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Backstage pass.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 		Format: Online - approximately 877 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Backstage pass.(author narrates the rhythms of preparation, performance and closure that accompany a stage performance)

Article Excerpt
The sound of Chopin on a distant piano--an chide--fills the very clean, open backstage of Yerba Buena Theatre at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The scats are all empty now and the main curtain is down. Backstage is exposed because the legs are up, which means the curtains that are usually hung on the sides of the stage during the show are now dangling high above in the abyss of a ceiling called the fly gallery.

Everything is black or painted black, and the lights that are strategically placed around the space illuminate all the right areas with the right glow. A lamp above the props table reveals six cups, three flashlights, two bullwhips, and a box of swords. There is a light above the rosin...

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