Thread: teaching on a stage

Hello

for a festival in september i'll be teaching 4500 students!!!. that sounds cool doesnt it?

now back to reality: it's a university student thing, on a square outdoor, and they will "split up into groups". i'll be teaching mini workshops, half an hour each, standing on a stage for i'm guessing a few 100 each time.

i told them i would need a headset and a stage to teach this size of group. they said ok "how big should the stage be".

thing is, i dont know!! how many square metres

any other advice? they are in the planning phase so now would be the time to ask them/tell them what i want

Artemisia

That's great that you will have a stage to teach from!

No, advice, just WOW, congratulations!

Hey,

Funny that you should mention this, but I just finished performing and teaching on stage this past Saturday for a client's grand opening. The stage I taught on was about 20 feet long by 15 feet wide.

When we got to the lesson portion, about 15 ladies got on stage and there was still room for everyone to be dead center on stage. Soo, to directly answer your question, I would say about 30 ladies could have crouded onto the stage, comfortably. I also had several of my students as assistants to help with all of the bellydance moves being taught as I stood at the front of the stage to demonstrate to the audience.

Make sure whatever stage size you get, make sure it can handle the weight of the amount of people on the stage to ensure it doesn't bow in the middle and ALWAYS have one assistant available per 20/30 people that way everyone feels that they are being serviced.

Hope that helps!!

Good luck!!

oh, the other people wont be ON the stage, there will be 100ds of them, it would just be me on the stage... i dont think i'll have anyone come up with me. so i'm wondeeing what size i should ask for for just me.

i quoted them a price for bringing in several instructors, and they dont have a budget for that. i was thinking of bringing some advanced students with me, but i dont really want to do that as i feel they would be working and would need to get paid. and they are really just paying enough for just me

Having done a few things on portable stage sections, I would say it's very important for it not to be too small, because your attention is on the students. You don't want to be worrying about accidentally stepping off the edge as you move around! And the higher it is, the bigger it should therefore be.

The last place I dealt with portable stage sections had them in 6 foot by 4 foot (2m by 1.3m) pieces. They put four of them together in a square for us (so it was 12ft by 8ft) and since we weren't moving around too much, that was okay. If you won't be doing very much traveling, that might be a good size for you to start with.

Here's your chance to be on a pedastal! *chuckles* Ok that wasn't helpful. You might want to make it pretty high up so that many people can see you though. For a personal space I can't see you needing more than 4x6 meters. Unless you're teaching a lot of walks... what kind of stuff are you doing?

Yours,
~*Genisis*~

really basic total introduction, half an hour per group of a few 100 assuming i have to start from zero, LOL. so pretty damn basic. so probably some slightly sped up, dramatized version of my normal tasters. i'll test out some stuff at home what works when little personal interaction is possible

the size of the stage would depend on how much moving around you plan on doing. for instance, if you teach them a side step, how many steps do you repeat? that would be the minimum distance i would ask for.
being up on a stage is great from the student perspective. they will be able to see everything clearly.
congratulations and good luck!

Originally Posted by artemisia_danst

really basic total introduction, half an hour per group of a few 100 assuming i have to start from zero, LOL. so pretty damn basic. so probably some slightly sped up, dramatized version of my normal tasters. i'll test out some stuff at home what works when little personal interaction is possible

This sounds fun! And I thought I could teach *anyone* to shimmy, until I came across a lady who could not or would not move her knees separately. She just kept plieing.

Good luck