1st Edition
Dance and Light The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design
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
Biography
Kevin Dreyer is a freelance lighting designer and an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame.
