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Exploring light Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title
Exploring light [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication
2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Tipton, Jennifer
  • Reitz, Dana
  • Reitz, Dana
  • Miller, Samuel A.
  • Jones, Austin
  • Wever, Merritt
  • Gay, Jackson
  • Maslik, Aleksandra
  • Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (98 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
This program focuses on the art of lighting design and the career of Jennifer Tipton. In the first segment, Tipton gives a lecture-demonstration with Dana Reitz as a model; Tipton shows the technique of focusing; the various types of lighting that can be used and their visual effects; and a set of lighting cues presented in various rhythms. Reitz performs dance improvisations, including one derived from Circumstantial evidence, a piece created by Tipton and Reitz in 1988. In the first panel discussion, Tipton and Reitz discuss the idea of lighting space vs. lighting bodies; the performer's relation to the lighting; adapting to working in different spaces; the influence of the audience. A scene from The glass menagerie is performed with lighting cues but without scenery, and then with scenery. Between the two performances, Tipton discusses the difference between lighting dance and theater, the relation of lighting to dialogue and sets.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Video.
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Apr. 7, 2008.
Contents
Lighting demonstration / lecture by Tipton with dance by Dana Reitz (37 min.) -- Panel discussion / Tipton and Reitz (19 min.) -- Scene from The glass menagerie (without scenery) / by Tennessee Williams; directed by Jackson Gay; performed by Merritt Wever (Laura) and Austin Jones (Jim); lighting cues by Tipton (15 min.) -- Discussion / Tipton, Jackson Gay, Aleksandra Maslik (7 min.) -- Scene from The glass menagerie (with scenery) / by Tennessee Williams; performed by Merritt Wever (Laura) and Austin Jones (Jim); lighting cues by Tipton; scenery and costumes by Maslik (20 min.)
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-3736
OCLC
231754410
Title
Exploring light [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Imprint
2008.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Performer
Moderator, Samuel Miller. Panelists, Jennifer Tipton, Dana Reitz, Jackson Gay, Aleksandra Maslik.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Apr. 7, 2008.
Local Note
For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].
Added Author
Tipton, Jennifer, interviewee.
Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.
Reitz, Dana, dancer.
Reitz, Dana. Interviewee
Miller, Samuel A. Moderator
Jones, Austin. Actor
Wever, Merritt. Actor
Gay, Jackson. Director
Gay, Jackson. Interviewee
Maslik, Aleksandra. Set designer
Maslik, Aleksandra. Interviewee
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Glass menagerie.
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-3736
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