Archive for February, 2013

Dancing Events Galore

February 18, 2013 at 6:45 pm · Filed under arts, dance, Events ·Tagged , , , , ,

Wanting to alert you to dance events happening over the next month in Oxford.

Oxford Dance Writers

Oxford Dance Writers

Opening Tuesday 19th February, English National Ballet bring their much praised production of The Sleeping Beauty to the New Theatre:
http://oxforddancewriters.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/the-sleeping-beauty-english-national-ballet-at-the-new-theatre-19th-23rd-february/

On Wednesday 20th the centenary of the first performance of The Rite of Spring is celebrated in an event at St Hilda’s with guests Dame Monica Mason and dance historian and curator Jane Pritchard:
http://oxforddancewriters.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-rite-of-spring-a-centenary-celebration-of-the-music-and-the-ballet-20th-february-2013/

Full of foot tapping musical numbers and outrageous costuming, Priscilla Queen of the Desert opens at the New Theatre on 25th February:
http://oxforddancewriters.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-at-the-new-theatre-oxford-25th-february-to-2nd-march/

And this year’s edition of Dancin’ Oxford 1st-10th March offers a full and varied programme of local and guest performers on stage and in the streets as well as another Dance and Academia Symposium, Dance, Identity and the Body; full programme here:
http://oxforddancewriters.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/dancin-oxford-brings-dance-to-the-streets-of-oxford-1st-11th-march-2013/

http://oxforddancewriters.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/dance-body-and-identity-dance-and-academia-symposium-at-old-fire-station-9th-march-2013/

Oxford Dance Writers is planning to cover as many of these events as possible with a team of local writers…

Enjoy!

Susie

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Start Painting on your iPad or other Tablet

February 9, 2013 at 2:20 pm · Filed under arts

We were very lucky to have a wonderful tutorial at the OII on mobile painting apps, given by Jeremy Sutton. Jeremy is a natural teacher and spent the hour plus overtime describing the tools he uses for mobile painting on a tablet computer, all the time demonstrating the use and functionality of different tools – from brushes to apps – by involving the audience in his various sketches. He created a very useful Web page for the talk which provides his recommendations of tools for mobile painting, see: http://www.paintboxtv.com/ipad-painting/

Here is a movie of a quick sketch Jeremy did of Adham:

I met Jeremy when he was a physics student at Oxford, and I was a professor in LA in the early 1980s. After a career of over a decade at Oxford Instruments, he followed his love of sketching and painting after he sat down at a conference on computer painting and delighted the conference goers by demonstrating what could be done on a computer screen. He has been creating and selling his work, teaching classes and demonstrating the art and craft of painting with a computer ever since. He was off from our session to spend a day in the Apple Store in London. Now Jeremy is in California with a studio in San Francisco, and I’m in Oxford.

Take a look at his tips, and his Web site. He’ll either inspire you to try it, or provoke your thinking about the implications of computing in the production and dissemination of art. So if there is a rainy day in Oxford, try painting with a mobile app.

Bill and Jeremy at the OII

Bill and Jeremy at the OII

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