Hansjörg Schmidt
Academic Programme Manager, Programme Director MA Light in Performance
Summary
I’m a lighting designer and educator. In my lighting practice, I regularly collaborate with performance makers and other practitioners on creating new landscapes and environments made of light.
I run the MA Light in Performance at Rose Bruford College in London, UK. I am 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
MA Light in Performance MALIP 701,702,703,704
DMTA Modules – contextual and interdisciplinary performance 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
First Class Honours (Goldsmiths College)
Memberships
Higher Education Academy Fellow
Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), Professional Member
External Duties
2016- ongoing Trustee Wishbone Theatre Company
2014-2018 External Examiner BA Design for Performance Edge Hill University
2014-2016 Honorary Secretary Society of British Theatre Designers
Professional Practice
Recent lighting designs:
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
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 2014.
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
My research interests are within inter-disciplinary training and knowledge exchange (at Rose Bruford). How light creates and/or interacts with a performative environment (with fevered sleep). How light can guide, or respond to, the movement of a body through space (with the clod ensemble).
Ongoing Library of Light. Funded project, documenting and archiving light works.