Miami University Dance Theatre
Director: Lana Kay Rosenberg
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Dance Theatre is a dance company at Miami University performing in dance styles such as contemporary, modern, ballet, jazz, and sometimes tap. Each semester, the company presents a concert, showcasing innovative and diverse choreography, utilizing the talents of guest artists, faculty, and students. The concerts occur toward the end of each semester and typically happen in Wilks Theater (Armstrong Student Center) or in the Gates Theatre (Center of Performing Arts), all on the Oxford campus.
Concert Preparation Notes
The following is an example of the notes spreadsheets that I created for when Dance Theatre is in their prep phase for a concert. My standard process was that I attended a dry run rehearsal of all the pieces, at which I took my initial notes, then at the tech for each piece I filled in any blanks and added any specific run tasks. The purpose of these documents were for me to know what will be going on during each piece, and to keep track of tasks that need to be done during performance. I also sent these to the stage manager, who is sometimes not present until later in the process, to give them a strong sense of what the pieces will entail.