Sunday's events include classes and a panel discussion on Nikolais's artistry and theater technology.
Thanks primarily to the DVD, home theater technology -- or at least some semblance of the experience -- is now available to far more people.
Every summer the festival's wizards of theater technology turn the enormous open courtyard of this grand palace, once the residence of Salzburg's ruling archbishops, into a makeshift opera house with seating for 780.
"In that show we had this issue, which is that there was to be no theater technology," he said before a rehearsal for his current production, "When the Rain Stops Falling" (in previews at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center).
That show, created to open the spanking-new Ford Center by the Mike Todd-style producer Garth Drabinsky, was a paean to the latest in theater technology, a sort of World's Fair for the stage, that featured planes, trains, a full-size Model T and fireworks (to accompany the expression of love).
Theater technology company RealD said 3-D screeningeneratedted nearly half of the domestic box-office total for the film and about 65% of the international grosses.
THX, the company that creates various home-theater technology standards, recommends that a viewer's head should not have to look up more than 15 degrees.
Its curriculum features career-specific courses like "Sight Singing for Musical Theater," "Music Technology" and "Audition".
But like the "New Century" schools created by New Visions, they will be designed to make learning more exciting with themes like the environment, public service, urban planning, theater or technology.
An honors student, he finished in the top 10 percent of his class at Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and Technology, where he had taken advanced-placement courses and participated in College Now, a free program allowing him to take courses at Lehman College like macroeconomics and theater.
