Tuesday
Mar092010
Professional Projections
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:57AM
By Col
Here's a timely New York Times article very worth checking out. It's all about the rising significance projection design has in contemporary theatre production. We're in the wake of two show, Eric Rose's and David van Belle's Highest Step @ ATP's playRites and Theatre Calgary's Beyond Eden, that truly took projections to the next step.
These shows go beyond using projections simply as title cards or scenic backdrops and have instead embraced projections at the same level as set, light, or sound design.
David van Belle in Ghost River/ATP's production of The Highest Step in the World
Lets hope that these productions help spur a virtuous cycle and inspire more and more great projection design, prompting company's to invest in the technological infrastructure needed for great projections, enabling even better projection design, and so on and so forth...
Here's a timely New York Times article very worth checking out. It's all about the rising significance projection design has in contemporary theatre production. We're in the wake of two show, Eric Rose's and David van Belle's Highest Step @ ATP's playRites and Theatre Calgary's Beyond Eden, that truly took projections to the next step.
These shows go beyond using projections simply as title cards or scenic backdrops and have instead embraced projections at the same level as set, light, or sound design.
David van Belle in Ghost River/ATP's production of The Highest Step in the WorldLets hope that these productions help spur a virtuous cycle and inspire more and more great projection design, prompting company's to invest in the technological infrastructure needed for great projections, enabling even better projection design, and so on and so forth...
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