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Contemporary Performance Lighting
Experience, Creativity and Meaning
Series: Performance and Design
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The book explores three core themes: Experience, looking at how light affects audiences and performers; Creativity, examining the artistic capacities of light and the practices of designers; and Meaning, expanding performance aesthetics by analysing light's ability to generate meaning.
Case studies include Jennifer Tipton on light as structural language, Jesper Kongshaug on lighting Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens, Lucy Carter in installation and dance, Psyche Chui merging Western and Chinese opera lighting, Katharine Williams on feminist political theatre, and Paule Constable’s storytelling in major productions like War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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This book is ideal for lighting designers, theatre practitioners, performance artists, researchers in arts and culture, and students seeking to deepen their understanding of lighting as a creative and meaningful component of performance.
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Contemporary Performance Lighting is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting, featuring contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers, and artists. This book showcases 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. It 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:
1. Experience — Considers both the audience's experience of light and the ways in which light influences the experience of performers.
2. Creativity — Examines both the creative, performative capacities of light in performance, as well as the creative practices of lighting designers.
3. 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
- 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
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Contemporary Performance Lighting is hailed as a ‘coming of age’ for lighting design, placing meaning at the heart of the discipline. Deanna Fitzgerald, a leading lighting designer, praises it as a source of inspiration for both seasoned professionals and new designers. The anthology critically celebrates light as a transformative, performative medium, addressing the politics of perception and visuality, and challenging theatrical hierarchies and assumptions.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350195165
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 February 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Illustration: 32 colour and 7 bw illus
Contributors:
- Series edited by Joslin McKinney
- Series edited by Professor Scott Palmer
- Series edited by Stephen A. Di Benedetto
- Edited by Katherine Graham
- Edited by Professor Scott Palmer
- Edited by Kelli Zezulka
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 450g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Katherine Graham is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York, UK and currently co-convenor of the Theatre and Performance Research Association’s Scenography Working Group. She has published work about light in Theatre and Performance Design and Contemporary Theatre Review and has worked extensively as a lighting designer for theatre and dance.
Scott Palmer is Associate Professor in Performance Design at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include chapters that focus on light, space and the technologies of performance and the monograph Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (2013).
Kelli Zezulka is Lecturer in Technical Theatre (Production and Design) at the University of Salford, UK and has previously written for theatre journals and in applied linguistics. A practising lighting designer, she is also a non-executive director of the Association for Lighting Production and Design and editor of its bi-monthly magazine, Focus.
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