Dead Man Brake Gallery

Sabryna Te'o in Dead Man BrakeSabryna Te’o

“The lighting by Toby Knyvett –  extremely evocative of the mood of the piece,  adding to the intensity of the emotions being shown and felt” – Stage Whispers

Directed by Anne-Louise Rentell

Costumes Designed by Imogen Ross

Sound Designed by Daryl Wallis

With Alicia Battestini, Nicholas Brown, Gerard Carroll, Phillip Hinton, Drayton Morley, Katrina Retallick and Sabryna Te’o

Produced by Merrigong Theatre Company

Lighting Designed by Toby K

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Inspiring Light: American Landscapes Pt 1

Arkansas freeway Memphis to Little Rock Arkansas

 

I spent 3 months in America this year with Monkey Baas Hitlers DaughterWe toured theatres in the mid-west, south and south east. Plus we got to spend 10 days in Alaska.

The country in America is amazing. If you drive just a few hours down the road the landscape can shift dramatically. I constantly found the light inspiring as it played across all these different spaces. Much to the chargrin of my co-driver in the truck I insisted on taking a whole lot of photographs.

I’ve divided this series into four parts. 

Continue reading for the rest of part 1.

Part 2 is here.

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Australian Dance Awards 2013

Australian Dance Awards 2013

Australian Dance Awards 2013

Featuring extracts from performances by:
QL2 Dance Company
Ghenoa Gela
Wayne and Katie Scott Kermond
Force Majeure
West Australian Ballet
Phly Crew
Dalisa Pigram
Sydney Dance Company

Artistic Director Ruth Osborne
Ausdance ACT Manager Neil Roach
Production Manager Cameron Walter
Video Content Bearcage Productions
Lighting Design Toby K

Prodcued by Ausdance ACT

The River Eats 2013 Video

The River Eats 2013, presented by Performance Space 

“A standout of Melbourne’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The River Eats is a visually stunning fable of transformation and desire.”
Cult Magazine – July 2013

“An audio visual assault that could rival Aphex Twin… a beautiful counterpoint to Shoulder’s live action elements”
Pages Digital – Erin Moy – July 8th 2013

Devised, Performed, Costume & Set Design: Justin Shoulder
Video and 
Lighting Design: Toby Knyvett
Video and SFX: Rebecca Stegh
Composer and Sound Design: Nick Wales
Creative Producer and Dramaturg: Jeff Stein

The River Eats has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the City of Melbourne through Arts House, Next Wave Festival, and Performance Space.

For more images see here

Hit The Floor Together Gallery

Hit The Floor Together 2013. Lighting Design by Toby K.Hit The Floor Together 

Presented by QL2 Dance at the Canberra Playhouse Jul-Aug 2013

Artistic Director: Ruth Osborne
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Adelina Larsson
Choreographers:
Dean Cross
Daniel Riley McKinley
Deon Hastie
Composer: Adam Ventoura
Additional composition, live music: Reuben Ingall
Dramaturg: Paschal Daanto Berry
Costume Design: Christiane Nowak
Set Design: Suse Ilschner
Film by Bearcage

Lighting Design by Toby K

See the extended for the full gallery

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The River Eats

 

“A standout of Melbourne’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The River Eats is a visually stunning fable of transformation and desire.”
Cult Magazine – July 2013

“An audio visual assault that could rival Aphex Twin… a beautiful counterpoint to Shoulder’s live action elements”
Pages Digital – Erin Moy – July 8th 2013

Devised, Performed, Costume & Set Design: Justin Shoulder
Video and 
Lighting Design: Toby Knyvett
Video and SFX: Rebecca Stegh
Composer and Sound Design: Nick Wales
Creative Producer and Dramaturg: Jeff Stein

The River Eats has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, the City of Melbourne through Arts House, Next Wave Festival, and Performance Space.

Images by Heidruhn Lohr and Toby Knyvett. 

Technology used includes conventional lighting, infrared tracking and interactive generative visuals programmed in vvvv.

For a video of the performance see here.

See the extended for the full gallery.

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The River Eats 2013 Trailer

From 3 – 13 July at Carriageworks. Presented by Performance Space.

Full info and Buy Tickets Here.

Devised, Performed, Costume & Set Design: Justin Shoulder
Video and 
Lighting Design: Toby Knyvett
Video and SFX: Rebecca Stegh
Composer and Sound Design: Nick Wales
Creative Producer and Dramaturg: Jeff Stein

VVVV Contribution: TextFlock (Spreads)

* Note – I’ve setup a new blog for articles and contributions like this, click here*

I contributed a new module for vvvv, TextFlock. 

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It’s a very basic particle system that morphs from one text string to another.

Download it here from the vvvv site.

vvvv is free for non-commercial use. If you want to to learn coding to create digital artwork vvvv is a great place to start. 

www.vvvv.org

Continue reading to see a preview of what it looks like. It’s a 6mb Animated GIF so on slow connections this might not be worthwhile.  

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