Category: general musings
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My Fair backdrops
Two backdrops. Two days. Twenty hours. One weekend. Well done to my students. Excellent work all around and an essential group effort endeavor. All hands on deck: success. My Fair Lady.
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Hello old friend
Faux wood floor, we meet again. Working with one of my students at Irish Classical tonight for the first paint call of The Winslow Boy.
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Spring Break
It wouldn’t be an academic (and pro) blog if I didn’t include Spring Break. I spent my week walking in the woods, painting my kitchen and building a model. Excellent week off from the books.
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USITT recap
Catching up WordPress on the last few weeks while I jump headfirst into the next month of shows (aka a Tumblr review). A really great week at USITT St Louis. ‘Wear the Wearables’ booth with Jon & Jen couldn’t have gone better. Excellent conference sessions. Connected with UB alum, old…
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Back to back
Spring Zodiaque opens tonight. First show of the semester. Tonight, headed into the theatre next door to start the second. Next week, USITT.
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Botanical Gardens
I spoke at the Botanical Gardens last night where my students had installed sculptures and lighting in the Panama Rainforest Dome and outside the garden’s entrance under the direction of LK. Glowing orbs and a mystic butterfly. Well done. Starting the semester off right. #ubthd #ubusitt
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Pop the cork
Hardly finished post production paperwork for the last of 17 shows in 2016 at the end of December, and already we celebrate a new year. In the midst of the first tech weekend of 2017. Mid-season changeover. Let’s toast to one better than the last, because 2016 was a crazy…
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Thankful
Year 8 of Neglia’s Nutcracker is in the books. A sliver of my views from FOH and the beautiful theatre we inhabit for a week. Designing lighting and calling cues. Party. Nightmare. Snow. Sweets. Mix in some live music, giving thanks with family and friends, and an immersive production of…
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Sponge & Scramble
If these shadows have offended… Nothing like a late night post-dress rehearsal paint call with my students to bring out the loopy in everyone. Sponge glaze layer has made all the difference for this floor edit mid-tech. Finished under the light of our Midsummer supermoon during the witching hour. Scramble!
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…never did run smooth.
Tonight I had a technical rehearsal as a lighting mentor and a prototype bubble tunnel of light to distract me from my continued disbelief that the potential demise of our country is eminent under the abhorrent pres-elect. It’s shocking and sad, disheartening and disappointing. I’m still unsure how to process…
Dyan Burlingame 