Armchair Arts Adventure
December 1, 2015 7:23 PM   Subscribe

Stand, virtually, on the stage of the Palais Garnier, among the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. Use your mouse to manipulate a 360-degree video that allows you to see them from many angles as they perform Benjamin Millepied’s “Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward.” Or journey to Stratford-upon-Avon, where you can try to keep up with a frenetic Alex Hassell of the Royal Shakespeare Company as Henry V, exhorting his troops to go “once more unto the breach." The 360-degree videos are part of an innovative assemblage of performing arts groups that went online on Tuesday morning at the Google Cultural Institute, a free website that made its name in recent years by digitizing and displaying the collections of more than 800 art museums and historical archives.
posted by storybored (5 comments total) 22 users marked this as a favorite
 
I had trouble finding a link at the GCI that would give all of the 360 video performances. (You can select videos as a search criteria, but not 360 videos). But here's how to get four to start.
Click here then click on the 360 degree video icon at the top right of the screen.

The four are Berliner Philharmoniker playing an excerpt of Beethoven's Symphony no 9; the Philadelphia Orchestra playing In the Hall of the Mountain King; Royal Shakespeare Co's Henry V excerpt; Wagner's Lohengrin by Teatro Municipal de Sao Paolo.

The Paris Opera Ballet video is found separately on Youtube.
posted by storybored at 8:00 PM on December 1, 2015


Can we get Wim Wenders to do a companion piece to his excellent 3D film Pina using this technology? It wouldn't have to be long, but it would be breathtaking.
posted by hippybear at 1:07 AM on December 2, 2015


They've been flogging this type of technology for decades now - - anyone for some QuickTime VR?
posted by fairmettle at 1:56 AM on December 2, 2015


Mod note: Cosmetic edit: I've unlinked part of the post text so it's not one big link, to accommodate some mobile users.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 4:22 AM on December 2, 2015


Hey, fyi, GCI's new tab extension for Chrome is pretty cool, too. It pulls graphic art from the archive and displays an image on every new tab you open, one fresh image a day.
posted by notyou at 7:05 AM on December 2, 2015


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