Eurythmy Lighting Survey
I would be very grateful if you would
complete the survey.
Copy and paste the text
below into word, then email it back to me.
I am trying to find out how
eurythmists around the world are lighting, and staging their performances. Are
there new ideas or new equipment we should be looking at and testing?
But first let find out how you are lighting and staging your performances
now.
Don’t be
shy, have a go at answering as much as you can
or better still get you technical
team to fill it in! hand it back to at Any time during the conference or post or
email it to me at the address below. If you want it on a CD please as me for
one.
Imagine
your are going to put a performance on next week what does your stage look like.
Is it a proscenium arch, thrust
open plan?
Do
the audience look down on the stage or look up.
Is
the auditorium flat or raked.
Does
your stage have a permanent eurythmy lighting rig,
or do you have to rig and focus lights every time.
Do
you use a cyclorama as a background ?
Is this background ever changed
during the performance.
What
surface is the floor?, wood,
what colour? ,
is it varnished?
Is it a carpet?
What colour
Or professional dance floor?
What
surface and colour do you find works best?
Indicate the rough size of the stage
width, depth
visible height ( what the
audience see)
STAGE LIGHTING
Do you use a 4 colour ( or more )
lighting wash rig what colours are you using?
If you know the lee filter or Rosco colour code and names that’s even better. I.e. Lee Filter “Just blue” 079
Is
the lighting rig a balanced rig ie. Are all
your lights the same power and number for each colour?
or do you run more blue lights than
yellow?
i.e. I always run 4 times as many
lights in blue than yellow, and make them more
powerful too, each blue light is usually 1000w or more and the yellows are 500w
Have
you tried structuring the rig?i.e. so for instance the dark blues outside of rig
slightly paler blues towards the centre. Or yellows radiating out form the
centre.
Do
you ever use gobos patterns or special effects?
FOOT LIGHTS
Do you use foot lights?
If so are they mounted right across
the front of the stage,
Or at foots lights positions at the
front sides and focused across?
LIGHTING
CONTROL DESK
Do you have a manual?
or
memory lighting desk?
What is it brand name and model name?
How many channels?
Is
it easy to operate?
If
you do touring do you take it with you?
Number
of dimmers?
rigging
height, = height of lighting bars or curtains.
Lighting
Positions,
are they front of house(above the audience )
Does you set up look like this or
similar? Draw on it your lighting
positions.
How many Lighting bars on stage?
Is
there a dedicated cyclorama lighting or background lighting position?
Do
you have
Back lighting?
Side
lighting high?
Side
lighting low ?
WHAT TYPE OF LIGHTS DO YOU USE. How many?
FLOODS
FRESNELS
PRISM CONVEX
PARCANS
PROFILE SPOTS
PRISM CONVEX
OTHER MORE ADVANCED LIGHTING UNITS
Do you use colour scrollers for even
more colour range possibilities
Do you use intelligent lighting units
( moving lights )
Do you use 3 colour dicroic light
units
Do you use low voltage bright LED 3
colour mixing lighting units?
Do you use lighting design software
for programming or visualizing the lighting?
Do you ever use smoke or haze?
The lighting team
is there one ?
Do you use the same lighter for each
performance?
Does your lighting person help with
the design ideas for the piece ?
Do you always follow (stick) with
Steiner lightings, colours suggestions?
Does your lighter attend rehearsal?
Does the lighter help develop the
lighting design in rehearsal process.
Stage management
Do you
have a stage manager who will call cues for the lighter?
Does the lighter have to take their
his/her own cues?
How many times will they rehearse the
lighting prior to a performance?
On tour
What size venue do you normally
use?
Do you take the lights with you
?
or hire them?
Or use what happens to be
there?
How much time do you allow for
set up and pre-show lighting rehearsals.?
Do
you tour with your own lighter or just use the in house technicians?
LETS SEE AND SHARE
INFORMATION
NOW SEND ME VIDEO CLIPS AND YOUR
PHOTOS TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW.
In what way would you like to try
something new?
If you are interested in
attending a eurythmy lighting conference either at the Geotheanum here or in
England, US or else where in Europe please let me know. Contact details below.
Or if in the meantime you have
questions or want advice about setting up a stage lighting then please email or
call at any time. Or take a look at
my website at the address below.
Thank you for your help in
completing this survey.
John Watson March
07
Creative Lighting Design
9 Market Place, Heanor,
Derbyshire, DE75 7AA
, England
Tel 01773 712130
mobile 7966 491543
email john@light-design-ed.demon.co.uk
website
www.light-design-ed.demon.co.uk
