Barbara E. Thompson


Lighting Design
Dance Alloy: Lighting Designer 1993 to present
Mark Taylor, Artistic Director: Pittsburgh, PA
Original designs have included:
  • Nothing Like The Sun (Mark Taylor)
  • Get Out Of The House (Sarah Skaggs)
  • Mayfly: hello love, goodbye -- I'm dead (Mark Taylor)
  • Five Little Tragedies (Mark Taylor)
  • Dust (Anita Ratnam and Mark Taylor)
  • I Miss You (Tere O'Connor)
  • Oiseaux Tristes (Gillian Beauchamp)
  • Pope Joan (Mark Taylor)
  • Nevertheless (Mark Taylor)
  • Translocations (Mark Taylor)
  • Applause (Mark Taylor)
  • Bodice Ripper (Mark Taylor)
  • Roots/Crossroutes (Mark Taylor)
  • The Nothing That Is Not There and The Nothing That Is (Sean Curran)
  • Joint Motion: Improvisation (David Dorfman and Mark Taylor)
  • Prestige of Evil (Mark Taylor)
  • Swan Lake, Act II (Mark Taylor)
  • Ike: Body of Knowledge (Michael Pili Pang & Mark Taylor)
  • Matarisvan (Wind) (Mark Taylor)
  • Love Stories (David Roussève)
  • Antidote (Ann Carlson)
  • Perfect Ocean (Mark Taylor)
  • Get Set: Improvisation (I & II) David Dorfman and Mark Taylor)
  • Loop of Papez (Mark Taylor)
  • Echo (Elizabeth Streb)
  • Witness: Kent State (Mark Taylor)
  • Constant Climax (Mark Taylor)
  • Damage/Contest/Love’s Love’s Demise (Mark Taylor)
Re-created and maintained in repertory:
Xanadu (Mark Taylor); Province (Mark Taylor); Crossings (David Roussève):
Union Hall (Mark Taylor); A Rose Tandoori (Doug Elkins); Safe Harbor (Mark Taylor);
Beat (Mark Dendy); Words of Love (Mark Taylor); Walk People (Mitchell Rose);
Chez Louise (Miriam Herve Gil)
Halau Hula Ka No`eau: Lighting Designer 1997 to present
Michael Pili Pang, Kumu Hula: Kamuela,HI
Halemano (Traditional & Michael Pili Pang); Hi`iaka (Traditional & Michael Pili Pang);
Paiea (Traditional & Michael Pili Pang); Hawaiian Nutcracker (Michael Pili Pang)
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre:
Terrence S. Orr, Artistic Director: Pittsburgh, PA
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker TM - Lighting Designer, 1999-2001
Swan Lake (Petipa & Terrence S. Orr) - Lighting Designer, 1998
Recreated:
Cinderella (Ben Stevenson) - Designed by Tony Tucci
Don Quixote (after Marius Petipa & Alexander Gorsky) - Design by Natasha Katz
Southold Dance Theater:
Jacob Rice & Kimmary WIlliams, Artistic Directors: South Bend, IN
The Nutcracker - Lighting Designer, 2002
Dance Production
Dance Alloy
Mark Taylor, Artistic Director: Pittsburgh, PA     		 Production Manager 1989 to present
Regional Dance America/ Northeast ’98
Alun Jones, Adjudicator: Pittsburgh, PA		 Production Lighting Designer May 1998
Miami City Ballet
Edward Villella, Artistic Director: Miami Beach, FL 		Assistant Stage Manager, 1994-1996 (Seasonal)
The Joffrey Ballet
Gerald Arpino, Artistic Director: Buffalo, NY 		Assistant Stage Manager, 1990

Education
Light and Movement Workshop Jacob’s Pillow 1997
Jennifer Tipton and Dana Reitz

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 1984 - 1989
Technical Theatre/Lighting Design
Bill Nelson and Cindy Limauro, Faculty Advisors


References
            Available upon request






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