Described as “an inquiry into the climates of movement and light,” Necessary Weather is a fully collaborative work by the choreographer/dancer Dana Reitz and lighting designer Jennifer Tipton. Reitz was as much involved with the lighting as Tipton was with the movement structure. Reitz has developed and produced work since the early 1970s and has been a member of the Bennington College faculty for many years, while Tipton is a much-awarded designer for Broadway, opera, and dance who is a longtime teacher at the Yale School of Drama. The collaborators aimed to dispel preconceived ideas about the interrelationship between movement and light, creating what they called “a journey, in silence, along the edges of dream and real time.”
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