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OPDI-M19: Dance Stagecraft and Production
September 23, 2024 - November 03, 2024
This course introduces elementary technical theatre skills and knowledge. The content covers costumes and props, sound, lighting, scenery and sets as well as front of house and stage management. The purpose of the course is to: equip dance artists and educators with technical theater knowledge and abilities, incorporate stage production elements, and add clarity and richness to the artistic intent of their choreography. Further, information is given for the production of full concerts, recitals, and musical theater shows. The basics of sound, costumes, properties (props), lighting, sets and scenery are presented so that communications with technical designers and crews are clear and professional. Etiquette, respect, roles and responsibilities, cooperation among the departments, and order of the backstage hierarchy are presented. Some text and activities appropriate for middle or high school students will example how a teacher can incorporate stagecraft and production within a dance program. While the text, Drew Campbell’s, Technical Theater for Non-Technical People, may provide more in-depth information than some of our dance people may need, one never knows when opportunities could arise to work in full theatrical productions in state-of-the-art theaters.
Book required: None
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Marty Sprague
<p><strong>Marty Sprague</strong> has over 45 years of experience in dance education (early childhood through higher education), holds an MA, in Dance Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BFA in Dance from Boston Conservatory. She has been involved in program, curriculum, professional, and policy development. She has written and reviewed standards at the district, state and national levels. Marty is co-author, with Helene Scheff and Susan McGreevy-Nichols, of six dance text and resource books (including online content for the textbook). Marty has served on the editorial board for Arts Education Policy Review and JODE. She served on the Dance Writing Team for the NCCAS Dance Standards. Currently, Marty is a course writer and an instructor for NDEO’s OPDI, a Moving For Life Certified Instructor (pending), and is President of Dance Alliance of RI. She has joined the Rhode Island Arts and Health Network Steering Committee to advance the role of Arts in the well-being of all Rhode Islanders. Marty teaches OPDI-112 Implementing the National Core Arts Standards in Dance; OPDI-115: Dance Integration: Re-envisioning the Creative Process; OPDI-M13: Modern Dance Theory and Composition; OPDI-M18: Intro to Choreography in Dance Education: A Process to Teach Students How to Create Dances, and OPDI-M19: Dance Stagecraft and Production.</p>
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Dance Alliance of Rhode Island, Inc. |
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