Lighting director Eric Blosse says, "We all agreed that we needed to restart from the beginning, rather than seek to replicate the actual flash itself: we were left with a blank white space focused on the body in a trance."
The style of dance, Butoh, is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, which is well suited to trance-like movements and subtle colour shifts.
Says Blosse, "The ability of the Source Four LEDs to offer a variable white temperature was key to the performance: we could make subtle adjustments to the light levels, highlighting the bodies' movement in the time of the trance. This little-used facility led us to propose a new language of light."
The fixtures for Un Coup de Don were supplied by Les Ateliers Lumière of Bordeaux.
(Jim Evans)
