Performance Guidelines
We are excited to start the 2021-22 academic year with significantly fewer restrictions for music and performing arts student organizations. Nevertheless, COVID-19 is still present and a threat to the community’s health and well-being. The following guidelines were created in partnership with the College of Arts & Architecture. They apply to rehearsals and performances of music and performing arts student organizations as well as the rehearsals and performances of artists/groups that are hosted by recognized student organizations. The University will continue to monitor local, state, and University COVID-19 mitigation efforts and will modify this guidance should it become necessary.
Rehearsal Guidelines:
Student organizations can ask performers about their vaccination status. Students may choose not to disclose their status. Students who choose not to disclose their vaccination status will be held to the same standard as unvaccinated performers – a mask will be required at all times when indoors.
Masking
Duration:
Performance Guidelines:
For performers/crew
For the Audience
We are excited to start the 2021-22 academic year with significantly fewer restrictions for music and performing arts student organizations. Nevertheless, COVID-19 is still present and a threat to the community’s health and well-being. The following guidelines were created in partnership with the College of Arts & Architecture. They apply to rehearsals and performances of music and performing arts student organizations as well as the rehearsals and performances of artists/groups that are hosted by recognized student organizations. The University will continue to monitor local, state, and University COVID-19 mitigation efforts and will modify this guidance should it become necessary.
Rehearsal Guidelines:
Student organizations can ask performers about their vaccination status. Students may choose not to disclose their status. Students who choose not to disclose their vaccination status will be held to the same standard as unvaccinated performers – a mask will be required at all times when indoors.
Masking
- All performers must remain masked anytime an unvaccinated performer is present when singing or playing a wind and/or brass instrument is occurring.
- Vaccinated performers will be permitted to remove their masks during rehearsals when they are actively performing and when all other performers are vaccinated
- All performers, while offstage, will wear masks
- Performers involved in production capacities other than performing will be masked in any indoor location
- Performers who are singing or playing wind and/or brass instruments must maintain three feet of physical distance
- No physical distancing is required for rehearsals that do not involve singing or playing wind and/or brass instruments
Duration:
- Rehearsals including singing or playing wind and/or brass instruments should last only 50 minutes. All participants should exit the room for 20 minutes so that the air in the room can recirculate. The rehearsal may resume after 20 minutes.
- Remember to account for the 20 minutes of air exchange time in your room reservations
- No breaks are required for a final dress rehearsal
- There are no time limits for rehearsals that do not involve singing or playing wind and/or brass instruments
Performance Guidelines:
For performers/crew
- Masking
- All performers must remain masked anytime an unvaccinated performer is present when singing or playing a wind and/or brass instrument is occurring.
- Unmasking for a performance is only applicable in spaces where a 12 ft distance between performers and audience is possible.
- Vaccinated performers will be permitted to remove their masks during performances when they are actively performing and when all other performers are vaccinated
- All performers, while offstage, will wear masks
- Performers involved in production capacities other than performing will be masked in any indoor location
- Distancing
- Performers who are singing or playing wind and/or brass instruments must maintain three feet of physical distance if reasonable
- No physical distancing is required for other activities
- Duration
- Intermissions of 20 minutes are recommended for performances that last for more than 50 minutes. All audience members and performers who can reasonably do so should exit the venue for the intermission.
For the Audience
- All audience members will be required to wear a mask during indoor performances
- The COVID-19 statement on participation will be posted on entrance doors, printed in programs, shown on screens, and websites. Those performances requiring a ticket, the purchaser must click to accept the statement for the transaction to be processed.
