Performance Lighting Design

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Designing with light for live performance is a complex mixture of craft, collaboration and art. The designer paints with light - revealing form and composing a living picture from collections of objects and bodies in a given space. Performance Lighting Design is a practical guide to the art and technique of lighting for the stage. It is a handbook for professional practice from first concept to the development of design ideas, planning, realisation of the lighting rig and on to public performance. It introduces concepts, technologies, ways of working and includes a section on analysing the finished design. Boxed sections offer practical and helpful information. This new and fully revised second edition brings the guide right up to date, including new material which takes into account the considerable advances made in several areas of technology for lighting design in live performance, including LED luminaires, affordable bright digital video projection, and the now commonplace use of moving lights. The new edition also includes recent research into contemporary lighting practice, addressing emerging trends in the approach to lighting the stage, particularly for drama. Combining practical information with aesthetic considerations, Performance Lighting Design is the ideal book for students and practitioners of stage lighting working on and for the contemporary stage.