Coppélia, AI and the Question of When a Comedic Ballet May Not In Fact Be a Comedy After All!
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Leta Biasucci and James Kirby Rogers in Coppélia, choreographed by Alexandra Danilova and George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. PNB presents Coppélia onstage at Seattle Center's McCaw Hall May 31 - June 9, 2024 (and streaming June 13 - 17.) For tickets and information, contact the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org. Photo © Angela Sterling. This has been an amazingly hard week. We got hacked by cybercriminals seeking ransom at my regular job, which basically crashed us back to the times of Alexandria! Who attacks a library—that’s what I want to know! My latest, computer died and this all got me thinking about how important computers are to us now! I can’t even think of what life would be like without my cell phone and in addition it just seems as though AI has taken over our world. On the positive side, it seems as though humanity is getting closer and closer to speaking to whales and other animals and finding that th...