Casting in the Age of the Cloud, Episode 6: The Ballad of the Overkill

(2023 update: original article published May 5, 2022)  By now I hope we all have understood that, with respect to casting in the age of the Cloud, video is king.  Nothing will ever replace a live audition, but even live auditions today will often be immortalized in video.  Video has become an essential tool in […]

Casting in the Age of the Cloud, Episode 5: Cut to the Chase

(2023 update: original article published Dec 3, 2021)  There was a time, years ago, when a friend (a cellist by profession), had to go on unemployment at the end of a long term contract (as those of us in the performing arts are wont to do from time to time).  It is an unfortunate norm […]

Casting in the Age of the Cloud, Episode 4: The Visibility Conundrum

In a conversation I had with a choreographer friend of mine several months ago, she said, “There are so many dancers I know who want to be seen by you!” (obviously we were talking about auditions).  The statement would suggest that there are a lot of dancers looking for opportunities, and this in itself is not […]

Casting in the Age of the Cloud, Episode 3: Video Manipulation

The clouds

(2023 update: original article published August 31, 2020)  When I originally planned the electricity renovations in my house many years ago, I originally had a future in mind where one day I would have a video editing suite in the house where I could edit professional video someday at home.  At the time, that idea involved […]

Casting in the Age of the Cloud, Episode 2: Showreels

(2023 update: original article published August 6, 2020)  Although I already established it in the last episode of this series, I think it a good idea to recap the important question word that leads to better understanding of the casting process: the simple question “Why?”. I have mentioned this in a previous article about another […]

Casting in the Age of the Cloud, Episode 1: Eponym

(2023 update: original article published June 1st, 2020)  I will be honest with you: I hate Top Ten lists. I hate them because they often end up being a cheap way of avoiding the need for writing skills.  If one publishes a list of things that are interesting enough in their own right, then one […]