A white walled stage fills with light and shadow,
performers manipulate objects and lamps to perform the ‘dance’ of Buttonville,
much like an animated story-book. The lights are always used as objects that
are interacted with to create the image.
Evolved from recent Winning Productions research projects,
this design was born out a story telling style using objects, images and
actors. Video projections are integrated into the design using specially
designed hardware triggers to physically interact with the image.
Below is a mood board of internet collected images, also a selection of recent design research projects by Stephen, relating in some way to Buttonville.
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This picture is from a research into multiple shadows using coloured light, it is a study towards an outdoor project using a tennis court and found objects with active participants playing tennis. The projection wall will eventually be lit by 8 x 1000W theatre lights using red, green and blue combinations to project a variety of colour and compositions.
These are selection of shadow works designed for gallery installations.
From the Norwegan art collective Verdensteatret - their video/ projection/ shadow work And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing, is a coproduction with Theater der Welt, Black Box Theater, BIT Teatergarasjen and Avant Art Festival.
See more of this production by clicking on the image, for a link to their website.
From French theatre company Theatre de la Jacquerie production of La Fin d'une Liason. Shadow design is by Jean-Pierre Lescot, using a complex arrangement of four OHP projectors to create the images. I was fortunate to sit in on the rehearsals for this production in Paris in 2010.
And the Luminoceros itself? Some inspiration -
