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Stage Management: Other / Re: Looking for Suggestions on Stage Managing Dance

« on: Oct 31, 2006, 06:54 pm »

Why was your experience in ASMing a dance concert a nightmare? What specifically went wrong? There are differences between SMing dance opposed to SMing a standard drama production, but the theory behind them is the same. I have just finished SMing a dance-type show, where a lot of the calls were made by timing the music, this is probably the most common. Ie at 1min in the lights may change state, at 1 min 30 sec the next cue... etc. You just simply record the times that cues occur at and set yourself up with a trusty stop watch. If the dance piece is done to a cd backing track, you can often use the cd counter as a guide to making your calls.

Look forward to hearing from you