A performance in Salders' Wells with no performance, mainly Light and Sound design.  The first performance is called "Lightspace" which lasts 30 minutes, although I think it's more like 45min, from start to finish.  There are clusters of tungsten light bulb hanging down in a darkened auditorium.  Audience walk in and can stand freely. The light bulb begins to flicker and slowly starts the show.  We get then get a quite beautiful but slow light bulb dance show for about 10 minutes. The lights then pulled up, and this part is where I think gets interesting. A beam of light shots down, and it makes you feel like it is either a UFO or god.  A straight pan of light scans from right to left and back, as if they are scanning us to see who we are. Fog is in the room, so we have air molecules that looks like cloud when the light is scanning past us.  It is a simple graphic projection,  just straight lines.  After that, there was a moment all the lines in the ceiling drop right on top of our heads. The audience gasps but it's ok, there is another segment of music and the performance ends.  Very exciting experience. I realised that theatre shows can also be done with simple light and sound.  I understand the light,  sometimes simple solution can also work!  That makes me have a good think of my final performance.

 

The second one was wearing a headset and walking up the stairs.  The sound will trigger on your ear as you stay in that room.  It's called "indelible". I finally saw the big high res projections that Dick Straker talks about.  However, I don't really think this was that interesting, We handed in our headphones and arrive in a rehearsal room,  there's a dog bark when I walk it.  And it triggers different sounds if you make a sound, but most people stands around still.  

 

There are still several installation as I follow the bubbles around the building. The other one that I found a bit more interesting is "Hidden" by Lucy Carter.  You walked through the wigs and wardrobe room, the control room and the light store.  An glowing white blob sits on the control room on the chair, looking down the stage.  There seems to be an alien sound in the background,  and the controllers move by itself!  As if the glowing blob is controlling it.  The last one is 7 minutes performances with at least 50 stage and film lights.  The store room has a quite low ceiling, and we have to hunch down a bit walking in the room.  The light is lined up on the whole wall, and we sit on the other side, like a fashion show.  Very since fiction.  I loved it.

 

Overall, it is an interesting show,  there are some that I don't feel as interesting and slow. But I quite enjoyed it.