In the Heat of Our Own Pictures
A Performance

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The Performance Bridge [Getting on and off the Stage] is a curriculum under development funded by the continuing education programme Leonardo da Vinci of the European Union.

This new curriculum focuses on the needs of performers, i.e. dancers, actors and musicians. It addresses both the young performing artists in transition from school to their professional carreers and mature artists in transition from the stage to other supporting professions in the theater.

We anticipate this curriculum being available to the profession by late 2005.

The goal and objective of The Performance Bridge [Getting on and off the Stage] is to develop entrepreneur skills in the young artist and mature artist enabling them to self-produce their own performances.

The curriculum will provide an overview of the following skills:

• Stage Technical Skills: Lighting Design, Sound Design, Costume Design, Videoskills
• Management Skills & Administration Skills : Project Management, Concept Creation, Project Presentation, Budget Development & Accounting, Graphic Design and Writing Skills, PR
• IT Skills: Basic Computer Skills and Internet Skills

The methods of content delivery will be e-learning, online tutoring and live-seminars.

It is not the intention of The Performance Bridge [Getting on and off the Stage] to produce an expert in each of these fields but rather a person knowledgable in handling these elements for creating and producing performances of a theatrical context. Thus the delivery of the information is the major challenge in retraining and expanding employability for performing artists.

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