Production at Toi Whakaari

Performing Arts Education in Aotearoa New Zealand

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TERM 1 2015

First year students learning about lighting and collaborating with first year dance students. They are in the big teaching theatre here in our building, it’s called Te Whaea Theatre. 

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Through windows and a bus door - Semester One 2015

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Graduates, students and guests. ETNZ 2015 Conference - Big Steps Forward, at our building Te Whaea. ETNZ is an organisation that recognises and supports the technicians, craft persons and designers working in the entertainment industry in New Zealand. This conference has had the biggest turn out ever with people from venues, freelance, hire companies, students, training institutions, festivals & theatre companies from all over NZ.

“It’s good for us to recognise technicians as artists.” 

“If we think of it as backstage craft it raises the expection of the level of skill and training as well as enjoyment that people get being part of shows” 

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From the archives

Design Process this year alongside set and costume first year students 2014. Figuring out how to generate ideas and get to the heart of something with a visual lens to start with. Great skills for technicians and managers to get their heads around for future collaborations thinking about the show and thinking about process.

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TERM 4 Week One

The stage management team are in full flight at the end of the second week of rehearsal for one of the big productions of the year. Productions students are working in many roles on this end of term show across discipline with designers, costumiers and the second year acting class. 

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TERM 4 Week 

In between and through spaces - activity in the building: 

design display boards - after presentations; stage manager student working on Solo’s and staff member sort out room bookings; dance studio in a rare moment of quiet; director, musical director, stage management, designers watching a rehearsal of Courage   

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2015

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TERM THREE Week 7 Included in the festival of new work management students collaborate with the New Zealand School of Dance students. Managers ARE creative and not only with budgets.

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2015

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#dogandbone #audiencecam #lightingbooth #avtech #lightingtech #lightingdesign Lisa Maule (at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)

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#dogandbone #dressrehearsal #notes #stagemanagement #internship #maoritheatre #undertow #terakau #creativelighting #lightingtech #stagemanager #asm

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Staff all so relaxed after our break. Feao is working with all the 2016 newbies sorting them out to start in Feb. #2016 #performingartseducation #toiwhakaari #backtowork #photocopying (at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School)

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#productionmanager #stagemanager #artsmarketing #artsmanagement #performingarts #artsfunding #artssponsorship (at Courtenay Place, Wellington)

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#productionmanager #productioncoordinators #backtowork #2016 #stagemanager #backstage #technicalmanager #technician #entertainment #technology #creativeproblemsolving (at Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre)

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#back #production #performanceart #2016 #productionmanager #design #lighting #sound #stagemanager #producer (at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School)

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#productionmanager #2016 #stagemanager #design #performanceart #producer #lighting #sound (at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School)

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Missing you already. Hope 2016 is panning out well for you all.

Looking forward to meeting the new lot!

(Image from graduate dinner with manaaki from a small group of returning students).