Lighting Design
Concept Description for Thirteen
The piece Thirteen is an amazing choreography that Suzanna has created. After looking at each movement and all the meaning to everything, I have been analyzing what the lighting colors should be and how they will flow through the dancing. I also spoke to two people that have helped me. The choreographer, Suzanna Huerta and one of the costume designers Cydnee Jordan. They have helped me what to use when the innocent girls and evil girls come and go, so I can use the right colors. After speaking to them I decided that I want only dark and light colors. I want the audience to be kind of tricked by the lighting color. I also want them to start figuring out who the bad girls and the good girls are. I prefer the stage starting off as a light, warm color then as the music gradually gets heavier and with more beat I would like the colors to be more bold and dramatic. This will keep the audience focused on what is happening and will feel comfortable.
As this piece starts I want the scrim in the back and a light teal color shadowing and slowly fading in, with all the sidelights washing every zone. This is when the girl stands in the middle and all the bad and good girls walk across. This shows a good scene of a casualness, and calm but at the same time will show the mean girls. Their costumes will also let audiences understand the concept of what is what. After all the dancers walked and goes to their positions, the good girls will start dancing, surrounding the innocent girl and protecting her. It will stay like this until the bad girls start coming, and puts on the dress for haydee and changes her bad. I would like a more bolder color to come in. Like the color red. This will show the evil heart of the bad girl dancers. Then at end when haydee screams on center stage, wiping her face, I want a black out right after.
Suzanna’s Piece Notes
1. 100% blue & 41% green, fades for the first 16 counts that they walk.
2. The color stay the same and the side lights go 33% and 50%
3. When savannah goes in the middle w/ the ribbon the floor mount fades.
4. The light goes down when chip & bob comes in
5. Red goes when the bad girls surround haydee, and start to put on the dress and pushes the innocent girls out.
6. When the red lights go on, the side light slowly faints.
7. After haydees scream, black out (5 or 6 seconds)
Lighting Collaboration
I had a couple meetings with my choreographer, we talked about the lighting and the costumes. We were trying to collaborate and figured out how all the pieces will be put together and what the final piece would look like. I also talked with the costume designer once on how and what color the costume would be when we first started. Talking to her gave me an amazing idea of what color I should start with. We all had different ideas and put everything together, although this piece is a very short choreography, with all the work that I, as the lighting designer, Cydnee as the costume designer, and Suzanna as the choreographer made the piece look even more astonishing.
Final Reflection
I personally think that after finishing the costumes and the final lighting, the piece turned out pretty well. The costumes went well with the blue-ish light. (100% blue, 50% green) It was originally supposed to be 100% green and 50% blue, but many of the pieces are blue and green. The lighting rehearsal went by quick and easy; since I came prepared. We tried many different things and chose the best for that part of the dance. The dancers cooperated very well and it wasn’t difficult to ask them to go to a certain part. The lighting rehearsal went by in one try. The overall piece turned out somewhat of how I really wanted it. I guess my expectations were too high for something that isn’t that simple on a light board and for one person to do all at one time. The final view of Avatar is very calm and suttle. Hopefully the people who watch the concert will be happy with the way Avatar uses the lights and the costumes. I expect this piece to be fantastic at the dance concert!
The piece Thirteen is an amazing choreography that Suzanna has created. After looking at each movement and all the meaning to everything, I have been analyzing what the lighting colors should be and how they will flow through the dancing. I also spoke to two people that have helped me. The choreographer, Suzanna Huerta and one of the costume designers Cydnee Jordan. They have helped me what to use when the innocent girls and evil girls come and go, so I can use the right colors. After speaking to them I decided that I want only dark and light colors. I want the audience to be kind of tricked by the lighting color. I also want them to start figuring out who the bad girls and the good girls are. I prefer the stage starting off as a light, warm color then as the music gradually gets heavier and with more beat I would like the colors to be more bold and dramatic. This will keep the audience focused on what is happening and will feel comfortable.
As this piece starts I want the scrim in the back and a light teal color shadowing and slowly fading in, with all the sidelights washing every zone. This is when the girl stands in the middle and all the bad and good girls walk across. This shows a good scene of a casualness, and calm but at the same time will show the mean girls. Their costumes will also let audiences understand the concept of what is what. After all the dancers walked and goes to their positions, the good girls will start dancing, surrounding the innocent girl and protecting her. It will stay like this until the bad girls start coming, and puts on the dress for haydee and changes her bad. I would like a more bolder color to come in. Like the color red. This will show the evil heart of the bad girl dancers. Then at end when haydee screams on center stage, wiping her face, I want a black out right after.
Suzanna’s Piece Notes
1. 100% blue & 41% green, fades for the first 16 counts that they walk.
2. The color stay the same and the side lights go 33% and 50%
3. When savannah goes in the middle w/ the ribbon the floor mount fades.
4. The light goes down when chip & bob comes in
5. Red goes when the bad girls surround haydee, and start to put on the dress and pushes the innocent girls out.
6. When the red lights go on, the side light slowly faints.
7. After haydees scream, black out (5 or 6 seconds)
Lighting Collaboration
I had a couple meetings with my choreographer, we talked about the lighting and the costumes. We were trying to collaborate and figured out how all the pieces will be put together and what the final piece would look like. I also talked with the costume designer once on how and what color the costume would be when we first started. Talking to her gave me an amazing idea of what color I should start with. We all had different ideas and put everything together, although this piece is a very short choreography, with all the work that I, as the lighting designer, Cydnee as the costume designer, and Suzanna as the choreographer made the piece look even more astonishing.
Final Reflection
I personally think that after finishing the costumes and the final lighting, the piece turned out pretty well. The costumes went well with the blue-ish light. (100% blue, 50% green) It was originally supposed to be 100% green and 50% blue, but many of the pieces are blue and green. The lighting rehearsal went by quick and easy; since I came prepared. We tried many different things and chose the best for that part of the dance. The dancers cooperated very well and it wasn’t difficult to ask them to go to a certain part. The lighting rehearsal went by in one try. The overall piece turned out somewhat of how I really wanted it. I guess my expectations were too high for something that isn’t that simple on a light board and for one person to do all at one time. The final view of Avatar is very calm and suttle. Hopefully the people who watch the concert will be happy with the way Avatar uses the lights and the costumes. I expect this piece to be fantastic at the dance concert!
Assistant Choreographer
Choreographer: Izella Berman
Assistant Choreographer: Irene Chin
Lighting Designer: Rebecca
Costume Designer: Maria Toress, Briana Perez
Dancers: Harmony Binney, Maureen Restor, Savannah Dunaway, Rianna Persichillo, Megan Mamaril, Taylor Maturino, Carla Huezo, Rebecca Mendez, Veronica Chung, Gabriela Medina, Suzanna Huerta, Chelsey Brody
Intent:
After creating and watching this piece I want my audience to question the decisions they make in life and think about its’ effect, whether it be positive or negative. People are so quick to label the major social issue of drugs as bad and are blind to the positive aspect it has. Besides experimenting and learning from your experiences, without the need to abuse such power. I want them to comprehend that the drugs don’t necessarily represent something entirely dark and negative, although it is easily led down that path. I’m hoping that my viewers grasp the idea that good energy out ways bad energy because the feeling of the happiness is much more powerful then sadness or anger.
Goal:
My main goal is to contrast hard and soft movement, while blending my advanced and beginning dancers. Since I put different leveled dancers I want to see how well they can work together and work with each distinguished movement that they have. My second goal is that I also want my choreography to portray the different moods and elements of my story. With this I want to accomplish the branched out goal of improving the quality of my dancers’ music in the long run.
Process:
To let this piece come together and start off with a strong start I had to begin with auditions. Before we began I wanted about 9-10 dancers, with 1 soloist, 2 or 3 bad people. One of the bad person will represent a bad foreshadow. Then with the rest of the dancers I want them to be either the good or the pill people. In auditions there were different leveled dancers that tried out. Our first step was to teach all the dancers choreography. I taught a soloist phrase, a good phrase, and a bad phrase. With the picture I created in my head I focused on finding duets that are the drug that has a conflict between two pitfalls.
After we completed the auditions, we went on to our 3 hour rehearsal. In our rehearsal we did different techniques. I started off with talking to my dancers and creating the main story of my piece. I let them focus on the different movements and how the emotion of the piece should be set. Secondly, my assistant choreographer and I taught all the phrases that we had constantly created, with the time we had. There were 11 different phrases that we taught to the dancers, each phrase was named so we wouldn’t forget. The names were 1, Sexy, Toxic, Bounce, Frankenstein, Gator, H2O, Thrust, Shrooms, Feel good 1, and Feel good 2. Irene and I created these names by how the technique and movement were when the dancers performed these phrases. All the phrases that we taught to my dancers were different lengths but no matter how long or short they were, everyone was able to memorize everything. Although, we had to go over the same phrase more than a couple times so the phrase can become muscle memory for them. For the rest of the rehearsal we went over the phrases with counts.
Starting from November 2, 2011 we had our first weekly rehearsal, my rehearsals were every Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:00 PM. At my first rehearsal we started off with reviewing all the phrases we had and I started to visualize which dancer would be best at what movement. Harmony Binney was my soloist, so knowing that she was I visualized Maureen Restor as the sexy pill, Savannah Dunaway and Rianna Persichillo as the bad people, Chelsey Brody as the bad foreshadow, and the rest of the dancers as a pill. The first rehearsal was all the planning and explaining the main process to my dancers.
The second rehearsal was on November 9, 2011. During this rehearsal my assistant choreographer and I created more phrases together then went over my goal and intent for this piece. I then gave each dancer a specific phrase to work on so I can slowly put them on stage one by one. With the plan that I had written down I made everything follow through. From the rehearsal point and on Irene worked with the dancers that weren’t put on stage and I worked with the first few dancers on stage and gave them an exact spot to go on too and do their phrases there. While I was completing this my assistant also manipulated phrases with the dancers so we can have more phrases. My goal on the second day was too stage Harmony, Maureen, Rianna, and Savannah.
Every Wednesdays from November 16 to December 14 was the same process but we went farther into our choreography every time we worked on it. My main concept that I wanted to work on is to succeed the main story. I worked my way to complete my choreography by first having an intro to drugs then a come down by Rianna and Savannah. Then I wanted Harmony to take drugs by letting two girls enter at the same as the bad people leave, euphoria. This process would be repeated but more and more drugs would come in. Every rehearsal that I got I would try to accomplish my goal of a scene of fighting between the good and the bad, and the bad tries to take down Harmony but she takes more pills 1 after another with a combo of hard and soft movement. It was difficult to work with many people and to incorporate hard and soft movement together but I everyone helped out and my piece was almost finished. Each day we worked harder and harder but one very hard thing for me was to put everyone on stage. In order for me to add people on stage we had to work step by step instead of putting them on stage because my storyline was in chronological order. Besides the complications for that everything was getting finished and all we had to do was clean.
Assistant Choreographer: Irene Chin
Lighting Designer: Rebecca
Costume Designer: Maria Toress, Briana Perez
Dancers: Harmony Binney, Maureen Restor, Savannah Dunaway, Rianna Persichillo, Megan Mamaril, Taylor Maturino, Carla Huezo, Rebecca Mendez, Veronica Chung, Gabriela Medina, Suzanna Huerta, Chelsey Brody
Intent:
After creating and watching this piece I want my audience to question the decisions they make in life and think about its’ effect, whether it be positive or negative. People are so quick to label the major social issue of drugs as bad and are blind to the positive aspect it has. Besides experimenting and learning from your experiences, without the need to abuse such power. I want them to comprehend that the drugs don’t necessarily represent something entirely dark and negative, although it is easily led down that path. I’m hoping that my viewers grasp the idea that good energy out ways bad energy because the feeling of the happiness is much more powerful then sadness or anger.
Goal:
My main goal is to contrast hard and soft movement, while blending my advanced and beginning dancers. Since I put different leveled dancers I want to see how well they can work together and work with each distinguished movement that they have. My second goal is that I also want my choreography to portray the different moods and elements of my story. With this I want to accomplish the branched out goal of improving the quality of my dancers’ music in the long run.
Process:
To let this piece come together and start off with a strong start I had to begin with auditions. Before we began I wanted about 9-10 dancers, with 1 soloist, 2 or 3 bad people. One of the bad person will represent a bad foreshadow. Then with the rest of the dancers I want them to be either the good or the pill people. In auditions there were different leveled dancers that tried out. Our first step was to teach all the dancers choreography. I taught a soloist phrase, a good phrase, and a bad phrase. With the picture I created in my head I focused on finding duets that are the drug that has a conflict between two pitfalls.
After we completed the auditions, we went on to our 3 hour rehearsal. In our rehearsal we did different techniques. I started off with talking to my dancers and creating the main story of my piece. I let them focus on the different movements and how the emotion of the piece should be set. Secondly, my assistant choreographer and I taught all the phrases that we had constantly created, with the time we had. There were 11 different phrases that we taught to the dancers, each phrase was named so we wouldn’t forget. The names were 1, Sexy, Toxic, Bounce, Frankenstein, Gator, H2O, Thrust, Shrooms, Feel good 1, and Feel good 2. Irene and I created these names by how the technique and movement were when the dancers performed these phrases. All the phrases that we taught to my dancers were different lengths but no matter how long or short they were, everyone was able to memorize everything. Although, we had to go over the same phrase more than a couple times so the phrase can become muscle memory for them. For the rest of the rehearsal we went over the phrases with counts.
Starting from November 2, 2011 we had our first weekly rehearsal, my rehearsals were every Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:00 PM. At my first rehearsal we started off with reviewing all the phrases we had and I started to visualize which dancer would be best at what movement. Harmony Binney was my soloist, so knowing that she was I visualized Maureen Restor as the sexy pill, Savannah Dunaway and Rianna Persichillo as the bad people, Chelsey Brody as the bad foreshadow, and the rest of the dancers as a pill. The first rehearsal was all the planning and explaining the main process to my dancers.
The second rehearsal was on November 9, 2011. During this rehearsal my assistant choreographer and I created more phrases together then went over my goal and intent for this piece. I then gave each dancer a specific phrase to work on so I can slowly put them on stage one by one. With the plan that I had written down I made everything follow through. From the rehearsal point and on Irene worked with the dancers that weren’t put on stage and I worked with the first few dancers on stage and gave them an exact spot to go on too and do their phrases there. While I was completing this my assistant also manipulated phrases with the dancers so we can have more phrases. My goal on the second day was too stage Harmony, Maureen, Rianna, and Savannah.
Every Wednesdays from November 16 to December 14 was the same process but we went farther into our choreography every time we worked on it. My main concept that I wanted to work on is to succeed the main story. I worked my way to complete my choreography by first having an intro to drugs then a come down by Rianna and Savannah. Then I wanted Harmony to take drugs by letting two girls enter at the same as the bad people leave, euphoria. This process would be repeated but more and more drugs would come in. Every rehearsal that I got I would try to accomplish my goal of a scene of fighting between the good and the bad, and the bad tries to take down Harmony but she takes more pills 1 after another with a combo of hard and soft movement. It was difficult to work with many people and to incorporate hard and soft movement together but I everyone helped out and my piece was almost finished. Each day we worked harder and harder but one very hard thing for me was to put everyone on stage. In order for me to add people on stage we had to work step by step instead of putting them on stage because my storyline was in chronological order. Besides the complications for that everything was getting finished and all we had to do was clean.