1st Edition
The Art of Light on Stage Lighting in Contemporary Theatre
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Towering Figures in the History of Theatre Lighting Design
2. Light Art – the Rising Autonomy of Artificial Light
3. Theoretical Framework
4. A New Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Light
Introduction to the Performance Analyses
5. Madama Butterfly
6. On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God
7. Stifters Dinge
8. Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)
9. Peer Gynt
Epilogue
Appendix: Glossary
Index
Biography
Yaron Abulafia is an internationally respected and critically acclaimed artist-in-light, whose stirring work has appeared in some of the most familiar European and North American dance and theatre companies including Nederlands Dans Theater, the English National Ballet, Rambert, Staatsballett Berlin, Ballet BC (Vancouver) and the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj (Romania) – to mention but a few. This book is based upon his PhD research at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
