Google’s New Online Cultural Institute Exhibition Brings Art through Technology
Attention online armchair travelers and performance and art enthusiasts! Now you have access to a cultural treasure trove of music, opera, theatre, dance, and performance art from around the world, courtesy of the new virtual Performing Arts exhibition unveiled by the Google Cultural Institute.
The next best thing to being there, this is art through technology, and you don’t have to dress up to enjoy it.
From New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, more than 60 notable performing arts venues from the United States and more than 20 countries have made available videos, photos, behind-the-scenes footage, and with some, a 360 degree-view of the performance.
There’s a wide variety of performances to choose from, among them:
Enjoy a virtual reality performance of Benjamin Millepied’s ballet “Clear, Loud, Bright, Forward” at the Paris Opera.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company, watch actor Alex Hassell as he performs the legendary speech “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more” from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V in director Gregory Doran’s production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt, under the direction of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum provides images and memorabilia from the exhibition of country music legend Hank Williams, Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy.
If you want to learn more about performance art, the Marina Abramovic Institute offers a digital experience of the Abramovic Method.
Among the cultural institutions from the United States participating are the American Ballet Theatre, American Museum of Magic, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Marina Abramovic Institute, The Metropolitan Opera, Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, New York Live Arts, Nuyorican Poets Café, and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band.
The Google Cultural Institute was launched in 2011, allowing anyone with an Internet connection to view some of the world’s significant cultural treasures across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
The best thing about it? The curtain never closes.
