The seventeen days of the FRESH Festival, which includes intensive courses on the "metaphysics of the spine" and "performing as sensing," as well as labs and mixers with Keith Hennessey, Kinetech, and more promises cross-pollination among key players in the experimental dance and music community, kicked off on January 3.
Each of the three weekends brings live performances, with the first weekend featuring new works by Christine Bonansea, Sara Shelton Mann, and Alternativa (Kathleen Hermesdorf and Albert Mathias).
Its creation paved the way for the gaming world of today -- adding social elements and changing the definition of what constitutes a game. It led the way for World of Warcraft, Fable, Final Fantasy, and many more -- and it's turning 40 years old. Happy birthday, Dungeons & Dragons.
We're not part of the 20 million people who've put a player character into the game and rolled the polyhedral dice to see how the events of D&D unfold. We've never purchased any of the $1-billion worth of game merchandise sold over the last four decades, but we do know that D&D isn't over the hill.
For those unfamiliar with D&D, Jon Peterson, author of Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games says "D&D was the original, fantasy role playing game, [and other social games] incorporate principles D&D introduced, where a character gets better with experience."
