This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance
lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting
designers, researchers and artists. Showcasing recent examples of work -
with case studies of lighting practices in Britain, Europe, the US and
China - --combined with theoretical and analytical approaches to
practice, this will enrich your understanding of the role and potential
of light in performance and related creative practices.
This volume explores three core themes and provides a framework for
thinking through the role of light in performance:
- Experience - considers both the audience's experience of light and
the ways in which light influences the experience of performers
- Creativity - examines both the creative, performative capacities of
light in performance, as well as the creative practices of lighting
designers
- Meaning - offers an expanded view of performance aesthetics by
examining the capacity of light to influence and generate meaning within
performance.
The case studies are drawn from a wide-array of lighting practice,
including: Jennifer Tipton on the role of light as a structural language
in performance; Jesper Kongshaug on the lighting of Copenhagen's Tivoli
Gardens; Lucy Carter on her work in installation and dance; Psyche Chui
on the productive fusion of Western lighting techniques with
contemporary Chinese opera; Katharine Williams on the role of light in
feminist political theatre made by RashDash; and Paule Constable on
storytelling with light in a range of productions, including War
Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Angels
in America.
