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Aerial Performance Rigging Sept 19–20
Posted August 16, 2009
Note: Viveca attended a rigging workshop with Jonathan Duell at the AYCO Educator Conference last summer. Dude knows his stuff. Posted as received.
España/STREB Trapeze Academy
Presents
Aerial Performance Rigging
A Workshop for Performers and Riggers
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 which 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 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 that can be used safely in many everyday rigging situations.
When:
Saturday, September 19, 2009
12:30pm–7:30pm
Sunday, September 20, 2009
10am–6pm
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.
How Much:
$400 (both days) or $250 for Day One only
Where:
SLAM
51 North 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
How:
To register or for more information, email trapeze@streb.org, visit streb.org, or call 718-384-6491 (seven days/week; 9:30am–11pm)
Who (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 recently launched a new theatrical performer flying effects company, D2 Flying Effects. 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 and a Professor of Theater 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 1996 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 the recently published book, Aerial Dance, by Jayne Bernasconi and Nancy Smith. A co-founder of AirBorne! DC and director of Zip Zap Circus USA, he currently works freelance on theater and special event production and design projects and teaches seminars on aerial performer rigging. He is an ETCP Certified Theatrical Rigger and ETCP Recognized Rigging Trainer.
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