Dance Light

How can light become a partner in movement?

Services

Live Entertainment

Client

Carnegie Mellon University

Duration

Pennsylvania, U.S.A

software

2025

skillset

Creative Direction

Info

An event that brings everyone together to experiment and create a dynamic performance. Dance Light is a annual student-produced dance showcase that highlights choreography, performance, and lighting design.

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Dance Light 2025

To light a dance is to light the soul of the artwork. Not overtake it, but rather support it. Yet, how does one do that when such artwork is on-the-go?

To do that, you need a few pieces to lead.

CHOSEN PIECES

I was the lighting designer for the following two pieces:

Bruises Off The Peach & Fallin'

Design and choreograph lighting for the dance pieces

Objective

UNFOLD PROCESS

Bruises Off The Peach

I wanted to bring the colors of bruise elements into this, while playing with warming the stage slowly. As the days come and go.

Fallin'

I saw this being a play of back and forth, the hot and cold, the slow and rapid. Just like a flickering light.

Dance Analysis

Throughout this process, I analyzed the choreographies before I was able to get a proper film. To start thinking about the cues, we had to know the positions.

Action Plan

Now the vision's there, what does it take to pull it all together?

Making it work

A lot of technical components, it was a rigourous process hence my first proper time rigging the stage items physically.

To then going back to the board and models for coding and testing over and over.