It’s easy to understand why lighting is essential to dance performance. Dancing in the dark is hard to see. But when Brandon Stirling Baker says he wants his lighting design to be essential, he means ...

How did you discover lighting? I did amateur dramatics and dance lessons as a kid, and when I did drama at university, I picked dance as my second subject. But when I was choreographing, all my ideas ...

Lollapalooza is about more than just music. The four-day festival is also a general cultural affair — love it or hate it — touching on everything from food to fashion to philanthropy. One of the ...

Kinetic Light dance company works at the intersection of disability and dance. Wheelchairs, ramps and lifts take dancers to new heights as they raise the bar for what it means to represent disability ...

About five years ago, 19th-century lesbian icon Loïe Fuller suddenly went viral — catalyzing (yet another) minor scandal for none other than Taylor Swift. Paying onstage homage to “the pioneer in ...

What’s in a light — a spark, a shot, a shiver? What’s in a touch —a pulse, a pain, a passion? In Anna Sperber’s “Ruptured Horizon,” four performers — Michael Ingle, Alice MacDonald, Omagbitse Omagbemi ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Brandon Stirling Baker talks about his essential but rarely discussed art, pointing out mistakes and misconceptions, and the joys of collaboration. The lighting designer Brandon ...