Comments on: Dance Lighting – Introduction

By: Year in Review – 2009 « Light Cue 23

Year in Review – 2009 « Light Cue 23 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:10:35 +0000

[...] I discussed dance on my blog and in a guest post at On Stage Lighting. [...]

By: Teaching, Influence and Critique « Light Cue 23

Teaching, Influence and Critique « Light Cue 23 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:32:08 +0000

[...] process over at Isaac Butler’s blog. And recently I put together an article on the basic’s of dance lighting for Rob Sayer’s [...]

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:20:19 +0000

Thanks for a great guest post, Lucas. A good read and fits right in with what we are doing here at On Stage Lighting.

In case any readers are wondering, Lucas refers to “Pipe ends” as a high sidelighting position. In the UK, we often refer to Lighting or LX bars / barrels when taking about the steel tubes across stage that we rig from. In the US, these are commonly called Pipes and the Pipe End position is the very offstage ends of the bar with lanterns pointing across stage – or “on and off” in theatre terms.

Pipe ends provide high sidelight with a toplight quality that sculpts across shoulders and horizontal position planes like outstretched arms and legs.