“I look at pyro as another layer. The smoke allows the shafts of light to be seen, not just the target of the light. And properly coordinated shell explosions are a way to turn the page in a lighting design, to indicate to an audience that the show is about to go to another place, another level, and re-direct their attention…Without coordination and an understanding of what each type of illumination can achieve, you risk having pyro blow the video or the lighting out of the water. In order to get the nuances in, I think pyro has to be looked at as an extension of lighting.”
—Dan Daley, quoting LD David Grill in “The Biz,” PLSN, Oct. 2008
