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Here are some things I learned yesterday:
1) At the level of true professional theatre, the performers are neither required nor allowed to assist in strike.
2) The Minnesota Ballet is that level of professional theatre.
3) I now know how to adjust the counterweights on curtains.
4) Also, that not being afraid of heights or stairs is considered a useful job skill. (okay...so I learned that at the lighthouse first)
5) I learned that the DECC requires their lights to be taken down and locked up after every event. ALL the stage lights.
6) Some lighting cables weigh more than I do.
7) Rolling up a dance floor is a bitch.
8) Lifting the rolls onto the cart is even more of a bitch.
9) With six people under the conditions implied above, a short strike lasts roughly six hours.
10) Keep moving when you get home afterwards and you won't be as sore the next day. However, for reasons not yet known to me, I have been getting more and more sore as the day progresses.
Also learned, albeit not yesterday, when operating hemp ropes, always wear thick work gloves.
In the absence of work gloves, gaff tape makes a suitable substitute. Looks cool too. But stickiness stays on your hands for days. As do the splinters of hemp that find their way through the tape.
"Ballet" is plural for "mime." They don't wear striped shirts, but I swear the king was wearing a Burger King crown. The other crew members agree. Also...no one EVER dressed in anything remotely like the costumes in this show (Sleeping Beauty). Heraldry wasn't quite that...well, flaming, to put it bluntly.
And finally, when you're writing a thesis paper involving the unicorn evisceration scene from The Once and Future King, you tend to watch the dancer in the unicorn costume with a predatory look in your eye, thinking "if I only had a virgin and a spear..."
1) At the level of true professional theatre, the performers are neither required nor allowed to assist in strike.
2) The Minnesota Ballet is that level of professional theatre.
3) I now know how to adjust the counterweights on curtains.
4) Also, that not being afraid of heights or stairs is considered a useful job skill. (okay...so I learned that at the lighthouse first)
5) I learned that the DECC requires their lights to be taken down and locked up after every event. ALL the stage lights.
6) Some lighting cables weigh more than I do.
7) Rolling up a dance floor is a bitch.
8) Lifting the rolls onto the cart is even more of a bitch.
9) With six people under the conditions implied above, a short strike lasts roughly six hours.
10) Keep moving when you get home afterwards and you won't be as sore the next day. However, for reasons not yet known to me, I have been getting more and more sore as the day progresses.
Also learned, albeit not yesterday, when operating hemp ropes, always wear thick work gloves.
In the absence of work gloves, gaff tape makes a suitable substitute. Looks cool too. But stickiness stays on your hands for days. As do the splinters of hemp that find their way through the tape.
"Ballet" is plural for "mime." They don't wear striped shirts, but I swear the king was wearing a Burger King crown. The other crew members agree. Also...no one EVER dressed in anything remotely like the costumes in this show (Sleeping Beauty). Heraldry wasn't quite that...well, flaming, to put it bluntly.
And finally, when you're writing a thesis paper involving the unicorn evisceration scene from The Once and Future King, you tend to watch the dancer in the unicorn costume with a predatory look in your eye, thinking "if I only had a virgin and a spear..."