moving through lightscapes

Dress Rehearsal l i g h t o u c h  26.09.13

These 'capturings' of the piece were a means of documenting the performance. The stage lighting had to be 'amplified' to meet the requirements of the camera. The choreography throughout plays with thresholds of visibility as the dancers move through minimal lightscapes* into the depths of shadow. The camera's 'capturings' offer a different representation of what was. 

                                  scene iii

                                  scene iv

                                 
                                 scene ix

                                          scene xi

*lightscapes…

... is a neologism I have coined to replace the more commonly used expression lighting state. I feel that the idea of moving through a lightscape offers the dancers a different way of being with the light to that which is implied by being in a lighting state.