What do the dancers need?
Besides the usual dressing facilities with mirrors, showers and HVAC, the dancers need warm up time, and enough time on stage for blocking and spacing. We can, (depending on the complexity of the concert), move into a theatre in the morning and run a show by 8:PM. Ideally though, (and this again depends on the complexity of the performance), we like a minimum of two days in the theatre. Day one for tech, and day two for dancers. Here in Tucson, we usually have three to four days in the theater for preparation before a show. On tour, where time is tight, we can generally prepare the space in two days, or, with a little planning and a proper crew, one day. When traveling, dancers cannot perform on the same day they travel. This is especially true for long drives or plane flights. Dancers require at least two warm up days before performing while on a tour that has them traveling more than 500 miles from our home studio in Tucson, Arizona.
