This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers and artists. Showcasing recent examples of work ¿ with case studies of lighting practices in Britain, Europe, the US and China ¿ ¿¿combined with theoretical and analytical approaches to practice, this will enrich your understanding of the role and potential of light in performance and related creative practices. This volume explores three core themes and provides a framework for thinking through the role of light in performance:1. Experience ¿ considers both the audience''s experience of light and the ways in which light influences the experience of performers2. Creativity ¿ examines both the creative, performative capacities of light in performance, as well as the creative practices of lighting designers3. Meaning ¿ offers an expanded view of performance aesthetics by examining the capacity of light to influence and generate mea