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COURSE CONTENT

Las Vegas and Chicago
  • Four Days
  • Intensive Arena-style Rigging
  • Principles and Practices
  • Hands-on Training
  • Taught by Harry Donovan
  • The Las Vegas class includes a demonstration of rigging at Cirque du Soleils’s show KA
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    		Atlanta and Seattle
  • Four Days
  • Combined Stage and Arena-style Rigging Principles and Practices
  • Hands-on Training
  • Taught by Harry Donovan and Bill Sapsis (Atlanta) or Jay O. Glerum (Seattle)
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    Safety

  • Safety factors
  • Safe and unsafe rigging practices
  • Reducing risk and damages
  • How to avoid accidents

    • Liability

  • Your liability exposure
  • Risk management
  • Reducing your liability
  • Reducing your legal costs

    • OSHA Regulations on Rigging Equipment

    • Legal and illegal rigging practices and equipment

    Engineering Principles of Rigging

  • Vectors and formulas
  • Finding dimensions, forces,and size of gear
  • Load distribution
  • Forces on venue structures

    • Characteristics of Rigging Materials

  • Fiber rope, wire rope, chain, webbing, spansets, hardware, and fittings

    • Rigging Components

  • Design factors, selection, and use
    		• Arena-style Rigging Principles and Techniques Arena-style rigging is the primary rigging method for every entertainment venue except counterweight-system theatres. Arena-style rigging is used in traditional theatres for point loads.
    • Hitches, deadhangs, breastlines, bridles
    • Safe equipment use
    • Working techniques
    • Fast and efficient rigging methods
    • Rules of thumb
    • Rigging for lights, sound, video, roofs, scenery, any point loads
    • Used in arenas, coliseums, stadiums, hotel ballrooms, trade and conventions centers, movie studios, sound stages, airplane hangers, warehouses, factories, churches, schools, airdomes, amphitheatres, indoor-outdoor venues, portable outdoor roofs, and theatres

    Rigging Permanent Installations

  • Theatres, arenas, concert halls, studios, churches, schools
  • Safe and fast installation methods
  • Approved equipment for overhead lifting

    • Stage Rigging Systems

  • Hemp, counterweight, block and tackle

    • Operation Procedures

  • Loading and unloading
  • Cuing
  • Showtime operation

    • Inspection Procedures

  • Component and system inspection
  • Maintenance and record keeping

    • All seminars include Hands-on
    Practical Rigging and Inspection.

    • Knots, cables, hitches, bridles, and hanging points
    • Practice with equipment and safe working techniques
    • Inspection of rigging equipment

    Please note: This course is ON THE GROUND ONLY - NO HIGH RIGGING OR CLIMBING!

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