Contemporary Performance Lighting

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This major collection features critical responses to performance lighting, showcasing contributions from award-winning designers, researchers, and artists. It presents recent work examples through case studies from Britain, Europe, the US, and China, combining theoretical and analytical approaches to deepen understanding of light's role in performance and creative practices. The volume explores three core themes: 1. Experience - focusing on how light affects both audience perception and performers' experiences. 2. Creativity - examining the performative capacities of light and the creative practices of lighting designers. 3. Meaning - expanding performance aesthetics by analyzing how light can influence and generate meaning. Case studies include insights from Jennifer Tipton on light as a structural language, Jesper Kongshaug on Tivoli Gardens' lighting, Lucy Carter on installation and dance, Psyche Chui on blending Western techniques with contemporary Chinese opera, Katharine Williams on light in feminist political theatre by RashDash, and Paule Constable on storytelling through light in productions like War Horse and Angels in America. This collection enriches the discourse on the transformative power of light in performance.