Our new edited collection, Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning, was published yesterday by @MethuenDrama @BloomsburyBooks. You can order your copy (and one for your library!) at https://t.co/YecWXbi3yg -- just £17.49 in paperback!

Lighting designer #MichaelBreiner explores the evolution of his work on The Valkyrie in Esbjerg, Denmark, using the Northern Lights as creative inspiration, with the potential for light to have significant influence on the staging and production.

In "Language, creativity and collaboration", @kellizezulka provides insight into the usually hidden labour of lighting design, exploring the way collaboration unfolds in technical rehearsals. #CPLbook

Part two is titled "Creativity" and includes chapters from @kellizezulka, #MichaelBreiner, #PsycheChui, @the_same_sky and #JenniferTipton.

@yaronshy then interrogates notions of visual obfuscation in his own and other’s performance work, examining the transformative role of light through attending to levels of illumination, consequent bodily responses and new modes of sense-making. #CPLbook

In ‘Narratives, choreographies and felt experiences of light’, lighting designer @LucyCarterlight draws on her experience in contemporary dance to posit a framework for lighting design that connects to experimental and choreographic scores of performance. #CPLbook

Day 2 of the UK Student Exhibition @pq_festival curatorial meeting starting soon. Students from Plymouth, Bournemouth, London, Derby, Notts, Leeds, Edinburgh etc. @DerbyTheatre Learning Theatre to workshop ideas and prepare for their exhibit in Prague. @DerbyUniArts @weareSBTD

Moving beyond theatre, @kongshaug examines the impact of light on public spaces in his work at Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens. His theatrical understanding of the potential of light to affect experience is supported by empirical evidence of how light influences public behaviour.

📢 Join us for an inaugural lecture SCENOGRAPHY AS MATERIAL THINKING to celebrate @JoslinMcK becoming Professor in Scenography in the @PCI_UniofLeeds Free event open to all. https://t.co/u0YwT0hCMP

#CPLbook @davidshearing’s chapter ‘Felt dramaturgies of light’ explores bodily immersion in light, examining the kinaesthetic operation of light & the framing of perception that light may afford, through analysis of the role of light in his own performance-making practice.

In ‘Theatrical atmospheres and the experience of light’, @scottpalmerx explores how the multiple qualities of light&dark shape audience’s experience of performance drawing on examples from installation & ‘immersive’ relational performances by Fix & Foxy and Punchdrunk. #CPLbook

The first section is focused around "experience" and includes chapters from @scottpalmerx, @davidshearing, @kongshaug, @LucyCarterlight and @yaronshy #CPLbook

...attendant to its material operation in creative contexts. The chapter represents a scoping of the landscape of contemporary performance lighting and focuses on areas including light in research and practice, light and the environment, and the (dramaturgical) power of light.

#CPLbook The introduction, Thinking Light, co-written by the editors, introduces the three critical analytical frameworks through which the volume is organised: experience, creativity and meaning. Each of these frameworks offers a mode for the further understanding of light...

In the foreword, @mumf40 generously acknowledges the volume as ‘defining a new art form’. He introduces the notion of the ‘black canvas’ of the lighting designer and ‘introducing light to this darkened space’ as ‘an act of discovery, illustration and narrative.’ #CPLbook

The volume was edited by @kath_graham, @scottpalmerx and @kellizezulka. Over the next few days, we'll be tweeting about our authors and their chapters, giving you a sneak peek into the book & the amazing academics & practitioners who contributed, using #CPLbook.

Published Today!!! Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning ⁦@kath_graham⁩ ⁦@kellizezulka⁩ (There’s a special offer online ⁦@MethuenDrama⁩ £17.49!)

CALL FOR PAPERS! On Light - guest edited by Katherine Graham (@kath_graham), Scott Palmer (@scottpalmerx) and Kelli Zezulka (@kellizezulka). Abstract/proposal deadline: 9 Jan 2023. Full call: https://t.co/cY3SfSlK9K. #lightingdesign #scenography

Adolphe François Appia, the most influential contributor to the art of theatre lighting was born in Geneva on this day in 1862

1 hour to go! ‘Everything the Light Touches: Lighting Time, Space, and Action in the work of Theatre Re’ by @TheatreRe associate artist @kath_graham Book your free place here: https://t.co/mon0Fjm9SV #TheatreRe #LightingDesign #Light #VisualTheatre #KatherineGraham #TheatreRe