Production crews in eastern South Dakota.Three and a half hours down I-90. Same roster.
AHLC supplies stagehands and event production labor to Sioux Falls and the surrounding eastern South Dakota market — Brookings, Watertown, and the corridor between. We're based in Minneapolis and we travel our own crew in.
Sioux Falls has grown into a real touring stop. The building calendar is busier every year, and the labor supply hasn't kept pace with it. When a show needs more than the market can comfortably field, that's the call we take.
What you're actually buying. Not a staffing agency's list. A crew off the roster that works US Bank Stadium, Xcel Energy Center, and Target Center — the same people, traveled in as a unit, with a crew chief who already knows what each of them is good at. In a market where the alternative is a pickup call assembled the week of the show, that difference shows up before lunch on load in day.
Rooms in this market
These are the buildings this market's production calendar runs through. We're not claiming a résumé in every one — we're telling you which rooms a call here means. If your show is in one of them, ask and we'll tell you straight what we can put in it.
- Denny Sanford PREMIER Center — the market's arena-tour house — ground rigging, floor crew, spot ops
- Sioux Falls Arena — legacy arena room for mid-size touring, family shows, and conversions
- Sioux Falls Convention Center — general sessions, trade-show floors, and ballroom A/V
- Washington Pavilion — performing-arts house — theater-style calls and seated concerts
- Sanford Pentagon — basketball-configured events, concerts, and corporate buyouts
- Levitt at the Falls — outdoor summer series — weather-aware builds and quick strikes
- Swiftel Center — Brookings — arena concerts, SDSU-market events, convention builds
- Fairgrounds and outdoor stages — Sioux Empire Fair grandstand runs and multi-day festival builds
What we crew here
- Arena and amphitheater tour labor — load in, show call, load out, rigging support, spot ops
- Casino showroom calls — fast one-nighters, small footprints, tight turnarounds
- Festival and fair crews — grandstand builds, multi-day runs, overnight strikes
- Audio, lighting, and video — speaker hangs, truss builds, LED wall, dimmer world
- Stage and carpentry — decking, risers, scenic, changeovers
- Theater and performing-arts calls — deck, scenic, changeovers
- Convention and corporate A/V — general sessions, galas, breakouts, trade shows
- Forklift and dock crew — truck flips, long pushes, freight
Lead time and travel
Sioux Falls is about three and a half hours from the Twin Cities. Most calls there run as an overnight — crew arrives the night before a morning load in rather than starting the day with a pre-dawn drive. Travel and lodging are quoted up front, built into the number you approve.
Give us about a week of lead time where you can. Emergencies still get a real answer — if a show loses its crew and you need hands in Sioux Falls tomorrow, call and we'll tell you straight whether we can make it work.
Booking a South Dakota crew
Send the venue, the date, the event type, and a rough head count. If you're not sure how many hands the call needs, say so — sizing it is part of the job. We respond within 24 hours.
Also working the region? See the full service area, or the eastern North Dakota and northern Iowa pages.
Book a crew
Tell us the gig. We'll come back to you — usually within 24 hours, or the next business day. Prefer to talk? Call (651) 529-0748.
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