Staging Dance

by Cooper,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780878300815
• ISBN10: 0878300813
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-01-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Staging Dance is a practical handbook that covers all aspects of putting on a dance production. It highlights the current diversity of dance activities, choosing examples from working dance groups and from individual dancers. The book includes sections on choreography, music and sound, designing and making gets and costumes, lighting design and technical implementation and stage management. Funding, planning and publicity are also covered. Staging Dance will prove invaluable not only to dance artists, but also those working along side them: musicians, designers, lighting technicians, administrators and directors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	1	(4)
PART ONE	5	(104)
1 The venue	5	(13)
2 Flooring	18	(3)
3 Choreography	21	(14)
4 Music and sound	35	(13)
5 Design	48	(4)
6 Sets	52	(7)
7 Props	59	(4)
8 Costumes and make-up	63	(16)
9 Lighting	79	(10)
10 Stage management	89	(7)
11 Administration, funding, marketing, publicity	96	(5)
12 Rehearsals and production week	101	(6)
13 Health and safety, sanity and therapy	107	(2)
PART TWO	109	(20)
PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANIES	109	(6)
The Jiving Lindy Hoppers	109	(4)
Green Candle Dance Company	113	(2)
STAGING DANCE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE	115	(14)
Transitions Dance Company	115	(4)
The Peter Williams Design for Dance Project	119	(2)
Staging a traditional ballet on student dancers	121	(3)
Royal Ballet Education Project	124	(2)
Joyce Butler School of Dancing	126	(3)
Appendix: film/video resources, bibliography and further reading, useful addresses	129	(5)
Index	134