The dancer spins gracefully on to centre stage and strikes a pose. Gyandev Singh sits in a dark room overlooking the proscenium. He gently pushes two of the 60 switches on the lighting panel. A blue ...

It’s easy to understand why lighting is essential to dance performance. Dancing in the dark is hard to see. But when Brandon Stirling Baker says he wants his lighting design to be essential, he means ...

It's no secret great dances are often inspired by great music. In the case of NobleMotion Dance's upcoming show, however, the choreography is provoked by great lighting. Lighting? That might seem ...

Sara Linnie Slocum, a noted San Francisco theatrical lighting designer whose sense of color and form enriched scores of productions by local and national dance troupes, died Dec. 27 in San Francisco ...

Lollapalooza is about more than just music. The four-day festival is also a general cultural affair — love it or hate it — touching on everything from food to fashion to philanthropy. One of the ...

What’s in a light — a spark, a shot, a shiver? What’s in a touch —a pulse, a pain, a passion? In Anna Sperber’s “Ruptured Horizon,” four performers — Michael Ingle, Alice MacDonald, Omagbitse Omagbemi ...