P. Tchaikovsky's
The Sleeping Beauty
performed by Durham University Ballet Company
This was a small project I did as a freebie for Durham University Ballet Company, as a return favour for them providing me with a test audience for Doctor Coppelius. They were short of someone to design/operate the lights at the Gala, and I've always wanted to operate the lights at the Gala, so it was a win-win situation as far as I was concerned.
Quite a challenge, as I had about eight hours to get the hang of a lighting console I'd never seen before and work out what looks good as a lighting plot on a stage whose size I've never operated on before. For this particular console, one thing I learned the hard way was that if you press the innocent-looking Escape key, it buggers up everything and I have to make another embarrassing trips to the senior Gala techie to fix it. There were still some teething problems in the first performance. But I thought the second one went pretty well, and I was quite pleased with what we ended up with.
Gallery
Past Performances
Gala Theatre: 14th & 15th June 2024