CCP holding workshops on theater production

WHEN we attend a theater performance today, usually in the evening, the show is commonly set in an indoor stage illuminated by artificial light.

When we attend an outdoor musical concert together with hundreds of audience, even if we are meters away from the stage, we still enjoy the amplified sound and its variants.

Stage lighting makes the other elements of theatrical production visible. But it does much more, because it plays a major role in creating mood and atmosphere, in emphasizing and subordinating visual elements, and in blending the entire stage picture.

Similarly, sound design is recognized nowadays as the fourth design discipline, along with scenery, lighting and costume. This recognition owes to the development of digitized sound that, in conjunction with computers, permits designers to create and manipulate sound waves, not merely record or amplify them.

In the provinces, tight budget and expensive lights and sounds equipment has spurred the invention of alternative ways to illuminate and amplify a stage performance.

But with the prices for equipment becoming less expensive, with some entrepreneurs renting out performance equipment like lights and sound, the young breed of performing artists and technicians must now learn how to handle these tools of technology.

On the other hand, in mounting a theater production or managing an event, two teams interplay: the artistic and the production.

The artistic team creates while the other team supports this creating. This is where Stage and Production Management comes in. The first is directly involved in rehearsals, and the second provides the resources for the rehearsals.

In response to this need, the Outreach and Exchange Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) will conduct Capability Building Workshops in Bacolod City on July 25 to 27.

The project is in partnership with the Negros Museum and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. There are three simultaneous workshops that will be offered, namely Lighting Design, Sound Design and the Production Management.

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CCP holding workshops on theater production