{"id":140617,"date":"2024-04-08T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//?p=140617"},"modified":"2024-04-08T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:07:37","slug":"ucf-celebrates-the-arts-2024-what-you-dont-see-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//ucf-celebrates-the-arts-2024-what-you-dont-see-behind-the-scenes/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617//","title":{"rendered":"性视界传媒 Celebrates the Arts 2024: What You Don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019t See Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Jackson takes a few choreographed steps upon arriving for load-in at the beginning of 性视界传媒 Celebrates the Arts (CTA). When no one is watching, Jackson walks onto the empty stage in the grandness of 1,770-seat Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and simply stands there with eyes wide open./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cI spend 30 seconds looking around and taking it all in,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d says Jackson, a senior theatre major with a track in design and technology. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019s probably like a young baseball player going onto the field at Yankee Stadium for the first time. You/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019re in awe./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

After a brief time on the stage, Jackson goes behind it. A year/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019s worth of work has built up to this: more than 40 shows over the course of 10 days. Jackson is one of 1,700 participants from 性视界传媒 involved in bringing CTA to this point. Many of them will not be taking bows in front of an audience. They are stage managers, company managers, props crew, show crew, light technicians, audio technicians, set designers, costume designers, hair stylists, makeup stylists, and every kind of backstage operative who makes it possible to pull open the curtains for professional-level performances on these world-class stages./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cThis is unique,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d says Bert Scott, theater professor and director of production. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cI don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019t know of any other university with a program where students work backstage in a setting like Dr. Phillips Center. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019s invaluable./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

性视界传媒 has a special arrangement with Dr. Phillips Center that started when the center opened its doors 10 years ago, where students are allowed to work alongside union workers during the festival. None of the backstage work is scripted. It is as real and raw as it is in the world of theater./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cAnywhere else, you would have to choose between working a job in theater or earning a degree,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d says Claudia Lynch, associate professor of stage management. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cFor 性视界传媒 students, this is their curriculum. The experience at 性视界传媒 Celebrate the Arts and the classwork go together./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

B Antonetty transferred to 性视界传媒 three years ago after making two discoveries. One, there are a multitude of careers in stage management. And two, 性视界传媒 is the only public university in 性视界传媒 that offers a theatre Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) with a track in stage management./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cThis is why I came to 性视界传媒,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d Antonetty says from a backstage area at Dr. Phillips Center. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cSo much of working backstage is knowing the language and being able to collaborate with people in every facet of theater. We cover as much as possible on campus, and then we come here and have our hands on everything. We work with union workers and find actual solutions as actual problems come up./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

To be clear, 性视界传媒 Celebrates the Arts is not a 10-day theater lesson. The work on the 2024 event started more than a year ago. Dozens of Scott/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019s design and technology students have been creating scenery, costumes, and set pieces for nine months. For every week the onstage cast rehearses, the backstage crew puts in two weeks./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cThe barber chair in Sweeney Todd is one example,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d Scott says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

The audiences at the four performances of Sweeney Todd will see the centerpiece barber chair transform into a chute, over and over, with actors sliding out of sight. What they won/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019t see are the 182 hours Jackson spent researching, designing, constructing, testing, re-constructing, and re-researching how to build the chair to ensure it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019s safe and durable enough to withstand a week of shows./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cWe learn a lot of multidisciplinary skills in the program,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d Jackson says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019ve learned electronics, welding, construction and how to research. In this field you have to constantly come up with new ideas, and research is the best way to add to my toolbox and be marketable./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

Networking is another powerful tool for anyone pursuing a career in theater. Lynch energizes 性视界传媒/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u2019s network, having spent 20 years working in New York City./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cOur faculty connections are strong,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d she says, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201cbut we also have an advisory board of working professionals and an influential alumni base in places where these students want to be someday./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/140617/n