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LEMUR National Gallery Premiere

Electronics, LEMUR, Music March 17th, 2006

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The premiere of Ballet Mécanique at the National Gallery of Art was incredible. The performance went flawlessly and there was a good crowd and good reaction. The setting was fantastic — smack dab in the mezzanine of the East Building along with works by greats like Calder, Max Ernst, and Andy Goldsworthy.

At some point a recording will made and probably a video too, but if you can check it out in person you definitely should. It runs through March 29 with performances at 1 and 4pm on weekends, and only 1pm on weekends. Apparently there are some politics involved with shaking up the gallery on weekends with some cacophonous noise! The performance was fantastic — definitely felt like people were woken up with some live Dada energy.

Pictures of the Ballet Mécanique premiere in Washington, DC

On the drive back with Eric we talked about Hydrobot, sprinkler valves, and basic tenets of interactive art. Hopefully there will be a Hydrobot update soon :)

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