{"product_id":"contemporary-performance-lighting-experience-creativity-and-meaning-9781350195165","title":"Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Katherine Graham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - Direction \u0026amp; Production\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers and artists. Showcasing recent examples of work - with case studies of lighting practices in Britain, Europe, the US and China - --combined with theoretical and analytical approaches to practice, this will enrich your understanding of the role and potential of light in performance and related creative practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume explores three core themes and provides a framework for thinking through the role of light in performance: \u003cbr\u003e1. Experience - considers both the audience's experience of light and the ways in which light influences the experience of performers\u003cbr\u003e2. Creativity - examines both the creative, performative capacities of light in performance, as well as the creative practices of lighting designers\u003cbr\u003e3. Meaning - offers an expanded view of performance aesthetics by examining the capacity of light to influence and generate meaning within performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe case studies are drawn from a wide-array of lighting practice, including: Jennifer Tipton on the role of light as a structural language in performance; Jesper Kongshaug on the lighting of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens; Lucy Carter on her work in installation and dance; Psyche Chui on the productive fusion of Western lighting techniques with contemporary Chinese opera; Katharine Williams on the role of light in feminist political theatre made by RashDash; and Paule Constable on storytelling with light in a range of productions, including \u003ci\u003eWar Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAngels in America\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45031784546455,"sku":"9781350195165","price":2940.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350195165.webp?v=1769207224","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contemporary-performance-lighting-experience-creativity-and-meaning-9781350195165","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}