PERFORMANCE LIGHTING DESIGN
AT
ASHOKA UNIVERSITY
The course aimed to introduce lighting as a tool in the process of theatre making and storytelling. It focused on what light is, what it can do, how it is perceived in today’s world, and explored its innate ability and responsibility to change or support the meaning of a narrative, both for the audience and the performer. We learned how to interact with different lighting sources and understand their characteristics to create meaningful visual compositions. Moreover, the course aimed to elucidate how lighting enables you to guide the eye of the audience to what and how things need to be seen and perceived. The goal was to approach the process of designing lights for any performance across genres by understanding how to interpret text, action, and narrative into design choices and create suitable visual imagery.
