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| Posted by David
The lights and smoke for ‘Upper Room‘ are some of the most important parts of the piece. During the intermission before ‘Upper Room’, the tech crew spends the whole time filling the stage with smoke that by the end of the the interval, the dancers cannot see three feet ahead of them. It makes for quite an effect when the curtain goes up. Here is the process towards the beginning, just as intermission is starting.
Dancers warming up during lighting cues.
The smoke thickens. And our lung capacity.
Upper room is a marathon… Picture the dread going through my mind at this moment when I am waiting in the wings, about to go on, knowing what pain is in store for me. It’s like a drug, it’s so painful yet, we always come back for more.
The chaos has begun.
IT HURTS! IT HURTS!
I was close to the end at that moment.
A very cool pic of Sascha Radesky and I. He is mid air in a tour and Im on the floor… doing something.
So we have successfully finished another run of ‘Upper Room’. By the time the ballet is over. Stella Abrera is hunched over in a ball about ready to throw up. For those of you who have seen the ballet, it all seems worth it, the audience loves it and oddly, through the pain, we do too.
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