Jane Cox and Mark Stanley

Day 1-Light as Storyteller

• Why do we use light in performance?
• What are the basic functions and qualities of light?
• Questions to ask a play?
  • Workshop with no-context texts
• Potential Projects
  • Tempo and rhythm-cue placement
  • One idea/Seven Cues
  • Color tells a story
  • What mood is this?
  • Text, movement, music. Do we cue them differently?  What do we look for in the material to motivate change?

Day 2-Light in Space

• Key (motivational light)/ What is fill light?

Highlight and Shadow

• Actors-How do we see people in space? Foreground/background; multi-racial casts
• How do we light and center the person? What is human scale?
• Performers in relationship to scenery, people as surfaces.
• Scenery/Costumes

Lighting drops

Color and costumes

• Light as environment

Abstract vs realism

• Control of space/Breaking up space

Foreground, middle ground, background

Day 3-Communication and Process

• Collaboration with the creative team
• Communication with the crew
• Paperwork and documentation

Each day would follow this rough schedule-

9:30-9:45 Welcome

9:45-11 Morning Session #1- Full group discussion and exploration

11-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12 Morning Session #2- Full group discussion and exploration

12-1 Lunch

1-2 Afternoon Session #1 Group 1 in the labs/Group 2 non-light plot creative/discussion time

2-3 Afternoon Session #2 Group 2 in the labs/Group 1 non-light plot creative/discussion time

3-3:15 Coffee Break

3:30-4 Review Projects Group 1

4-4:30 Review Projects Group 2

4:30-5 Wrap up

In association with the Danish Association of Lighting Designers and the University of Denmark.