Blog #4

For my blog post this week, I chose this photo from Dance Escape two years ago. It was captured from a piece called Eyes of Your Eyes; choreographed by Andrea Ordaz and with original lighting design by Morgan Embry. This was the ending moment of the piece, before the lights completely faded, and the many elements that are at play here in this picture are closing notes of the elements Morgan was exploring and working with throughout the entirety of the piece. She used little to no color and was in fact playing with "white light" (even though we learned in Lighting History/Color Theory that white light does not exist). Instead of color, she focused on intense angles, varying intensities (whether extremely bright, or minimal vision on stage), and lots of texture from both gobos and distinct choices on where the source of light was coming from (like directly overhead in this picture or lots of side-lighting in the beginning).
The major successes of her lighting choices, all contributed to the fact that she created a world for us. The atmosphere of this piece was so unique and as a dancer, I found myself convinced that I was, at least for a short time, existing in this world that both Morgan and Andrea collaborated to create.
I chose this example because we talk about feeling a lot in class, and when I think about how lights make me feel, or have made me feel, this piece is prominent in my sensory memories, because it was successful in making me feel exactly what the choreographer, and Lighting Designer, was hoping they would.