LD Susan Hamburger, who specializes in lighting for dance, does visual research to find images — photos, paintings, scraps of cloth — anything that provides a sense of the landscape and mood she will work to create for the piece. “When you talk about light, people have a harder time trying to understand what you’re saying,” she said. “So I show them pictures, and say, ‘This is what’s speaking to me — the color quality, the dappled-ness, the differences in the palette. Does it resonate for you as well?’ That helps to narrow our conversation down.”
—From “Lighting for Dance” by Randi Minetor, PLSN, Nov. 2019, page 88
