Learning the piece is only scratching the surface of your role as a designer. It is a critical step in the overall design process because it establishes a common language. Without this step you will have a hard time communicating with both the choreographer and the stage manager. The more significant task, however, is understanding the piece, particularly its structure and the work’s intent. If you cannot get to that point it is difficult to know if you are making the right choices for the piece when you create your design. While the word “right” is relative, in this case I am using it to refer to the design choices that are made from a point of full understanding of the work as opposed ...
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