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Hansjörg Schmidt

Programme Director, MA Light in Performance. Subject Leader, Visual Design for Public Spaces

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Hansjörg Schmidt is the Programme Director of the MA Light in Performance, and Subject Leader for Visual Design in Public Spaces in the Undergraduate School. As a lighting designer, he regularly collaborates with performance makers and other practitioners on creating new landscapes and environments made of light.

At Rose Bruford, Hansjörg runs the MA Light in Performance. Hansjörg is actively engaged in exploring new ways to teach and learn about light in performance, particularly through cross-disciplinary working and knowledge exchange.

Teaching
Research

Teaching Area

Lighting Design

Contextual studies

Inter disciplinary studies

Qualifications

2011     PGCHE                                                                              University of Greenwich

2002     MSc Built Environment: Light and Lighting           UCL (Bartlett School)

1996     BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts                          University of London

Memberships

Fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Academy.)

Professional Practice

As lighting designer – selected works from the last 5 years:

2022                First Touch. Nottingham Playhouse. World premiere.

2021                We Are Not Finished. Fevered Sleep. World premiere
This Is My Room. Clod ensemble. World premiere

2020               Dadderrs. Frauke Requardt/Daniel Oliver. World premiere. Tramway, Glasgow

2019                On The High Road. Queen Elizabeth Hall/clod ensemble. World premiere and UK tour

2018                 Placebo. Clod ensemble. Place Theatre and UK tour. World premiere
Dr Faustus. Tangle / Arcola Theatre.

2016                 Workshop Negative. Tangle / Gate Theatre. World premiere
The Glass Menagerie. Nuffield Theatre Southampton
Men and Girls Dance. Fevered sleep / touring. World premiere

Publications

2022    Traces, in: Contemporary Performance Lighting. Methuen 2022.

2018     Light and Truth, in: Music on Stage, Vol.3 Ed by Jane Schopf. Cambridge Scholars  Publishing 2018.

2017     Wunderkammer, in: Opera and the Media, ed. by Dr. Paul Fryer.McFarland 2017.

Conference Papers

2019 Stilled – A scenography of the Image. Prague Quadrennial (PQ)

2019 Archiving light. Doc Perform. City University of London

2017 Traces, at TaPRA Salford

2016 Traces, at Performing Light Symposium University of Leeds

2016 The Library of Light. V&A Museum and Doc Perform Symposium, City University of London

Research Interests

Environment, Light, Movement, inter disciplinary knowledge exchange.

Additional Information

https://www.hansjorgschmidt.net/

 

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