My imaginary I2 project

I attended a performing arts event on Feb. 16, 2007 at French Institute Alliance Francaise. The production was called "Desperately Seeking Carmen," and it was based on the story "Carmen," with excerpts from the Bizet's opera, combined with live flamenco music (guitar and singing) and dance, and a silent film by Cecil B. Demille. The film was shown on the large screen behind the guitarist, dancer, and singers while they performed.

It was a great performance and it inspired me to think of an imaginary I2 project: ballet performance. Usually in a ballet production, the dancers are in front of the orchestra (or on top of the orchestra, if the orchestra is in the orchestra pit). Why don't we reverse it and have the musicians on stage and dancers in the back? I can use the same setting as "Desperately Seeking Carmen," with a screen in the back and have musicians in front. I will have dancers dance live in another site and have the video projected on the screen. I wonder how latency affects the performance as a whole, but I believe it will not be a big issue since music is created on one site only. Maybe a revival of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring as a ballet production is possible!