The start of our internship!

So now we have officially met with both of our companies we will be interning with and I could not be more excited! We will be working for Booking Dance Company first who is a producing agency with 12 of the top US dance companies from all over America.  We have a daily showcase show which will show each of the companies for about 10 minutes as well as a splitbill four days a week which only has either 3 or 4 companies doing an expanded performance of a longer segment of a dance or a few dances.  Jodi, the exec. director was at this festival last year and since has expanded their own festival within a festival to two weeks this year, so we will have a completely different group of 7 companies next week. They have split it up and the two shows performing this week are entitled Lyrical and Beautiful and then next weeks two shows are entitled Athletic and Rock it!  This is such a great opportunity and after going out and flyering on the Royal mile as well as many of the other big dance venues I am really excited to meet the companies tomorrow for tech and to open the show on Sunday!! :) 

After the Booking Dance Companies festival is done we are working with Green Room Presents from New York for the remainder of the festival.  Cal and Stewart the business partners who own Green Room have been at this festival for several years now and Stewart has been coming since he was little.  In addition to producing shows at this festival they have done many of the other Fringe festivals throughout the world this past year, they own two off Broadway theatres in New York, have produced for several TV shows and movies, and one of the current things that is big in the press is that a really big performance at the Fringe this year is co produced by Green Room and the producer currently also producing Spiderman the Musical scheduled to open on Broadway within the next year.  Spiderman is the largest budgeted show on Broadway EVER, whoes budget is OVER $50 mil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  AH!

Such amazing opportunities here at the Fringe and I am SO excited for it to continue to unravel as the festival continues after just officially starting today!  Let the party get started! :)