Q-lab is the industry standard for playing sound and video files in live theater, but this Mac based program has a lot offer choreographers rehearsing in the studio. In this hands-on workshop, Greg Catellier (Emory Dance) and Heather Pynne (Emory Performing Arts Studio) will give you a primer on using QLab in the studio and as a tool to improve the structure of your tech, rather than an obstacle to overcome. We’ll go over the basics and also get into more advanced topics, as time and interest allows. While we will primarily be focusing on audio, we will touch on using QLab for video projection and lighting. Heather will also go over QLab’s little sibling for the smaller Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, etc.): Go Button.

Please bring your own laptop with QLab 4 pre-downloaded. You can find the free software at figure53.com/qlab/ [1]. For Go Button, download the app from the same manufacturer (Figure53) from the app store. Please note that both QLab and Go Button are Mac-only.