Lighting
The lighting used for the performance was heavily side lighting based, this is because side lighting highlights the body well and gives the audience a good focus. Alongside the side lighting, I added in, at points, top lighting; ‘A three-dimensional effect is needed to make the figures and movements stand out from their surroundings and the dancers' bodies are approached as if they were sculpture’ (Cooper, 1998, p81). The lighting may have seemed basic and nothing too exciting but Pilbrow states that: ‘sudden change has to be used with great care and must always be before any difficult sequence a dancer is about to go into. If a big lighting change, of level or direction or height, happens during a complicated movement, this can disorientate the dancers completely' (1997, p125).
Brief Lighting Plan:
Blackout
Projection plays
Side lights fade in
At ball change top lights fade in
At solo, lights dim slightly 2.29
Bring them up again when Brandon enters
Colour wash during improve section, approx 4.30 (when Ami comes back on)
6.46 lose colour wash
8.24 different colour wash, dim lights slightly
10.55 no colour wash, lights bright
End of track, fade to blackout