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Long-time colleagues Steven Maxwell and Brad Jennings founded Markwell Presents in 2002 and are now producing cinematic performance with various dance and theatre groups in Australia. In this podcast episode they talk to us about ‘cinematic theatre’ and the challenges of seeking to blend live, embodied performance with digital media. ‘Cinematic theatre’ as a concept does not have to include digital material, though. The concept is more broadly concerned with the bringing of film theory and film aesthetics into the space of the theatre, thereby seeking to expand the theatrical experience and the range of theatrical expression. (See for example Ebrahimian 2004.) You can do this with good old fashioned analogue film, of course, but digital technologies make it that much easier and affordable. One wonders what the knock-on educational effects of this convergence of live performance and recorded material might be. Already struggling to make your powerpoint presentations more interesting? Worried that you have too many bullet points and too few graphics? What will happen when you have to have not just slides but whole movies running on the screen behind you during your lectures? That will make a difference to your lecture preparation time, hey? |
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Allan Carrington is a Learning Designer with the Centre of Learning and Professional Development at the University of Adelaide. 
Dr Ian Green teaches and researches in areas of researcher education, elearning and linguistics at the University of Adelaide. 
Dr Kate Foy is a freelance creative arts consultant and practitioner, and an e-learning researcher. She was until recently Associate Professor and Deputy Dean Faculty of Arts, University of Southern Queensland. 
Cat Hope runs the composition, music technology and postgraduate programs in music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan Univeristy in Perth, WA. She is a composer, performer, installation artist and active music researcher and writer. 
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