Spring Dance Concert Tech

Hello Everyone,

This weekend, I attended the tech process of the Spring Dance Concert. I was their on Saturday, and witnessed the teching of Rosanna Tavarez's piece. Fist off, the piece was wonderful. The movement was interesting and clean. With that, the technology was doing the piece a great justice. The song choice was appropriate, and the lighting that was chosen helped paint the picture of the story on stage. As far as the work process that I witnessed. It was a cool relaxed atmosphere that seemed to be flowing wonderfully. The Choreographer, Lighting designer, Stage Manager, and Programmer all seemed to be in sync with one another. I feel it appropriate to mention the fact that the shows director, Hae Kung Lee, was not present at the time of my attendance. To be clear, I am not saying that this fact has any correlation to the relaxed, free flowing atmosphere. One thing that I noticed while our CSULA General Production Manager/House Manager was on deck. is that as a lighting designer coming into a space that is not your own, you may at times receive direction from people outside of the director who has hired you. With that said, this is education theatre, and is structured differently than commercial, and non-profit theatre organizations. One could say that the process is a bit looser. All things considered, I found my time spent in this tech rehearsal to be rewarding.