A judging panel of entertainment professionals shortlisted Brandon Stirling Baker's design for Ode for the Dance Award in the Theatre category in Live Design's 2020 Design Achievement Awards. Vote for the most outstanding projects now!
The music score of Ode, a dance tribute to victims of gun violence, is organized into three “stanzas” or three chapters, which Brandon Stirling Baker echoed with three distinct chapters of light that represent the world of the living, the world of those no longer with us, and a dream-like quality that is somewhere in-between. The lighting workhorse was the Martin Mac Viper Performance fixture (from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater rep plot), lighting directly through the flower ceiling and special-added ETC Source Four LUSTR2 profiles on 6' Rover booms that uplight the painted scenery from offstage in the second and third wing. To effectively balance the clarity of color across the vibrant, high-painted flowers, bare-chested skin tones of the male cast, and full-body dresses of the female cast, Baker created a "white light" using Lee 710 and Lee 712, in combination with the LUSTR2, to carefully shift the saturation in a way that connects the constellation of flowers above and the dancers below.
“I love the way the body is rendered here, reverent, sculptural, and how he contains and separates the ornate floral background and the ritual performance space.” — Nancy Wozny, Editor in Chief at Arts and Culture Texas and a Design Achievement Awards judge on the Theatre panel
- Production Company: 4Wall
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