Lighting Dance: A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows

ISBN-13: 9780367219178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio

Opis

This book pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow and improvised dance movement, it analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: Without light there is no shadow; Chapter 2: Shadowing dance:; Chapter 3: The behaviour of shadows in artforms; Chapter 4: Theories of shadows and their possible applications in dance practice; Chapter 5: Playing with shadows; Chapter 6: Sombreiro, a shadowy dance performance; Afterword; Appedices; The experiments

O autorze

Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio is a Professor at the Bahia Southwest State University, Brazil. She has studied Dance at Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. level, and has been researching dance lighting since 2004. Her works have been presented in the UK, Japan, Brazil, and Czech Republic.