{"id":63438,"date":"2013-03-10T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=63438"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:07:09","slug":"bates-in-brief-campus-reidys-inaugural-stage-design-award-winning-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/10\/bates-in-brief-campus-reidys-inaugural-stage-design-award-winning-website\/","title":{"rendered":"ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in Brief Campus: Reidy’s inaugural stage design, award-winning website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage Father<\/p>\n

Michael Reidy marched into Merrill Gym with the rest of the crowd for the installation of President Clayton Spencer on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n

But Reidy had a unique perspective on the ceremony: It all played out on a stage that he had designed.<\/p>\n

Seeing the big stage in action \u201cwas quite a thrill, actually,\u201d says Reidy, senior lecturer and managing director of the college\u2019s theater and dance department.<\/p>\n

As inaugural plans evolved last summer and fall, the number of people on stage grew to 100 or so, including the college choir, orchestra and a 19-member platform party.<\/p>\n

With all those participants, Reidy \u2014 whose work as a top Maine theatrical designer goes back decades \u2014 knew that his stage had to provide visual organization for viewers, both in the gym and watching a live Web stream of the event.<\/p>\n

So he rotated the footprint of the square stage approximately 45 degrees, such that a corner, bearing the podium, jutted into the audience. (The cherry-wood podium, designed by Reidy and fabricated by Facility Services craftsmen Thomas Winslow and Danny Sands, also had a prowlike form that accentuated the reach toward the crowd.)<\/p>\n

That angle opened up sightlines for the three video camera operators and the gym audience. For more visual differentiation, Reidy situated each onstage group at a different height. And, thinking of video, he composed an aluminum-and-fabric backdrop onto which different colors could be projected.<\/p>\n

The components had a built-in twist that graced the angular stage with gentle curves. Sheathed in translucent fabric, each column contained an opaque internal panel that gave depth and variation to the light bouncing off.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you walked through the space, the parts appeared to shift and change against each other,\u201d Reidy says.<\/p>\n

Reidy\u2019s team also included trusty student assistants who made sure the technical aspects of two plays and a dance program over at Schaeffer Theatre, a total of 11 performances, ran like clockwork. \u201cWithout the students I really couldn\u2019t do anything that I do,\u201d he says, and that was more true than ever last autumn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fairly intense in our world for a couple of weeks.\u201d \u2014 DLH<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Campus Facts<\/h3>\n

Not Hathorn Hall but Nash House (1849) is the oldest campus building.<\/p>\n

December saw an influx of pine grosbeaks \u2014 they love berries and crabapples.<\/p>\n

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The People Have Spoken<\/h3>\n

The newly redesigned ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ website, which debuted in November 2011, won top honors in a 2012 competition sponsored by eduStyle, a leading website for higher education Web design professionals. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ won top honors in both the judged and People\u2019s Choice categories for Best Overall Website, and won the popular award for Best Home Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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