to get out was strained. every little thing about her haunted him and every emotion that she was feeling, were emotions that weighed heavy on his conscious. 

“so, was everything you told me at the party just lies?” taeyong couldn’t even bear to look at him, knowing full well that his temper could be ready to explode at any given moment if he did so.

“no,” jaehyun shot back. “what i said about your sister was real. i really did fall for her.” saying those words out loud for the second time was harsher than the first, yet no reluctance whatsoever like the first. 

between the two men, sooyoung’s mouth formed an ‘o’ at the words. she took a closer look at jaehyun and realizing the restlessness, she also saw the raw honesty. looking down at her feet, she decided to pull out her phone and turned away from the men as they continued their conversation.

“i know!” 

the outburst surprised jaehyun.

taeyong grabbed his hair. “a lot has happened between us and i let it all slide because i saw the way you talked with my sister, the way you talked about her. i thought we reached peace that day at my house because of her. and you know what?” he said. “i still believe it. i believed it then when you told me how you felt about her and still now. that’s why i don’t fucking understand why you would do this to her.”

the only thing the other man could do was look down in shame. he had no response for that because there wasn’t one. there was no explanation as to why he couldn’t have just called it off. it was embarrassing, jaehyun couldn’t even feel a backbone on him anymore.

“i could tear you apart right now, i wish i could, i’m not even thinking about nationals on tuesday anymore.” he met jaehyun’s eyes again and only saw red, so he shut them quickly. “but, i won’t. you’re going to fix this because i promised you that i wouldn’t stand in the way of you and my sister.”

all of a sudden, sooyoung piped in. “but, not tonight!” the two men looked at her. “hello? it’s showcase day, you are not going throw her off her game.”

“yeah, it’s ‘showcase day,’“ taeyong made some lame jazz hands to mock her, which she playfully rolled her eyes to in response. “i’m going to go back to the audience. sooyoung’s right, you should probably leave.”

he started to walk away, leaving a quieted jaehyun in his thoughts and a now relieved sooyoung. although he didn’t say it out loud, probably too pissed off from the situation, taeyong wanted to tell jaehyun that he was rooting for them. he hurt his sister, but it didn’t make much effort to see how much they liked each other and how good they were together. there was some forgiveness in his heart for that reason.

for johnny? not so much.

when you finally found yourself backstage after the show, you could barely feel the pain in your feet.  emerging from a group hug with your fellow dancers, all you hear was ringing in your ear and the buzz of adrenaline from being under the stage lights. sooyoung couldn’t wipe the smile off her face.

“holy shit, that was amazing!” she gushed, squeezing you tightly in her arms again.

from over her shoulder, you saw a very familiar face. you wanted to cry at the sight, feeling even more emotional knowing that he’d witnessed the solo that you’d been working all month on. he knew just how much passion you poured into ballet and saw it all pay off for you.

taeyong pulled you into a warm embrace. “i’m so proud of you.”

you thought your eyes were playing tricks on you when you aw your brother in the crowd and ignored it, since you didn’t even invite him in time for him to be able to buy tickets for the showcase. there was a smile on sooyoung’s face that seemed to hold a bit of sadness.

“how did you. .  .” you gaped up at taeyong. the whole day you were regretting not saving him a ticket in time, since you’d effectively avoided him for a period of time following the argument at the frat party.

he shook his head. “lucas gave me his ticket. said something about how you’d rather want me here than him.” taeyong chuckled, but his smile faded when he saw the look on your face.

the two of you moved to a more private corner backstage where there weren’t dancers stripping down naked or people running around to clean up the stage. he leaned against the wall, sitting down, while you sat down across from him to unravel your shoes. 

you thought about how this was the first time in years that lucas didn’t come and see you perform. it made you upset, you weren’t going to lie, since he was your and sooyoung’s number one supporter. if there was anyone that you were going to forgive first, it was going to be him. maybe it was out of guilt for the things you said to him last night, but in all honesty, he was like your brother. you and taeyong made up so easily and you would do the same for lucas in a heart beat.

 there was also a lack of jaehyun in the crowd, but you didn’t dwell on that for too long.

“so, someone told you.” you didn’t plan for this. your voice was surprisingly shaky, though you tried to take a deep breath in order to calm yourself down before your emotions could escalate further. 

there wasn’t enough strength in you to be able to talk about jaehyun out loud. you effectively avoided talking about it over texts or calls, hell, you stopped answering both altogether because it seemed like that it was the only thing that people ever wanted to talk about with you. at least earlier in the evening, sooyoung managed to take the hint when you worked up the courage you slowly start talking to her again and she not once brought him up. 

taeyong’s eyes softened. “hey. it’s okay.” he consoled. “come here. cry all you want.”

without hesitation, you joined your older brother in another embrace. this time, your head was buried in his chest and you let out loud sobs that you’d been masking with adrenaline for the showcase or pretend happiness over seulgi inviting you out.. these sobs were ones of feeling rejected, of feeling insignificant. you completely crumbled into pieces. 

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The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo dancing star ‘Elayne Seaton’

In 1950, Edinburgh Tattoo is an event steeped in traditions. Every year in August, the massed pipes and drums march over the narrow drawbridge, a lone piper plays high upon Edinburgh Castle’s ramparts and the national anthem is performed by military bands. However, each annual outing of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo offers a unique show, with a different cast of troupes invited from countries across the world.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2020  will start from the 7-29th August of this year. Edinburgh Military Tattoo is just closer to its 70th birthday that are celebrating in August 2020. Tattoo fans who want to join this iconic festival can buy Edinburgh Military Tattoo Tickets from our most consistent and unfailing online platform.

Edinburgh Military Tattoo’s  has a global reputation that it sits high on the bucket list of many a dancer, piper or military performer. There’s a special kudos of having ‘done Edinburgh’ (2009 with RAF Pipes and Drums, since you ask) and its gravitas continues attracting new participants to be part of the heritage and to draw preceding cast members back to the esplanade.

One returning performer is Elayne Seaton (21), a Highland dancer with Aileen Robertson School of Dancing, who made her Edinburgh Tattoo debut at past year’s East Meets West themed Tattoo.

I started Highland dancing at the age of three, after trying ballet and having watched Highland dancing on television.

Elayne asked her dance teacher if she, could teach me the dancing with the quilts on! At the age of eight I began training in Highland with my current teacher and dance director of Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Aileen Robertson. She gave me the opportunity to excel in competitive Highland dancing and passed on her love of choreography to me.’

Dancing CV of Elayne Seaton includes tattoos in Crete, Berlin, Virginia, Inverness, Basel, and she performed with dancers from all disciplines during the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Elayne was one of 20 dancers chosen from Scotland to perform at Edinburgh Tattoo tour to New Zealand and Australia at the start of 2016 and one of eight Edinburgh dancers to appear in the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle, and you can appreciate she’s a dancer in high demand.

what makes the Tattoo so special to Elayne Seaton?

‘Performing in front of a home crowd makes me so proud to be Scottish. The setting right there on the castle esplanade offers an unrivalled experience for all the performers.’

Every year the Tattoo welcomes Highland dancers from across the globe for a combined routine, with just a matter of days to pull it together.

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Tessa Blackman, hand-to-hand and acrobalance artist, Josh & Tess, Living Room Circus

American circus artist Tessa Blackman – who is from Chicago – trained as a dancer from the age of five. She specialised in classical ballet at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and also did tap, jazz and contemporary. She went on train at Chicago’s Second City and has also studied holistic energy and worked with InVision, a school of psychic abilities.

In 2016 she graduated from the National Centre for Circus Arts in London with her hand-to-hand partner Joshua Frazer. As Josh & Tess, their acts are an enticing fusion of ballet and circus. They are members of Living Room Circus and appear in its show The Penguin and I from 29 June – 2 July at The Dairy at Springhill Farm, in Forest Row, Sussex. It runs again on 25 July at Jacksons Lane in London, and the duo appear in Simple Cypher’s Cypher Stories on 26 July at the same venue during its Postcards 2017 season. Tessa chats to Liz Arratoon.

The Widow Stanton: Any there any other performers in your family? Tessa Blackman: Yes. My mum, Suzanne Lek, was a prima ballerina. My great, great uncle was Nicolas Legat, who was a really famous Russian dancer. He was kind of like in the beginning of the whole Vaganova technique. Back in the day there was the Legat School of Ballet and the Royal Ballet and they were kind of rivals. So my mum went there from ten to 18. But then Legat got shut down. She worked for the London Festival Ballet and then moved to Yugoslavia and worked in a company there. She also worked at Pineapple Dance Studio and then actually first brought Pineapple to New York. My dad isn’t a performer but he loves the arts.

Is your mother Russian? No. Our familly line is Russian but she’s actually Welsh… well, it’s all mxed up because my grandparents lived in Holland but when the Nazis invaded they moved to Wales, cos we’re Jewish. My dad is from Chicago, born and bred.

Did you always want to be a dancer? Yes. When I was five my mother was teaching and I said, ‘Please can I come and take some classes with you?’. There was never pressure. She never pushed me to dance but it was kind of, ‘If you’re gonna do it, you’re gonna do it well.’ Then she pushed me pretty hard, but in a good way. It was tough at times and I danced from five years old up until 19. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts boarding school for ballet and yeah, I always wanted to be a dancer. That was my thing.

So why aren’t you a dancer? Yes, exactly. When I was 18, I had a really bad back injury; I had a herniated disc and that was the end of my ballet career. I kind of took about four years out. All the doctors wanted me to have surgery but there was something instinctual in me that told me not to do it, and I said I didn’t want it. I did holistic therapies and everything I could and essentially healed myself over time. During that time I went to art school, started painting, did a lot of energy work…

Did you do acting at Second City? Isn’t it an improv place? Yeah, they have a five-level improvisational programme and I did that for a year right after NCSA.

What made you move on to circus? Basically when I was living in Chicago and doing all these crazy things, I started getting romantically involved with a Circus du Soleil performer, who was a dancer in Dralion. [Laughs] I was like, ‘This is awesome!’. I was going to all his different shows around the States and he took me backstage one day and I got to meet all the performers. I was talking to them and was like, ‘How do you do this? This looks insane!’ They were like: “Well, you can train your muscles just like you train your muscles for dance.” They gave me this conditioning programme that I started doing on my own. 

Then because I have a UK passport, I decided that I was gonna buy a one-way ticket and move to England. I did that – it worked with our relationship because he was travelling everywhere too – and I researched where I could take circus classes. I found Circus Space, which the National Centre for Circus Arts was at the time. It said, ‘Degree auditons in four weeks’. So I was like, ‘Maybe I should do this’. [Laughs] I trained for four weeks and I got in, which I still can’t believe. I couldn’t believe it happened because I had only really been physically training hard and getting back into shape since my injury probably for six months prior to the audition. I did a dance performance for my audition piece; I’d never done any circus before, I couldn’t even do a handstand. [Laughs]

This is marvellous, almost like running away with the circus… Yeah, I always describe circus to people as like one of those claw machines at fairgrounds that pick up toys. [Makes a claw hand motion] Circus just sort of picks you up and you’re like, ‘Oh, how did I get here?’. Everyone’s story is just completely different. What made you choose hand-to-hand? I was trying a bunch of disciplines and because I had no gymnastics background I had zero upper-body strength. I found aerial quite challenging. Then I started doing acrobalance and me and Josh paired up and started working together. It was really interesting, because we were similar in size and I was basing him a lot and he was basing me, and I realised that actually hand-to-hand was closer to dance than I thought and it felt really good. And we were dating, so it seems as if my romantic life takes me in the direction of my art forms [laughs]. We just dove into it together and started training and we loved it.

Your degree piece, Bound, was so distinctive and really impressive. How would you describe your style? Where we started is kind of like gender neutrality and not being confined to our genders in the way we express ourselves as artists. So we wanted to bring in a fluid movement quality and not have that be distinctly feminine and bring in a raw quality and not have that just be male; how we can both move in-between that language together and display a woman strongly and maybe display a man femininely.

Since our devised piece we’ve developing a lot with the knotted ropes – Shibari – moving more towards this raw, more aggressive style at the minute. I’m seeing that Shibari is getting more incorporated into circus now, which is really cool [see our interview with Hanna Moisala]; the whole self-suspension thing, having it be an aerial apparatus. We haven’t explored that as much but we’ve been using more the harness work.

Would you agree there has been quite a move to having women as bases? Is there a point to prove? Yeah, absolutely. I think for years we’ve been in that space as women of trying to prove a point, but for me I like to think of it, in respect to the feminist movement, that we’re not trying to be men, it’s more that we’re trying to display our strengths. The difficulty is that people are going: “Oh, you’re just trying to do the man’s job.” But it’s like, ‘No, actually these jobs are equal and we’re trying to show you that we are strong as well, that we are just as strong, we are built to do things like that, too’. It’s like: “Female bases, what’s this?” But it’s super-exciting to see and everyone loves to see it. I think it’s amazing that it’s happening.

How hard is your ‘iron-jaw’ move? [Laughs] I think that like with every circus trick, it’s an illusion to a certain extent; you have the strength but there are ways of making it safe for your body. I would say it’s probably more like a neck hang than it is genuinely from my jaw.

You might be interested in the aerialist Miss La La… but tell us about Josh and why you like working with him? A lot of reasons. We’re basically best friends. We’re not together any more in a relationship so that’s been a difficult transition but the fact is that when you work so close with someone you become best friends. We were living together for three years, we saw each other 24 hours a day so I think my relationship with him is unlike any other I’ve had with anybody. It’s probably one of the most special relationships I’ve had.

The way I kind of describe our creative process sometimes is at times I throw up on the table and then he cleans it up [laughs, a lot]. I’m kind of like, ‘Wah, wah, wah, here it is, this idea, this idea’, and he’s like: “OK, but how can we make that all work and structure it together.” It feels like a good balance.

I’ve always loved adagio and hand-to-hand with the woman in pointe shoes. You support Josh on your shoulders while on pointe. It’s stunning but what does it do to your feet… [Laughs] It requires a lot of training with my legs. The strength isn’t all coming from my ankles, it’s coming from my entire leg, so I have to keep up on my physio with my ankles and then also the strength of my inner thighs and glute muscles so that the whole leg is working to lift the body rather than just my feet.

I’ve never really understood pointe shoes. Is the inside shaped to cushion your foot? Not really. It’s a really close fit but they’re made of papier maché and have wood around the block part. You mostly wear toe pads inside. Most people use cotton or little gels, so sometimes there’s a little bit of foam at the tip of the shoe.

What have you done since graduation? I’ve mostly been working with the Living Room Circus, which is run by Elinor Harvey. She won the Deutsche Bank Business Plan Award in our year at NCCA. We did our first performance together last summer in a yurt in Forest Row in Sussex. We’re coining ourselves right now as an immersive experimental circus company. We mix circus, dance, live music and physical theatre, with an emphasis on audience interaction and involvement. We’re working on The Penguin and I, which Jason Dupree is directing.

Tell us a bit about the show… We’ve been creating a series of scenes that we can then adapt into whatever space we’re going into. For the new show we have this bespoke sofa that we can use in different ways, to balance on, to hang from. We actually got the money to make it from a Kickstarter campaign, which was great. This coming week we are performing in a dairy farm again in Forest Row. We have the scenes all laid out and we’re going to see what we can do with the space. It’s going to be really, really cool. It’s Eli’s home town and it’s kind of like our starting place.

Can you pick out a career highlight or two so far? Right off the bat, I’d say how much Josh and I have travelled so far. We’ve been to Corsica, Israel, Belgium and around the UK, and that alone is pretty awesome and exciting. Then just working with the Living Room Circus has been amazing because it feels just like a circus family. It feels like we’re a bunch of kids making a company, because we haven’t really had that much outside help. We’ve had help funding-wise but yeah, we’ve created this family together and we’re trying to make it work and see what happens.

The Penguin and I runs from 29 June – 2 July at The Dairy, Springhill Farm, in Forest Row, Sussex and again on 25 July at Jacksons Lane in London. Josh and Tess also appear in Simple Cypher’s Cypher Stories on 26 July at the same venue during its Postcards 2017 season.

Picture credits: Tessa’s headshot, Nizaad Photography; Josh on shoulders/iron jaw, Bertil Nilsson; The Penguin, Miriam Strong

For tickets for The Penguin and I at The Dairy and at Jacksons Lane, and for  Cypher Stories. click the links

Twitter: @LRCircus @jacksons_lane @SimpleCypher

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Click the links to read our interviews with Simple Cypher’s Kieran Warner and Christopher Thomas

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Summer in the city: things to do in London

Once my classes had ended and my exams were over, my time could be freely spent enjoying all of the things that London had to offer. This blogpost outlines a few of the noteworthy things I did and saw in London last summer.

Museums and Galleries: The National Gallery and The Museum of Natural History

If you’re looking for a free day out in London, look no further than the incredible museums, galleries and exhibitions in and around London.

This summer I re-visited the National History Museum and National Gallery; both museums I had visited as a child. It is equally enjoyable to visit with a friend as it is to go alone; hours can be spent admiring paintings and reading about the artefacts on display. Of course, not everyone will be interested in art or natural history, but I would nonetheless encourage everyone to visit these institutions and others, since they always prove to be an entertaining day out.

Exhibitions: Dior at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Routinely, museums across London will showcase exhibitions. This summer, I saw that the Victoria and Albert Museum were showcasing the Christian Dior exhibition. This exhibition showcased personal memorabilia of Christian Dior, his design sketches and an impressive collection of his clothes, including iconic dresses designed for royalty and A-list celebrities. The tickets were only around £20.00 each, however they were incredibly difficult to secure. In fact, it took me a whole day to secure tickets for the exhibition, since the website kept crashing as thousands of people clamoured to buy a ticket. A word of advice then- book early if you hope to secure tickets to an exhibition in London.

The West End

Admittedly, I discovered the entertainment of the West End relatively late. Luckily for me, one of my closest friends is a performing arts student, and, when she came to visit me in June, she advised me as to the best musicals to see. I thereafter checked for tickets online, and to my surprise, found some relatively cheap tickets (under £20). The seats weren’t incredible, but our view of the stage was not overly restricted. The play we ended up seeing was Waitress- a play that, I believe, is still running in London. The play itself was funny, heartwarming and the singing was very impressive.

Royal Opera House: Ballet

I had never attended the ballet before moving to London; nonetheless when my friend asked me whether I wanted to attend go, I agreed. The ballet I ended up seeing was Manon. I knew nothing about the ballet, and, perhaps naively, did not anticipate that there would be such a profound story to be told through the dance. I came out of the show truly impressed by the story, music (there was a live orchestra) and the athleticism of the dancers.

Music/Bars: The Blues Kitchen

There are numerous bars in and around London. My favourite bar in London is the Blues Kitchen. There are two in London- one in Camden and one in Shoreditch. I visited the one in Camden a couple of times. The Blues Kitchen not only serves delicious southern comfort food, but is home to live blues and jazz music almost every night. The atmosphere is incredibly laid-back and the venue itself is effortlessly cool.

Parks: Hampstead Heath

London is home to several beautiful parks; but my favourite is Hampstead Heath Park. This past summer, on one of the hottest days of the year, I took the tube to Hampstead Health park with my friends. Perhaps the coolest thing about Hampstead Heath Park is that it has ponds that you can swim in. There are three: one for women, one for men and a mixed pond. Admittedly, I did not venture into any of them, though there were plenty of people who did. Ultimately, the park had a great atmosphere that day, and it was the perfect way to relax after exams.

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Will LED push out projection?

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Exhibitors are dabbling in a host of new technologies and applications, from direct-view LED displays to VR gaming. Tim Kridel explores why — and how – they could create opportunities for AV firms to expand into the cinema market.

On March 22, Zurich’s Arena Cinemas will become the first European theatre — and one of just a handful in the world — with a direct-view LED screen.

It’s an ironic milestone: LED technology enables the big yet affordable TVs that have cut into theatre admissions, which declined 6% over the course of 2017, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. But now LED technology could give exhibitors another tool for making and saving money.

Arena uses Samsung Electronics’ Cinema LED Screen, which is nearly 10.3 meters wide, supports 4K and has a peak brightness level of 146 foot-lamberts (fL). The world’s first Cinema LED installation was in July 2017 at Lotte Cinema World Tower in Seoul. Sony is among the other vendors developing direct-view LED displays for cinema applications.

“It is possible that our future complexes will be Cinema LED-only installations,” says Edi Stöckli, Arena Cinemas’ owner. “We will test our installation and see what other benefits we get. For the moment the price is very high, as all new technologies are at the beginning.”

“It is possible that our future complexes will be Cinema LED-only installations.”

Deploying a direct-view LED display is a lot different than replacing one projection technology with another projection technology.

For starters, LED doesn’t require a projection booth. That space could be used to generate additional revenue, such as premium seating.

Arena Cinemas converted its booth into a private lounge.

“Cinema LED is the future of the cinemas,” Stöckli says. “The digital projector was a step, but it is still a projector with all its technical limits. This technology needs much less power, less cooling and lives much longer than a projector.”

5 tons and 10 times the cost

Depending on the theatre, an LED screen might incur higher installation costs compared to projection.

“The LED screens weigh 5 tons, so you have to build a cinema a hell of a lot stronger,” says David Hancock, IHS Markit director of research and analysis for cinema and home entertainment.

“The cost of a direct-view LED screen is estimated to be up to 10 times the cost of a typical perforated screen,” says Mark Mayfield, QSC director of global cinema marketing. “But there is no projector, so that could be a wash.”

LED is a new technology not only for exhibitors, but also for the specialised integrators serving the cinema vertical? So it’s possible that LED could create an opportunity for traditional AV firms to expand into cinema.

“It’s far more common in the commercial AV world in applications like outdoor digital signage,” Mayfield says.  “On the other hand, commercial AV integrators generally have little experience in the nuances of the cinema industry. So there is likely to be some cross pollination, potentially leading to another type of technology convergence.”

LED also could enable cinemas in new locations or breathe life into struggling ones.

“Direct-view screens can create a much brighter image with significantly higher contrast ratios,” Mayfield says. “They could potentially revitalise drive-in or outdoor cinema, and even make it possible to show movies in daylight or indoors in full lighting.”

Like laser projection, LED displays also could spur more 3D ticket sales by alleviating the brightness problem that meant an underwhelming experience with older technologies. But audio has to be addressed to avoid becoming the new weak link for both 3D and 2D.

“A solid direct-view screen removes the option of placing sound sources where they create the most realistic image-to-picture localisation: placing speakers behind the screen is no longer feasible,” Mayfield says. “So we have to develop new methods and potentially, new technologies to create that sense of accurate localisation.”

“A solid direct-view screen removes the option of placing sound sources where they create the most realistic image-to-picture localization: placing speakers behind the screen is no longer feasible.”

All of these factors have some industry watchers speculating that LED will fundamentally change the types of technologies, companies and venue designs in the cinema space. “LED has the potential to be a genuine disruptor of the business,” Hancock says.

Out with the old? Not so fast Direct-view displays come on the heels of two other formats and technologies generating buzz: high frame rate (HFR) and 4K.

“HFR has not appeared to go over well with general audiences,” says Dan Cofer, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema technical director.  “I doubt we will see a huge push for that in the future. Also, there are not many releases in 4K, and it’s unclear if there is demand for it beyond the cinephile audience. We are currently looking at laser projection and direct display (such as the Sony C-LED) though mainly for premium large-format (PLF) screens at this point, as it is cost-prohibitive to retrofit existing installations.”

Meanwhile, some older formats are holding their ground.

“There has been a resurgence of interest in older formats such as 35 mm and 70 mm, and we are actively installing equipment for those formats in our theatres,” says Kimberly Sandel, manager for private and community events for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s Austin, Texas, market.  “Seventy millimetre was once thought to be a dying art, but now more and more blockbuster titles are being released with 70 mm prints.” Virtual reality (VR) is another question mark. So far, it’s been a niche play.

“You’re not getting VR in the cinema auditorium,” Hancock says. “It’s more of a side thing: maybe a VR pod with 10 units in the foyer. It’s designed to complement the cinema experience, [such as] with games, trailers and stuff like that. It’s not challenging the cinema.”

For instance, VR game systems in the lobby could promote films in the hope of getting players to buy a ticket.

“This can be a good tool to keep visitors in the lobby longer and generate more concessions sales,” says Till Cussmann, CinemaNext vice president.

Like many exhibitors, Alamo Drafthouse is waiting to see if and how filmmakers embrace VR.

“We have done lobby installs for VR demos during our film festival Fantastic Fest,” Sandell says. “VR is definitely growing as a medium for filmmakers, so I expect we will see more demand for it in the future.”

But other exhibitors question whether VR will ever have a place in the auditorium.

“VR is a technology for individual use,” Stöckli says. “We sell collectivity in our theatres: the togetherness of movie-goers, sharing the same emotion at the same time.” Multi-player gaming is a form of togetherness.

“Gaming is indeed a growing market for cinemas,” Cussmann says. “Organising gaming sessions or tournaments in a cinema auditorium is technically easy to do, but it needs quite a lot of marketing and organisational skills and resources that not all exhibitors have in-house. This is why third-party event agencies are getting quite often involved in those sessions.”

Meetings at the movies For years, some exhibitors rented out their auditoriums for non-film events, such as all-hands business meetings. Flat or declining ticket sales have increased interest in rentals.

“The LED screens weigh 5 tons, so you have to build a cinema a hell of a lot stronger.”

“It’s clearly a growing market,” Cussmann says. “With digital projection  and  sound  equipment, you can easily show any kind of content, from live events to recorded content: opera, ballet, sports, expos, red carpet, teleseries, etc.”

The opportunity varies based on several factors, starting with the theatre’s location. “There are relatively few that can do it: city-centre cinemas [in] big cities, business centres,” Hancock says.

Exhibitors also are competing with specialised theatres such as those in museums and other cultural attractions.  Those “institutional theatres,” as they’re sometimes called, have cachet that helps attract event organisers and attendees.

“There’s no cachet with going to an event at the mall [multiplex],” says Derek Threinen, vice president of film distribution and business development at Giant Screen Films / D3D Cinema, which specialises in the institutional market.

Sales staff is another competitive factor.

“The institutional theatres are the ones that perfected that game 20 years ago,” Threinen says. “They have a distinct advantage over the multiplex theatres with regard to having dedicated sales staff. They’re already selling these venues.”

But as the cinema rental market matured, businesses have launched to help exhibitors go after non-film opportunities.

“Companies like Fathom Events have a huge offer for alternative content and help also to market it to the right audience,” Cussmann says. “The main challenge today is to connect the right audience to the right content without having the exhibitor bearing too much risk that the auditoriums are empty and that he loses revenue compared to regular movie screenings.

So the evolution from classical cinemas towards visual entertainment centre has started and will continue to change the landscape.

“Gaming sessions, business conferences and other events are part of this change, and every decent cinema chain has today a corporate sales or event department that markets those new activities. This is not a temporary trend but will be part of the future business of a movie theatre.”

Event organisers also look at whether a theatre can support a variety of AV inputs, such as wireless mics, laptops and Skype feeds.

“The majority of current digital projector setups these days come equipped to handle most outputs,” Sandel says. “We just know when building venues to include front-of-house connections. Having state-of-the-art projection and sound equipment is really the most important part when marketing a venue even for non-film events.

“We are currently looking at laser projection and direct display though mainly for premium large-format screens at this point, as it is cost-prohibitive to retrofit existing installations.”

“Another nice addition we like to include, but cannot always accommodate, is power outlets near the seats. This is incredibly useful for day-long conferences where attendees may need to charge various devices.” Direct-view LED displays also could help cinemas go after the non-film market.

“With this new technology, auditoriums can be screening content with full ambient light on without any compromise on quality,” Cussmann says.

Shaking up the market For years many institutional theatres have offered 4D technologies, such as seats that move and bursts of scents. Now cinemas are increasingly adding 4D to spur ticket sales.

“We’re trying to get people back into the habit of going to the theatres again,” says CEO Byung-Hwan Choi, CEO of CJ 4DPLEX, whose 4DX systems are in over 400 theatres in 50 countries. “We see enhanced cinema experiences as the first big step in achieving that: to create an atmosphere that can only be available in theatres. Not to just sit back and watch a movie, but to really experience it, to be immersed in it.”

For example, CJ 4DPLEX’s ScreenX platform gives audiences a 270 degree view.

“Think about seeing a film like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ where you can experience scenes as if you’re surrounded by the waves and the sea,” Choi says. “It’s really something to experience, and there’s nothing like this out there on the market. We like to try and keep ahead of the curve.”

One way is by adapting technologies from other verticals, such as theme parks. If that strategy is successful, it’s another potential way for AV firms in those verticals to expand into the cinema market.

“We have developed our own 4DX VR technology that’s currently featured in theme parks and arcades around the world,” Choi says.

“The VR world is an interesting, growing industry which with we want to keep up. We’re always on the lookout for interesting collaboration projects, specifically in the gaming and alternative content field.”

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January is my penny pinching month.

January is always a tight month for me as my employers pay us before Christmas which means I have a 6 week wait for the next payday to roll around. I always put money aside but it is still a tough wait. I usually promise myself that I will try to be better with my money even beyond the long awaited January payday so I thought I would share a few of my tips with you all that I have found make a difference to me in the hopes they can help you too.

1 – Make the most of your subscriptions.

 Something I know that I am guilty of is paying a subscription for something and not utilising it for the maximum value.

 ·        Buy a monthly travelcard? Use it at weekends to go to free exhibitions, museums and outdoor spaces.

·        Got a Kindle Unlimited/Netflix account that you’ve neglected over the festive party season? Now is a good time to make a brew and settle on the sofa for an escape into a good story.

·        Gym membership? Go for a workout and/or spa session if your gym has wet facilities like a sauna/steam room.

·        Spotify/Audible/other similar service? Don’t just listen on your commute, keep the music/story flowing at home.

2 – Dig into the freezer.

 Most people I know are guilty of bunging things into the freezer in the weeks leading up to Christmas as drinks party invites crop up at the last minute and they have food that won’t keep in the fridge. Make an inventory of what you have and work out what you have in the cupboard to go with it. This weekend I found some homemade chilli, curry and soups that I popped in the freezer when I didn’t use them all up at the time of making. All I’ve needed to do after defrosting is cook some rice or make some toast to go with it. This will bring your grocery bills down as you’ll only need to buy things like milk, bread and loo roll.

3 – Enjoy your gifts.

 ·        I love sweets and chocolates which most of my friends and family know. I tend to receive quite a few edible gifts but as I have outgrown the habits of my youth I no longer binge out on them all at once. This means I usually have a box or two of chocolates left after the New Year begins and can enjoy a couple of pralines with a cuppa after dinner in the evening.

·        Don’t save the posh bath oil gift set for high days and holidays as I’m prone to doing. Break it open and take a soak in the tub.

·        Wrap up in the matching scarf, hat and gloves and go out for a walk.

·        Find things you actually want to buy with gift cards and use the January sales to make the most of the money.

4 – Make daily changes to save big.

 ·        Coffee to go. Dig out the reusable cup that is languishing in the back of almost every cupboard (or invest in one if you don’t have one. A black Bodum Vacuum Travel Mug is £12.48 on Amazon so even if you buy one you’ll still save a tiny bit that first week) and make your brew before you leave the house. If you ditch the grande latte from Starbucks every day for a week that’ll save you £14.75 a week and do something extra for the environment.

·        Buying lunch out. Swap your sandwich shop soup, crisps and fruit for the equivalent from the supermarket and get the whole weeks lunch for almost the same price as 1 day. E.G a pot of soup, crisps and mango prepared fruit pot costs £6.84 in a Central London branch of Pret. Spend £8.25 in Waitrose (£1.65 per day) and you can get 5 tins of Heinz soup (currently on offer 4 for £3), a 6 pack of Walkers crisps and a multipack of mangoes. That’s a massive saving of £25.95 for the week and you can have a different flavour of soup each day if you want. Do the same for breakfast if you usually buy that out and you’ll find yourself saving even more especially if you switch to store own brand products.

5 – Look for deals and special events.

Try and look for deals to get the most for your money when you do need to spend. Remember to allow for extras like car parking, cloakroom, drinks, snacks etc. so you don’t overspend!

 ·        Time Out Offers has lots of interesting things to do and places to eat that are changing regularly. In the past I’ve picked up discounted ballet, theatre and exhibition tickets as well as special deals on restaurants and bars (be careful as with some of them you are required to book in advance and others you pick a date at the time of purchase).

·        If you are an O2 customer they run offers on their Priority app that give you discounts/freebies on stuff. I use the money off coupons that appear regularly for The Body Shop to buy my must have face powder and most weeks there is a deal for a main dish for £5 at Pizza Express.

·        A lot of chain bars/pubs have offers for post work drinks. A favourite near our office is Simmons as a glass of wine/selected bottled beers/single house spirits with mixer are only £2.50 during Happy Hour so you can have a drink or two after work to wind down without ruining your spending plan.

·       Lloyds bank offers cash back when you spend with certain businesses with your debit card but you have to activate the offers beforehand via your online banking before the cash back will register and be paid back into your account the following month. It’s worth looking to see if there’s anything of use if you bank with them as well.

Late Opening Museums and Galleries are a good opportunity to do something different after work and there’s so much to see one evening is not enough so it could entertain for several nights. If you aren’t in London check out the website for your local museums/galleries as they may do something similar.

Late openings I know of near me in London are:

 ·        The Natural History Museum runs a free entry late opening on the last Friday of the month.

·        The Science Museum holds lates on the last Wednesday of the month.

·        The V&A runs on the last Friday in every month (except May & December).

·        Tate Britain has a late event on the first Friday of April, June, August, October and December in 2018.

·        At the National Portrait Gallery you can visit the Late Shift every Thursday and Friday 18:00-21:00.

·        Just around the corner the National Gallery hosts a late on Fridays also until 21:00.

·        The British Museum opens until 20:30 on Fridays.

 6 – Use cash.

I’m one of the worst people for using my card (both contactless and PIN) to pay for things without really considering how that is affecting my bank balance. When I am watching the pennies I ban myself for using my card for purchases I could make in cash. I take out a set amount for my week depending on what I am planning for those days and once it is gone that’s it. I find it really makes me think if I actually need to spend the dosh as I can see my allowance to myself diminishing in real life instead of just numbers on a screen. Having said that don’t forget to allow for card usage if you are taking advantage of cashback offers like the one mentioned earlier in tip 5.

Happy saving!

All the pricing and offers mentioned were correct according to the company websites at the time of publishing. I take no responsibility for offers changing/ending nor am I being compensated in any way by the businesses/brands I have mentioned for talking about them. I am simply sharing goods, ideas and services I have found useful for myself.

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VR will change the way we see live events

Get a Samsung Gear VR, connect to the Samsung VR service on August 17, and experience the magic of Coldplay’s performance at no additional cost, while sitting comfortably at home.

Samsung Electronics America and Live Nation will broadcast Coldplay’s “A Head Full of Dreams Tour” live in virtual reality from Chicago’s Soldier Field for the first time ever. It’s promised to be a unique experience, and it may well set the path for new explorations of Virtual Reality, and maybe change the way many people participate in live events. Or should I write live virtual events?

The idea of a VR broadcast of a concert may appear to some as something completely new and revolutionary, but it is only the result of a long path we’ve walked since the first virtual experiences, whether in virtual worlds or games, were introduced by computers.

Virtual events are nothing new to me, as I started covering them in Second Life, an online world that was all the rage back in mid 2000, and a mandatory destination for every newspaper and TV, some of which had virtual offices there – CNN, Reuters, BBC or Sky News. Journalists from the real world were also “embedded” in Second Life, writing real news about a virtual world accessed through a computer.

Because of my background in tech, computers and the web, I was invited by a major weekly newspaper I worked with at the time – Expresso  – to be their correspondent in the virtual world of Second Life. Having written many articles and a book on virtual worlds, including Second Life, working as a journalist in Second Life was just “business as usual”. I covered everything, from the – virtual – launch of new cars or books to concerts, including the opening of the new season for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the first classical music concert in Second Life, on September 14, 2007, performed in a 3D recreation of Liverpool’s 70-year-old, art-deco concert hall.

Due to the technical limitations of Second Life in terms of the number of avatars – digital representation of users – present in each area simultaneously, the concert audience was limited to 100, and access was “by ticket only”, which, although free, had to be booked online. Despite the limitations, the concert, was hailed as a ‘brave plunge into cyberspatial concert-giving’. From the 10,000 requests 100 lucky avatars – me included – were able to listen to the season opening, with works by Rachmaninov and Ravel, before  joining conductor Vasily Petrenko and composer Kenneth Hesketh in the virtual bar, after the concert.

In a note published about the concert, Liverpool Philharmonic chief executive Michael Elliott said: “Orchestras today are committed to reaching out to make their music more accessible to encourage new audiences. That means exploring and embracing the opportunities presented by new technology. For us Second Life allows us to tap into a potential global audience. It’s also a lot of fun and it certainly adds a different dimension to the more traditional visit to a concert hall.”

The classical music concert was not a novelty, in terms of music, in Second Life. Since Second Life’s opening, in 2003, bands were discovering Second Life as an alternative space to make themselves seen and heard. In August 2007, 38 years after the original Woodstock, and 28 years after being present at a REAL WORLD Woodstock celebration, with names as Arlo Guthrie and Country Joe McDonald, I participated in a virtual Woodstock celebration in Second Life, with lots of streaming music from different artists. February 1, 2008, the rock band Journey opened their own island in Second Life. But the virtual world was already a destination for different acts, from Duran Duran to Susanne Vega. The singer was the first major recording artist to perform live in the virtual world, on August 3, 2006, starting a trend that has continued to this day, although the heyday of Second Life is gone, and the virtual world no longer is theme for newspaper articles. Still, many artists use the audio-streaming characteristics of the sim to reach audiences, in virtual concerts that may well represent a stepping-stone on the path to Virtual Reality events like the one now announced by Samsung.

The use of technology to make events more accessible to a wider audience is nothing new. Radio and television have allowed artists and companies to reach that goal, the Internet opened new shortcuts to access wider audiences. The different videos published with this article reveal the variety of experiences available in Second Life, which presents, in fact, many of the essential aspects of Virtual Reality, and continues to offer artists a way to reach wider audiences across the world.

In a document, Orchestras Into the Future, from the Association of British Orchestras, where the Liverpool Philharmonic experience in Second Life is mentioned, under the section Inspiration Through Innovation, different examples of ways to reach audiences using technology are given: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra hosted the first ever online streaming of live concerts directly from Cadogan Hall, enabling audiences across the world to experience a live performance in the comfort of their own homes, while, “since December 2006, players from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra have been participating in video-conferenced sessions to schools in remote areas of Scotland. And the Royal Opera House is reaching new audiences by bringing opera to cinemas – broadcasting its opera and ballet seasons live at 800 Picturehouses, Odeon and Vue cinemas using the latest state-of-the-art sound and digital projection technology.”

The experiences go further, with the introduction, by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, of the first orchestral iPhone and iPod touch application in United Kingdom, allowing users to check details of concerts, buy tickets and listen to complete movements from works being performed by the Orchestra. Projects like the YouTube Orchestra, a revolutionary concept that in 2009 brought people together from across the world, creating an orchestra out of musicians who auditioned solely online, suggest the potential technology brought to the field of music, and the dissemination of live events.

The experience acquired in recent years and the development of technologies are the basis on which the upcoming live VR broadcast becomes a reality (pun intended!). We are a long way from the incipient Second Life immersion, and it will be interesting to see, as apparently there are no limitations in terms of accessibility, how big an audience the Coldplay concert gets. There is, still, a limitation, represented by the number of Samsung Gear VR units owned by people, but the company has pushed hard to sell the accessory – which costs $49.99 -, and the announcement of the concert may give more people a reason to invest in the necessary gear to experience the show. The VR unit is compatible with Galaxy S8, S8+, S7, S7 edge, Note5, S6 edge+, S6, S6 edge smartphones.

According to Samsung, it will be like sitting on a front seat of the concert room, a front seat giving a unique 360 view of the whole event. Samsung says that “from the pyrotechnics, to the laser lights and the phenomenal setlist, Gear VR users in more than 50 countries will be able to experience the magic of Coldplay’s performance at no additional cost. To tune-in, consumers will need a Gear VR headset with a compatible Samsung smartphone, and navigate to the Samsung VR service. A concert replay will also be available on Samsung VR for a limited time.”

“Through our industry-leading VR hardware and platform ecosystem, we are thrilled to offer Samsung Gear VR owners access to premium, immersive live entertainment and experiences in full 360,” said Michael Schmier, Vice President of Content and Services, Samsung Electronics America. “By partnering with Live Nation and Coldplay, music fans across the globe with Gear VR can tune in to the live concert, experiencing the energy of the show like never before.”

“Live Nation is a trailblazer when it comes to producing live virtual reality concerts, and we’ve been excited to bring Coldplay into the mix since announcing our collaboration with Samsung and Gear VR in late May,” said Kevin Chernett, Executive Vice President, Global Partnerships and Content Distribution, Live Nation. “We not only give fans the best in-seat experience, but we’re also committed to working with the best technologies to provide every music fan an extraordinary concert experience, regardless of where they are.”

Coldplay’s “A Head Full Of Dreams Tour,” produced by Live Nation, is the No. 5 highest grossing tour of all time, according to ticket sales data reported to Billboard Boxscore. Launching in March of 2016, The “A Head Full of Dreams Tour” has welcomed 5 million people. A Head Full of Dreams is Coldplay’s seventh album and the follow-up to 2014’s GRAMMY-nominated Ghost Stories.

The concert may mark the start of a new era, when people from all around the world is able to participate in live events through a virtual connection. It’s different from viewing a concert online or on TV, and miles ahead from seeing it using a DVD or any other media support. The experience may herald a new era, but raises one question: will VR concerts, in the future, be free?

Back to the Liverpool Orchestra experience in Second Life, the technical limitations, allowing only 100 avatars to be in the same space, forced the organizers to issue tickets, although free. With Virtual Reality we’re reaching a new level of sophistication, and while there may be no technical limitations to the number of users, what VR may mean is two things: while the total number of participants rises, it is also probable that fewer people will feel the need to go to the concert hall, or simply can not get a ticket because the event is sold out. If that happens, will the virtual access to events be paid? Will VR-goers have to pay a special-priced ticket to enjoy being virtually there?

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