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Before I took on my new job responsibilities for my internship, I am the Production Assistant for my Exec. Artistic Director Jamel Gaines. We had an amazing opportunity to go to Accra and Cape Coast in Ghana for a performance! We left after our annual Black History Performance at BAM Fisher. We stayed there for 9 days, experiencing Ghana’s culture and then doing a cultural exchange between our dance theater and their national dance theater, as well as the local universities.
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Making sure everything was running smooth with music and the visuals for the production was my responsibility, since the production was multimedia I was to make sure all of the pieces of media were cohesive and changed on cue. All of this had to be done manually, so I was on the projector and changing it like a slideshow while the Mr. Gaines was on the audio but we couldn’t see each other during the show but I have seen his piece about 50+ times in the last 5 years so it wasn’t too complicated to doing timing with each other.
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