SomArt is excited to announce an enriching opportunity for choreographers, directors, and producers through our Production Design Cohort. This program is designed to enhance your production design skills specifically for dance, preparing you to plan your next production for success.
Key Dates
Applications open: Oct. 14, 2024
Applications due: Nov. 14, 2024
Monthly sessions: 2nd Thursday, 6pm-9pm, Dec 2024- April 2025
Dec 12
Jan 9
Feb 13
March 13
April 10
Additional Workshops: TBA, at various days and times according to workshop facilitators’ availability.
Location(s): SomArt @ the Hive (561 Windsor St., Somerville), contingent upon performance/technical rehearsal schedule. Alternative space: SomArt @ the Armory (191 Highland Ave., Somerville) – 2nd or 3rd floor spaces.
Upcoming Cohorts/Workshops
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Past Cohorts/Workshops
Production Design for Dancemakers Cohort Meeting #1 Thursday, December 12, 2024
SomArt is excited to announce an enriching opportunity for choreographers, directors, and producers through our Production Design Cohort. This program is designed to enhance your production design skills specifically for dance, preparing you to plan your next production for success. Applications for participating in the cohort have now closed. We currently are offering participation through audit. This means you can be present for discussion of the topic of each session within the cohort, but more open discussion will be reserved to the last 20 - 30 min. of the session in the interest of time. More about our Production Design for Dancemakers Cohort program
Lighting – Production Design Cohort Workshop with Paul Marr Thursday, January 9, 2025
Join Paul in learning about lighting for dance performance. More about this workshop coming soon! Paul Marr is a freelance lighting designer based in Boston working with numerous dance companies including The Boston Conservatory dance department (BoCo), Tufts University, St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, and The Boston Center for the Arts to name a few. Some recent designs include Nut/Cracked for The Bang Group at The Dance Hall in Kittery, the opera Summer and Smoke at BoC,o and The Addams Family at St. Paul’s. When not designing, Paul works full-time with Blue Man Group as the Electrics Supervisor where he has worked since 2000. This workshop will be recorded via video.
From Ideation to Manifestation with LROD – Production Design for Dancemakers Thursday, January 23, 2025
LROD will be facilitating a ️ workshop on how strategic choreographic design applies to overall vision, time, and scale. This ️ workshop draws on creative-based activations and scaffoldings for dance, performance, and media outcomes with relevant practices. LROD resides in Massachusetts, with a career spanning over 24 years in education, intermedia, and movement. LROD’s sought-after expertise is informed by extensive experience in the field and by presentations and productions at renowned institutions such as Joyce Theater, NYU/Steinhardt, Paramount Theater, Wexner Center of the Arts MetaLab/Berlin, MOCO, and Jacob's Pillow. LROD’s capaciousness exists by re-imaging the boundaries placed on movement in educational settings through research rooted in choreography. LROD’s portfolios include dance, film, design, performance art, intermedia, masks/costumes, dramaturgy, and lighting design, showcased in venues such as the ICA, Harvard Dance Center, Paseo Project, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Currently, LROD teaches at MIT and is a volunteer EOL doula. LROD generates a warmly [...]
More Hats Than Heads: Production design roles for performances big and small. Friday, February 21, 2025
So you're producing a show and you want to add lighting, costumes, and sound design for the first time. Maybe you know about one of those fields, but the other two are a mystery. How many people do you need to help you? How can you organize that work? What are the right kinds of roles to hire to help you fulfill your vision? In this workshop, we will discuss what different roles like a costume designer, a production electrician, or a production manager do to create and execute a design. We'll talk about how performances big and small structure their technical staff and designers. And finally, we'll talk about how to work with production designers and technicians to execute your vision. Led by Lighting designer and theater professional - Justin Pace Open to all.
Sound Check 101: A Workshop for Performing Artists Thursday, March 27, 2025
Join Katye Productions for a HANDS-ON workshop dedicated to performing artists. Learn how to; communicate with sound engineers, choose the right music formats, understand inputs & outputs, balance your tracks for clarity and even playback. We’ll cover tech rehearsals, front-of-house vs. monitors, acoustics, different speaker types for different occasions, cables, mics, backup plans and more so you can perform at your best!
Projection and Media for Live Performance Thursday, April 24, 2025
This workshop will lay out how to think about incorporating projection and media into your live performance. Want to see what's possible beyond playing a movie on the backdrop? Join us! Led by media designer and choreographer Callie Chapman. Topics include: Visioning why you would want to use projection/media in the first place. Fundamentals of projection design: light, color, space, scale, placement, integration with other design elements such as lighting, set, and sound. Integrating projection/media into rehearsals. Cueing software and why it's important. Inputs/outputs and systems. Working with a projection designer and operator. Please bring a computer with Isadora installed if you want to be hands on. We will have a few extra projectors on hand to share. You can opt to use the free version without the ability to save, or you can rent Isadora for the time of the workshop for a nominal amount. We will not have [...]