Photos by Jazley Faith

Dance Visions

The Last Kingdom - DESIGN STATEMENT | CONCEPTUAL MAGIC SHEETS

Inspired by the Moso people of China, this work explores a glimpse of life in a Matriarchal society on the pristine shores at Luku Lake. In the style of magical realism, this beautiful work glides gracefully and effortlessly between dream and reality, with lighting providing key clues to the story. Utilizing a rich color palette inspired by colors found in a sunrise, we journey through the course of a day in this mystical world.
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Lighting Design: Morgan Embry​
Choreography: Tong Wang
Costume Design: Julie Keen-Leavenworth

Divine Demoness - DESIGN STATEMENT | CONCEPTUAL MAGIC SHEETS

Progressing through a ritual of embodying wrathful female deities, this dance work is raw and transfixing. Lighting followed the increasing intensity of this work, ritual fires igniting and engulfing the stage in frenzied kineticism while the statement light source personified the spirits of the summoned wrathful deities.

Lighting Design: Morgan Embry​​
Choreography: Lindsay Gilmour
Sound Design: Andrew Tarr
Costume Design: Lauryn Moles

"hire" knowledge and the anthropocene - 
​DESIGN STATEMENT | CONCEPTUAL MAGIC SHEETS

We are living in a time, defined by nuclear tests and plastic pollution; we’ve entered The Anthropocene. Humankind has determined this geological epoch where ecosystems have been significantly impacted. Our insatiable demand for inorganic materials, technological warfare and patented produce has already led to global mass extinction of species, and yet we have the ability to make more sustainable choices. The US is insulated from the devastation of overconsumption. This work is the result of the pondering of humanity’s so-called “higher” knowledge and consider if we are equating the natural world as substance that is simply for “hire” and can therefore be replaced at will. What would nature say if she could talk, if she could measure us?  What will make the difference? How much louder does the alarm have to ring; and do we all have a seat at the table? Lighting plays with the dissonance between the organic and inorganic, having man-made representations like flourescent tubes existing alongside organic, warm, and textural worlds.

Lighting Design: Morgan Embry​
Choreography: Dr. Ama Wray
Costume Design: Julie Keen-Leavenworth
Props: Pamela Marsden
​Scenic Design: Taryn Lee

Dvorak Serenade - DESIGN STATEMENT​ | CONCEPTUAL MAGIC SHEETS

A re-staging of an original Lubovitch work, the lighting draws from the emotion of tender reminiscing. The dancers journey through warm, soft memories of the past in search of something to inform their present.
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Lighting Design: Morgan Embry
Choreography: Lar Lubovitch
Costume Design: Wendy Winters


Artistic Direction: Molly Lynch, Tong Wang
Performed in the Irvine Barclay Theater.

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