TECH RIDER INFO FOR BLUE CEILING DANCE TOURING PROJECTS: heat death AND heartless

 TECH RIDER INFO FOR BLUE CEILING DANCE

TOURING PROJECTS: heat death AND heartless


Technical Specs: All of my touring projects are made to be flexible for theatre and non-theatre spaces. General requirements are a non-concrete floor, ideally a sprung or wood flooring. Some works are suitable/negotiable for outdoors on grass or asphalt.


Current touring projects:

heat death: made for theatre and non-theatre-spaces (galleries, science institutes, other site-specific settings) 

TECH RIDER: audio playback; performance space minimum or 20 x 20  and ideally a non-concrete floor (negotiable depending on the setting)


heartless:

Premiered at the Citadel Ross Centre for Dance (Citadel + Cie) in Toronto; suitable for black box or similar theatre setting.

TECH RIDER: (based on premiere – negotiable depending on space)

-the show uses audio playback only, no microphones except potentially for opening remarks if applicable

-the show used no masking, and the background was a red brick wall. The environment will be decided upon per venue, however a bare cyc will not work, it will need to be either a cyc+black scrim or an alternative neutral background. 

-the lighting for the show is operated from an etc. console. An Element, Ion, or Nomad system will suffice. 

-instrumentation will vary in each venue but the premiere at the Citadel has the following:

-7x Lustr-70deg with gobo holders as low backlight;

-8x Lustr-50deg on 4’ booms as low sides;

-8x Lustr-50deg as tips;

-8x Selador vivid washes as foots;

-5x Selador vivid washes as fronts;

-2x Lustr-36deg as boom specials;

-8x Selador vivid washes as background (cyc) lighting;

-6x 750w standard S4-50deg on floor plates as upstage wall blinder-type specials


Please contact us for more information

Lucy Rupert, artistic director, Blue Ceiling dance

blueceilingdance@gmail.com







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