Applied Techniques Technical Production

Staging and Technical Production Residency

Locations Kensington
Course Fee $1,550.00
Duration 2 Weeks
Grade Requirements
UPCOMING CLASSES
Mon 13 Jan - Fri 24 Jan 2025
NIDA Kensington, Sydney
10:00am - 5:00pm AEDT
$1,550

Staging and Technical Production Residency

Overview

Elevate your creative practice with NIDA’s immersive Residency Program. Designed for passionate individuals eager to refine their craft, this program offers a unique opportunity to develop essential skills in collaboration with NIDA teaching artists who are industry experts. Whether you’re an emerging talent or an experienced artist, our residencies provide a challenging and supportive environment where your creative potential can flourish. 

Extend your technical production skills and become an essential collaborator of a theatre and live performance team. Explore the diverse roles and responsibilities of production management, mastering processes to lead and coordinate within a creative setting. Gain hands-on experience in lighting and sound design, learning to operate technical equipment in a NIDA theatre space. Collaborate with peers on a group project led by NIDA Open teaching artists, applying your knowledge to manage rehearsals and live performances. Realise the power of visual storytelling through sound and lighting and develop a strong understanding of industry-safe practices while contributing to innovative creative concepts. 

Open to applicants from around the globe, NIDA’s Residencies foster a dynamic cultural exchange, making our program a vibrant hub for artistic innovation.  

Components

Week one Gain insight into the various roles and responsibilities of stage and production management. Learn essential strategies for the planning and co-ordinating of a company of creatives. Examine opportunities for the application of sound design to dramatic texts and use professional equipment to realise a sound design of your own. 

Week two Collaborate with a lighting designer and explore creative approaches in developing a lighting concept for theatre. Learn to rig, focus, and operate lights for live performance. Integrate your staging and technical production skills to bring a short dramatic text to life. 

Prerequisites

No experience necessary. Entry to NIDA Residencies is by selection. Please enrol to lodge your application. 

Delivered face-to-face at NIDA Kensington, Sydney.

For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions.

NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.