Site Specific Performance: Getting Out There

Producing and Touring
Date20/05/2010 - 10:00 to 17:00
Trainers
Members Price£100.00+VAT
Non Members Price£160.00+VAT
LocationITC Training Room
Click here to download a Booking Form
Course Outcome: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explore why site specific performance is relevant to their work.
- Know who and how to negotiate with: council, owners of the site, etc.
- Understand the particular requirements of working in a non-theatre venue. Including on-site management, technical specifications, providing for performers, funding, marketing, audiences and hidden costs.
- Get advice on their specific project.
Target Audience: This one day course is aimed at performers, directors, writers, producers, administrators and anyone who is doing, or wants to do, site specific work.
Approach: The morning session will be devoted to going through the stages of planning a site specific show and exploring several examples of site specific work and how they were managed.
The afternoon will be looking at a specific project, asking participants to plan and trouble shoot. Then we will discuss the participants’ specific projects.