The Art of Light on Stage: Lighting in Contemporary Theatre - Brossura

Abulafia, Yaron

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ISBN 10: 1138913685 ISBN 13: 9781138913684

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Riassunto

The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume, award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light, charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated.

The book examines the evolution of lighting design in contemporary theatre through an exploration of two fundamental issues:

1. What gave rise to the new directions in lighting design in contemporary theatre?

2. How can these new directions be viewed within the context of lighting design history?

The study then focuses on the phenomenological and semiotic aspects of the medium for light – the role of light as a performer, as the medium of visual perception and as a stimulus for imaginative representations – in selected contemporary theatre productions by Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Heiner Goebbels, Jossi Wieler and David Zinder.

This ground-breaking book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the future of performance.

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Contenuti

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Context

The Questions

Main Themes and Objectives

Motivation and Goal

Towering Figures in the History of Theatre Lighting Design

Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905)

David Belasco (1853-1931)

Adolphe Appia (1862-1928)

Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966)

Light and the Theatre of the Symbolists

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Josef Svoboda (1920-2002)

Conclusion

Light Art – the Rising Autonomy of Artificial Light

Light in the Visual Arts

Conclusion

Theoretical Framework

Semiotics

On the Adaptation of Semiotics to the Framework of Theatre Studies

A Critique of Structuralist Semiotics for Theatre Analysis

Phenomenology

On the Phenomenology of Embodiment

On the Adaptation of Phenomenology to the Framework of Theatre Studies

Mediology

On Art and the Neuro-Cognitive Sciences

Light, Colour Response and Neuroscience

Conclusion

A New Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Light

A Few Notes on Practicality

Getting started: What Should We Seek Out through the Aesthetic Analysis?

What should we seek out through the Semiotic and Poetic analysis?

Six Grounds of Representation

Narrative

Character

Theme or (Dramatic) Action

Atmosphere or Emotion

Sensation of Light Itself

Open Meaning

Dramaturgy of Light

Introduction to Performance Analyses

Madama Butterfly

Introduction

The Light-Image of Butterfly’s First Entrance

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

The Dramaturgy of Light in Madama Butterfly

On the Concept of the Face, regarding the Son of God

Introduction

Scenography and costumes

The course of action – the opening scene

"Let the Little Children Come to Me" (Matthew 19: 14) – the 1st light-image

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

"Let the Little Children Come to Me" (Matthew 19: 14) – the 2nd light-image

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

The Resurrection of the Face – the closure scene

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the light-image

The dramaturgy of light in On the Concept of the Face regarding the Son of God

Stifters Dinge

Introduction

Light-image: Waves of Light

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

The Dramaturgy of Light in Stifters Dinge

Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)

Introduction

On the Structure and Characteristics of Rechnitz

The Shooting Scene – 1st Light-ImageAesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

The Town Residents – 2nd Light-Image

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

The Dramaturgy of Light in Rechnitz

Peer Gynt

Introduction

About the Adaptation of the Play

Young Solveig and Aase Seek Peer – 1st Light-image

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Peer Nurses Aase on her Deathbed – 2nd Light-Image

Aesthetic Analysis of the Light-Image

Semiotic and Poetic Analysis

The Dramaturgy of Light in Peer Gynt

Epilogue

Appendix: Glossary

Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138913685
• ISBN 13: 9781138913684
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256