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Aerial Performance Rigging Workshop Mar. 1-2
Posted February 19, 2008
Note: Sounds awesome. Posted as received.
España/STREB Trapeze Academy
Presents
Aerial Performance Rigging
A Workshop for Performers and Riggers
Saturday, March 1, 2008 11:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, March 2, 2008 11:00am – 6:00pm
At SLAM:
51 North 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
The Workshop will include:
- Safety and risk-management principles and best practices
applicable to aerial performance rigging in particular and
entertainment rigging in general.
- The physics of aerial performance, the forces and loads that
aerial circus and dance performance puts on rigging systems and
equipment, and the selection of appropriate equipment and hardware to
withstand those forces and loads.
- Some theory and a lot of practice. We will rig and fly on a
number of different systems, and you will have the opportunity to work
with various kinds of equipment. Using computerized load cell
technology, we will demonstrate and measure the actual loads that
aerial performance puts on rigging systems, as well as the actual
breaking strength of system components.
This workshop will not make you a qualified rigger. It will, however,
help you to be safer and more responsible as a rigger, performer or
teacher. You will know what you can safely (and what you should not)
rig yourself, what to say to the professional riggers you may be
dealing with, and how to use your eyes and ears to identify
potentially unsafe situations. Finally, it will provide a number of
tried and true "fail-safe" practices which can be used safely in many
everyday rigging situations.
TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION:
strebusa.org / email: trapeze@strebusa.org
718-384-6491 AFTER 7pm weeknights
Participants may register for the entire workshop, or for the first
day only. Basic rigging principles and practices will be covered on
the first day. The second day, building on the first, will cover a
number of more advanced topics.
Workshop Cost: $400 (both days) or $225 for Day 1 only.
Workshop Leaders
Delbert Hall is a recognized authority on rigging for aerial
performance, with more than thirty years of experience in production,
system design, and teaching. He is an ETCP-Certified Theatrical Rigger
and an ETCP-Recognized Rigging Trainer. The founder of Hall Flying
Effects, he is also a former Flying Director for ZFX Flying Illusions.
He currently serves as a freelance aerial effects consultant, and as a
professor of theatre at East Tennessee State University. He is the
moderator of the Yahoo Aerial Rigging Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aerialriggers/).
Jonathan Deull has been a student of aerial performer rigging since
1998 when his daughter began performing as a circus aerialist at the
age of seven. He has designed and executed aerial circus and dance
rigging both in the US and internationally, and is the author of the
chapter on rigging for a forthcoming book on aerial dance. A
co-founder of AirBorne! DC, he currently works freelance on theatre
and special event production and design projects, teaches seminars on
aerial performer rigging, and serves on the performing arts faculty at
Edmund Burke School in Washington, DC.
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