A once in a lifetime opportunity for Entertainment Technology students from St. Clair College.
Four students, along with Program Coordinator Dan Rehel, recently travelled to China for 30 days to study 'The House of Dancing Water,' a $300-million production similar to Cirque du Soleil.
The trip was made possible through an agreement between St. Clair and Chinese production company Melco/Dragone Entertainment which will allow the college to send several students each year.
Rehel says this is as good as it gets for students.
"They were very, very excited and thrilled to be a part of it," says Rehel. "They were learning things that, just in the nature of the scale of this type of production, that we couldn't effectively show them here, even just from a budgetary standpoint. So it's a great learning opportunity for them."
A look inside the control room at 'The House of Dancing Water' (Photo courtesy of 'The House of Dancing Water' via Facebook)
'The House of Dancing Water' features the world's largest performance pool at over 5-million gallons with over 90 technicians and 70 performers putting on the production five days a week.
- with files from AM800's Peter Langille