Rigging vocabulary

What type of fly system do we have at Angleton High School?

• single purchase counterweight

• hybrid system with counterweight line sets, electric winches, and pick lines

• hydraulic winch

• electric winch

The t-track that holds the weights for the system:

• head block

• lift line

• purchase line

• arbor

The individual lines that suspend the batten.

• purchase lines

• block lines

• lift lines

• deck lines

The line you hold while flying something in or out:

• Lift Line

• Pulley

• Purchase Line

• Rigger

When you are flying something down to the ground, you are flying it:

• In

• Out

• Up

• Away

Check ALL that apply. Before flying something in or out, you should:

• Sing a song

• Hold the line

• Call what is moving and in which direction

• Look for bystanders/hazards

A place to stand when loading/reloading weights:

• loft

• loading gallery

• spiral staircase

• outrigger batten

A seamless white curtain often used for the projection of colored light at the rear of the stage:

• cyclorama (cyc)

• mid traveler

• main drape

• leg

The main drape is what type of curtain...?

• leg

• border

• traveler

• roadie

This is at the top of the purchase line. It takes all of the lift lines and turns them 90 degrees to the loading gallery.

• head block

• loft block

• tension block

• outrigger