1st Edition
Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century Compilation of Work on Rigging Practices, Safety, and Related Topics
Foreword -Monona Rossol
Chapter 1: Forces & Formulas -Rocky Paulson
Chapter 2: Structural Behavior -Bill Gorlin
Chapter 3: Lighting Truss -Tray Allen
Chapter 4: Arena Rigging -Roy Bickel
Chapter 5: Outdoor Roof Structures -Keith Bohn
Chapter 6: Counterweight Rigging -Karen Butler
Chapter 7: Aerialist Rigging -Stu Cox
Chapter 8: Performer Flying -Joe McGeough
Chapter 9: Stage Automation -Scott Fisher
Chapter10: The Mechanics of Stage Automation -Dan Culhane
Chapter11: Training in the Twenty-First Century (US version) -Eddie Raymond
Chapter12: Training in the Twenty-First Century (UK version) -Chris Higgs
Chapter 13: Working Safely at Height -Bill Sapsis
Chapter 14: Medical Issues in Fall Arrest/Rescue -Carla D. Richters
Biography
Bill Sapsis has been involved in the entertainment industry for over 40 years. In 1981 he started Sapsis Rigging, Inc. and developed the company into an internationally recognized leader in the design and installation of stage equipment. He is a current member of the ETCP Council and Chair of the Rigging Working Group for PLASA NA. He also sits on the PLASA Foundation's Board of Directors and is a member of the Behind The Scenes committee. He is the recipient of the 2010 EVA Swan Award, PLASA NA's highest honor. Bill is a USITT Fellow and a past member of the USITT Board of Directors. Bill also co-produces the highly acclaimed North American Theatre and Engineering Conference in New York City.
"Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century is a useful and highly readable addition to the bookshelf of anyone working in the entertainment industry. It brings an awareness of how rigging interacts with set design, lighting, sound, wardrobe, and just about every other department. I thoroughly recommend that you read it— at least twice." - Alan Hardiman, Lighting & Sound America
"Bill Sapsis’s Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century gives us a collection of writings by experienced working professionals explaining topics on which they are undeniably experts. Taken individually, each fills in a small area of the mental map each rigger has of the ever expanding craft of entertainment rigging. Taken together they begin to document what entertainment rigging has become (and is becoming). We can hope that there will be future editions of this book, with similar anthologies to follow to document in print more of the constantly expanding entertainment rigging body of knowledge." - Steve Nelson, Theatre Design & Technology
