Hansjörg Schmidt
Programme Director, MA Light in Performance. Subject Leader, Visual Design for Public Spaces
Summary
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/