Dance and Light: The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design

ISBN-13: 9781138338234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 278 str.

Kevin Dreyer

Opis

Dance and Light examines the interconnected relationship between movement and design, the fluid partnership that exists between the two disciplines, and the approaches that designers can take to enhance dance performances through lighting design.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Why Do We Need a Book about Dance Lighting? Or, if It Is All Done with the Same Lights, Why Is Dance So Hard to Get Right?  2. What’s It All About? Or, Dance, Meet Light; Light, Meet Dance  3. Learning about Dance  4. Dance and Light  5. Dance and Space  6. Talking with the Choreographer  7. Communicating with the Dancer  8. A Conversation I Wish I Had  9. Learning the Dance Work  10. Understanding the Piece or How to Approach Cueing  11. Why Did You Put That Light There?  12. Dance and Color  13. Color as a Storytelling Tool  14. The Designer as Storyteller  15. Sharing Your Ideas for the Dance  16. The Designer’s Toolbox  17. The Dance Light Plot  18. Changing Technologies and What They Mean  19. Simple Rules  20. Limitations as Design Ideas  21. On Being the Only Designer in the Room  22. Advice for the Choreographer Who Has to Go It Alone  23. My Partners in the Theatre  24. A Little Help from My Friends  25. Practical Examples Index