{"product_id":"contemporary-performance-lighting-katherine-graham-9781350195165","title":"Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350195162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350195165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Katherine Graham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071392379135,"sku":"9781350195165","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b3aea78-e56a-40ca-a882-c3a41384fbeb.jpg?v=1685435824","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contemporary-performance-lighting-katherine-graham-9781350195165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}