DANC 1271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: W. M. Keck Observatory, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable
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Becoming a stage manager requires both artistic and technical stagecraft skills, since it often requires dealing with creative temperaments and technical glitches at the same time. All demand putting the work ahead of any one individual wile ensuring every individual is treated with respect. Ex officio: by position, have a job in the company but have to be on board. Making sure they educate, and give back to the community. Has full artistic and in some cases managerial authority over a not-for-profit organization. The list of responsibilities goes forever, but the most important are the setting and maintaining of artistic policy and selection of repertoire (programing: a long term company will develop a body of patrons. If you change your artistic direction, you must convince your patrons to go along with you: this means you either do the same thing forever or you do the work of selling the new product.