Hubbard_Teacher_Guide_-_FINAL

PRODUCTION MANAGER This personhas a variety of responsibilities includingoverseeing set and costume constructionand lighting and sound set-up andoperation before each performance. Theproduction manager coordinates andsupervises all aspects of touring, includingtransporting the equipment andplanning with each theater manager thelighting and special needs required foreach dance.REPERTOIRE Pronounced, “REP-ehtwar”;this is a word of French originthat means the dance pieces a companyperforms.REPERTORY Pronounced “REP-eh-toree”;this is the American English versionof “repertoire” and means the samething (see above). However, use of theword repertory in this phrase, “HubbardStreet is a repertory company” impliesa company that performs the works ofmany different choreographers.STAGEHANDS The crew who sets thescenery on stage or “flies it in” using apulley system. The crew also helps dress,launder and iron costumes, and run thelight board (a computer with all of thedifferent lighting “looks” or cues in it).STAGE MANAGER The person who conductsthe flow of each performance: shesupervises the lighting and sound andcalls the dancers to their places beforethe curtain rises.WARDROBE SUPERVISOR The personwho maintains the costumes and shoes,making sure they are always in goodcondition and that the dancers can movecomfortably while wearing them. Healso oversees the construction of newcostumes for the dancers.SOUND ENGINEER This person isresponsible for music and/or its amplificationduring the performance.UMS 09-1041