Ballet Showcase 2013
Modern Ballet Showcase 2013
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The Second Modern Ballet Showcase in The royal Conservatoire consisted of 6 short Pieces: Monad, Esquisses, Naomi's solo piece, Napoli, Georgia's Solo piece and The Reel
The Masking
We used the New Athenaeum house Border and Tabs. The border on the winch bar and tabs on Flybar 1. Tabs would fly in and out between performances.
We had 3 borders on Bars 9,15 and 23.
We then masked the wings using dog legs. We dropped in spot lines from the grid using header blocks in the grid. We had 3 pick up points in the grid that would then cleat off on the each fly floor. Once each spot line was tied off to the dog leg bar would could raise to a suitable height in order to tie the 4x12m legs onto. Once tied on we had two crew on the fly floor raising up and one crew on Stage spotting. Legs are raised until you have enough cloth on stage to place a fly weight on. The legs were then neatly fixed to stage using a baton and fly weights to keep it stretched. We also found that by using a stretcher on back corner of each leg and tying it off to the counterweight cage and wall on p/s side wing, this also helped with straightening out the creases.
Scottish Ballet Cloth
The Floor
As Done In Ballet 2012
The ballet floor has been borrowed from Scottish Ballet. It has been made up of four pieces of Harlaquin Cascade dance floor 12 metres by 2 metres laid lengthways across the stage. Then two pieces of Rosco dance floor along the sides to increase the overall width. Tim Plamer, the production manager for Scottish Ballet sent detail instructions of how to lay the floor which is now in the URE Book Laying Balletfloor.
The Screen
As Per Ballet 2012
A brand new back projection screen was ordered for the show. It measures 14x7m, it has eyelets at the top (the centre one is marked with a sharpie mark and a piece of white LX tape) and is double folded at the sides. It's pocket at the bottom is large enough for a piece of scaff and when weighted down with scaff and left floating very slightly it does not need stretching. The fasterners for the top of the screen are made by Gerriets and are called G-Quick. There are 69 of them and one marked centre.
The screen is very prone to damage so care must be taken when putting it up and taking it down. Instructions for taking it down and folding it can be found here; Folding the BP screen. It should also be insured lighting is a suitable distance away from the screen.
Production Team
- Production Manager - Sandy McRobbie (staff)
- Stage Manager - MArian Sharkey
- Deputy Stage Manager - Rosie Barber
- Technical Stage Manager - John Beggan
- Chief Production Electrician - Ben Terry
- Deputy Production Electrician - Stuart Lord
- Lighting Operator and Programmer - Rebecca Coul
- Sound Designer and Operator - Greame Brownl