Report about the realization of the project:
Ballettikka Internettikka - Part Two | ballet.net
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet/ballet_2/www/index.html
1. NEWS
I. Stromajer and B. Zorman are safely back home, after they realized the
illegal net performance entitled "Ballettikka Internettikka - Part Two |
ballet.net" in Bolshoi Theatre.
2. EVENT
Ballettikka Internettikka: Part Two - ballet.net took place in The
Bolshoi Theatre on the International Bolshoi Day on March 28th 2002. On
that day The Bolshoi Theatre Group performed the opera by Nikolai Rimsky-
Korsakov "The Tzars Bride" on the main stage.
3. REPORT
First it was unknown how the ballet.net.dancer - I.S. and the
ballet.net.composer B.Z. are going to enter The Bolshoi Theatre on that
day, but they were preparing 3 different options/plans to do it. All
options were illegal.
(no go) Option N.1: JamesBond
- tickets for the The Tzars Bride were bought in advance. Both artists
wanted to enter Bolshoi using the main entrance for the audience & dance
at the Bolshoi's toilet (at 20:00 GMT+3, one hour after the opera
started on the main stage).
FAILED: the security guards discovered laptops, mobile phones, cameras
etc in artist's bags. I.S. and B.Z. decided to leave the building at
18:44 GMT+3 (no sanctions were taken against them and the security stuff
was very kind).
(GO!) Option N.2: ARTinvasion
- at 19:49 GMT+3 both artists re-entered The Bolshoi Theatre via small
window in the left wing of the building and performed the ballet.net
action in the abandoned part of the cellar. They successfully left the
building a t 20:17 GMT+3.
(no go) Option N.3:
- to give US Dollars to the doorkeeper at the staff-entrance and to
enter the building using the instrument of payola was not used.
All three options included emergency escapes from the building.
This illegal action was carefully studied as an invasion. Watches were
synchronized and all the details were prepared. Artists used hi-tech
mobile and wireless equipment for invasion and live broadcasting
(portable comput ers, mini digital camera, MP3 audio systems, mobile WAP
telephones etc). Laptop and MiniDV cam, together with Webcam32 (version
6.0) software were used for visual signal broadcasting (running over
Intima Virtual Base FTP server). Another laptop and MP3 player with
online interface SHOUTcast (version 1.8.3/win32), was used for live
sound broadcasting (running over Beitthron FTP server). Russian GSM
mobile phone operator MTS/RUS (Mobile Tel esystems 2, GSM 900) was used
for mobile internet connection.
4. LIVE BROADCASTING
Live broadcasting of this illegal ballet.net performance started on
March 28th 2002 at 20:00 GMT+3, Moscow time (18:00 Paris time CET -
Central European Time; 12:00 New York time), and lasted exactly 11
minutes (until 20: 11 GMT+3 local Moscow time). It was available at
Ballettikka Internettikka website plus at TV.INTIMA. Project was
publicly announced in advance (also in Russia).
5. MOTIVATION
"We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them on the landing
grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight
in the hills. We shall never surrender." (W. Churchill)
6. DATA
produced by:
intima | virtual base
http://www.intima.org
2002
Beitthron
http://www.ljudmila.org/beitthron
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www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/oppera
www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/ballet
www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/cam
www.bolshoi.ru
ballet performed by Igor Stromajer
original music composed & performed by Brane Zorman - MC Brane
