(QUICK NOTE: I thought I hit publish but turns out I hit preview without saving and it deleted everything and I just now noticed?? Sorry!!)




This video features a guy wearing some really cool LED gloves. There appear to be colored LED lights in the fingertips of the gloves, and they appear to be quite bright. The man wearing the gloves also seems to have incredibly nimble fingers, as they move with such a fluid and mystical manner. The light from the gloves seems to move and create shapes with how fast the movements of the man's fingers. The streaks and fuzziness of the light highlight the movements perfectly.




In this video, video projection is used to accentuate the movements of the dancers. Swirls, shapes, waves, twinkles, and more are projected behind the two on stage, and are the only thing breaking up the monotony of the blue wash on stage. It looks like the dancers themselves are drawing and creating the shapes around them, and it shows just how fluidly they move.

(Start at 1:44) This performance is interesting because the lighting isn't used as a background to highlight the person, rather, the person is covered head to toe in the light source. I think the contrast between the red and blue help the audience to distinguish some of the movements of the two individual dancers and their meanings.





I think these performances are different from the first one because a lot of these do not highlight the entire body, but will highlight the main focus and movement of what the performers want the audience to see. At times, the illuminated parts of them do not even look like people, however, almost all of these performances are put on by illuminating parts of the people in the video.

Dancing with Moving lights

This first one is one of the segments from Britain's Got Talent. They reminded me of the handheld lights in Lady Gaga's Halftime Show. These actually appear controlled by pre-programmed lighting in the suits rather than by location tracking. The fact that they turn off and on in strategic ways make it look like there are only three characters at a time that move in unreal ways and "teleport" when lights turn on and off, creating really impressive and unique effects.

The interesting lighting and moving fixtures of this dance begins at 2:40 of the video, but the point where I noticed moving lights really being intentionally utilized is after 3:25 where the lights follow the moving circle, enhancing the feeling that the group is surrounding and essentially crowding the individual in the middle. This idea is that the lights move around to create chaos and confusion for the dancer in white, but then focus in the center to create the feeling of suppression. After a while, there is a contrast with spotlights following a single dancer, making that individual seem as if they are alone and have freedom to do as they will.

Movement in Lighting

This video shows the actor "controlling" the light, and both stopping it and spinning it around. It's interesting seeing how in sync the actor is with the lights; that means that there had to be lots of choreography and practice done in order to match up the actor's movements and light movements. It helps make the actor seem more powerful as well.

In this video, the dancers use light on their gloves to enhance their dance movements. It appears that the dancers are being lit mostly (or almost entirely) by the light gloves, so it really makes you focus on how they are moving. I also really like how they change the colors they are using to match the music and change the mood.

Movement in/with Lighting

I always enjoying seeing two forms of art come together, so I was really excited to see how dancing and lighting would work together. The lighting effects are so in sync with the dancers, it's almost as if the dancers are the ones controlling them. And the colors creatic a sort of mythical/angelic scenery

In this video, the lights move based on a person's movement. While watching it, I looked at how quickly the bulbs would change color and direction as soon as a person moved. They created a new scenery in the blink of an eye!

Movement in Lighting

In this video, I think the lighting and effects certainly make the movements more enhanced and more stylish. I think the effects and lighting also help make the dancers look more eloquent and smooth. The blue and white give a spiritual feeling to the piece.

In this video, there were shadows that looked like they were moving because of the changes in lighting and where the lights were directed. There was also the use of covering the lights to have the light shine at different angles. I think this is really cool how lights can change the way the audience views objects.