​When the Finely Tuned Spotlight Falls on the Lighting Designer

"Lighting designers live in the dark, shining light on others. Jennifer Tipton, who works in dance and theater, has received more attention than most in her profession. At the top of it for the last 50 years or so, she has earned Tony Awards, Bessie awards, an Obie for lifetime achievement and a MacArthur fellowship, among other accolades and prizes. Still, she’s spent her career being mostly invisible, intentionally without an identifiable style, always in service to the vision of choreographers, playwrights and directors — often famous ones, like Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Robert Wilson. ...”

2015 March: Jennifer Tipton

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