Page 128 - AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2014

AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 2014work was written. This programme sheet, we can be sure, will become an ad hoc application for each performance, and one that provides the possibility of increasing the information available during moments such as the interval. The same thing happens with the social media. It will become more and more commonplace to see people tweeting about something they like a lot or sending or recommending it to a friend at the very moment they are involved in it.The new technologies will make it possible for the performing arts to widen their radius and reach other people through audiovisual media with ever better sound and image quality. This formula will become a source of additional income for the theatrical venue concerned and it will spread its fame.The third consequence concerns the before and after for every performance. Experimental theatre’s old aspiration, an aspiration that had the ambition for the work to remain in the mind of thespectator even after the performance was over, could be broadened with the new communication technologies which enable the creation of common interest communities amongst the public for each theatrical venue, although the distance between them can be measured in kilometres. In the future theatre goers will attend performances at the theatres closest to their places of residence but they will be able to have distance subscriptions to the theatrical seasons of other theatres around the world. They will form opinions and make recommendations in languages other than their own about what they have seen and heard, either at the same time they are seeing and hearing it, or after each performance. They will follow the lives of their theatres and those of their favourite actors, singers and ballet dancers. They will be able to watch the rehearsals and see what happens behind the scenes. And when they get home, perhaps they will be able to download one of their favourite theatre’s multiple educational resources and share with their children, the future generation of theatre goers, everything that arouses their passion for the performing arts.FOCUS 2014: THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTSANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTSAC/E CURRENT PAGE...128