You’ve worked a lot of concerts and music festivals, as well as shows by artists at corporate events. Do you approach the two jobs differently from a lighting standpoint? “I do look at corporate show and festival lighting differently, because they are two different animals. All corporate events, including their shows by national artists, tend […]
Can you convey a complex mood using only a single light source? This is the challenge that the Resident Lighting Designer of the New York City Ballet presents to first time students at the classes he teaches at Boston University, where he heads the lighting design program. Although the question may startle some students, it […]
After 12 years, 19 Number One singles and untold touring miles, AMC Entertainer of the Year Jason Aldean isn’t about to take his foot off the pedal. The dust had barely settled from his 2016 “We Are Here” tour back in January, when he announced plans for his current 33-city “They Don’t Know” road show. […]
Moving fixtures have long been used in musicals to one degree or another, but lately they’ve been appearing in a wider variety of productions, including dramas. We aren’t just talking cameo roles either. A growing number of theatre LDs are turning to LED movers, particularly washes, to fill an expanding variety of roles in their […]
Perspective plays a critical role in the approach that this Orlando-based lighting designer and director takes to his work. This is evident not only in the way he’s able to weave myriads of fixtures into balanced coordinated looks, but also in how he defines the role of lighting design. The Parnelli and Tour Link award […]
There is a cinematic quality to Tobias Rylander’s lighting designs. The subtle shifts in shadows, the sharp contrast between light and dark, the bending of scenic elements, all evoke images of the convention defying New Wave films of the 1960s, such as those created by his fellow Swede, Ingmar Bergman. For Rylander, lighting is about […]
For Max Koehler and Ryan Warffuel, LED video walls are more than a medium for displaying stunning breakout patterns and other images. The two young designers, who are partners in Minneapolis-based Antic Studios, view these panels as living, breathing vibrant entities in their own right — and not merely repositories for colorful images. Panels themselves […]
Listening, truly listening, as opposed to simply hearing, has been described as a “rare gift.” If that’s the case, then this universally acclaimed lighting designer is uniquely gifted. Over the past 35 years, Morse has combined his formidable design talents with an uncanny ability to accept and synthesize input from others to reach the pinnacle […]
BIRMINGHAM, UK – The CHAUVET Professional Arena has always been a crowd pleaser at the BPM | PRO Show, but this year it broke all records for popularity. Aside from taking place at a new, larger and more impressive facility – the 16,000-capacity NEC Genting Arena – the event featured a stunningly bright and fast-moving […]
NEW YORK – Mickey Mantle, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter…many of baseball’s greatest legends have experienced butterflies in their stomachs the first time they entered the colossus that is Yankee Stadium. Apparently so too do country music superstars. “I’m nervous as hell,” Garth Brooks, the best-selling solo album artist in the history of the US, said […]
From touring with Snoop Dog, to doing a one off on the rarified grounds of Harvard University, to working rural music festivals Tristan Rudat and his video panels have been welcomed at a lot of places – and with good reason. His walls, which are as likely to be broken into sections as they are […]
NEW YORK – Pink is the most “in” color. Straw baskets are one of the hottest accessories. Pants are getting higher. New York Fashion Week can always be counted on to make some clear trend declarations. Happily, the one thing that always seems to be in style during this week-long (actually nine-day) celebration of haute […]