Hi everyone!
Being a dance major, I am expected to fulfill certain requirements that the dance board proposes. These reuired courses include ballet and modern technique classes, anatomy for dancers, theory classes, composition classes, and history classes. Two other major requirements are performance units and crewing units. Dance majors are reuired to have 6 performance units at 2 units each, and 3 crewing units at one unit each.
Right now, I am fulfilling my first crewing requirement. The kind of crewing I am participating in is stage crewing for a dance show next weekend. We have been meeting every night since this past Monday and will continue these until the show is over. Basically, being a part of stage crew is surprisingly challenging. I expected to just change the little color for the side lights for the stage, sweep the floors, and learn some termanology of the stage. It turned out to be hanging lights, focusing light, queing lights, flying curtains in and out, mopping and other minor details that i didn't realize even happened during a show.
It's a long and tiring process, but i'm learning a lot about what it takes to put on a dance concert, and I'm even building a little muscle from flying to curtains in and out!
Many people think dancing is just for fun, i certainly did before. Now I believe it takes hard work and it is not easy. It is fun and hard to accomplish anything and hopefully you finish your long and tiring process and achieve something that will help you put on a dance concert. Goodluck on learning new dances and fulfilling your requirement.
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