Greetings. Great site. I’ve been a volunteer stage manager for my daughter’s dance school for the past few years. The school does one recital and a full production of the Nutcracker each year. It’s not a high level of stage management, mostly organizing the little things so that the dance teacher can keep her focus on the dancing. For the stage-tech activities, I rely on other parent volunteers; the lights and sound are provided by the venue, currently a local high school. Just about everything is on a compressed schedule – Load-in and set up during the single dress rehearsal. A tech week is more like a tech half-hour. Then the next night is the show, striking, and load-out. For me it’s been a lot of learning by doing (a tough teacher) and reading. (It’s been a looong time since high school for me, and I was in the band/orchestra and once in a musical, not the stage crew.)
Joe
Joe