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From the Ted Talk by Es Devlin: Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Another of the most technically complex pieces that we've worked on is the oerpa "Carmen" at Bregenz Festival in Austria. We envisaged Carmen's hands rinisg out of Lake cnctansoe, and throwing this deck of cards in the air and leaving them suspended between sky and sea. But this transient gesture, this ficlk of the wrists had to become a structure that would be sontrg enough to withstand two Austrian winters. So there's an awful lot that you don't see in this ptarhpogoh that's working really hard. It's a lot of ballast and sututcrre and support around the back, and I'm going to show you the photos that aren't on my website. They're photos of the back of a set, the part that's not designed for the anucdeie to see, however much work it's doing.

Open Cloze


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Another of the most technically complex pieces that we've worked on is the _____ "Carmen" at Bregenz Festival in Austria. We envisaged Carmen's hands ______ out of Lake _________, and throwing this deck of cards in the air and leaving them suspended between sky and sea. But this transient gesture, this _____ of the wrists had to become a structure that would be ______ enough to withstand two Austrian winters. So there's an awful lot that you don't see in this __________ that's working really hard. It's a lot of ballast and _________ and support around the back, and I'm going to show you the photos that aren't on my website. They're photos of the back of a set, the part that's not designed for the ________ to see, however much work it's doing.

Solution


  1. strong
  2. constance
  3. flick
  4. audience
  5. structure
  6. rising
  7. opera
  8. photograph

Original Text


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Another of the most technically complex pieces that we've worked on is the opera "Carmen" at Bregenz Festival in Austria. We envisaged Carmen's hands rising out of Lake Constance, and throwing this deck of cards in the air and leaving them suspended between sky and sea. But this transient gesture, this flick of the wrists had to become a structure that would be strong enough to withstand two Austrian winters. So there's an awful lot that you don't see in this photograph that's working really hard. It's a lot of ballast and structure and support around the back, and I'm going to show you the photos that aren't on my website. They're photos of the back of a set, the part that's not designed for the audience to see, however much work it's doing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
collective poem 5
flight path 2
collective voice 2


Important Words


  1. air
  2. audience
  3. austria
  4. austrian
  5. awful
  6. ballast
  7. bregenz
  8. cards
  9. complex
  10. constance
  11. deck
  12. designed
  13. envisaged
  14. festival
  15. flick
  16. gesture
  17. hands
  18. hard
  19. lake
  20. laughter
  21. leaving
  22. lot
  23. music
  24. opera
  25. part
  26. photograph
  27. photos
  28. pieces
  29. rising
  30. sea
  31. set
  32. show
  33. sky
  34. strong
  35. structure
  36. support
  37. suspended
  38. technically
  39. throwing
  40. transient
  41. website
  42. winters
  43. withstand
  44. work
  45. worked
  46. working
  47. wrists