When Tom Skelton wrote his articles for Dance Magazine in the 1950s he set out to create a handbook that a dancer could use to produce a concert. In his early articles he offered advice on how to find a technician that could help a choreographer mount a concert. His suggestion was that the choreographer needed to learn enough about lighting to be able to guide the technician who perhaps knew stage lighting but nothing about dance. Much of this book, while written for both the choreographer and the aspiring dance lighting designer, has assumed a fairly basic knowledge of lighting. I have not, for example, gone into discussions of electrical load or the safe way to hang a lighting instrument. ...
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