Lighting
Kromatik
A stage production retelling a Pandora's box myth through color and movement. Co-created with Hybrid Movement Company at Theater for the New City, NYC.
Kromatik
A stage production retelling a Pandora's box myth through color and movement. Co-created with Hybrid Movement Company at Theater for the New City in the East Village, the show moved through the entire visible spectrum — red to violet — using light itself as a narrative device. Brendan designed and ran the entire technical production: installation, electrical, lighting board, and live camera operation for the video feedback sequences. Live sound by Jason Lindner. Projections by Oliver Allaux.
As the show progressed, each scene was bathed in a different color of the visible spectrum — from deep red through orange, yellow, green, blue, and into violet. The lighting wasn't decoration; it was the story.
The show allowed Brendan to play with longstanding ideas about color and light, and to riff on some of the stage devices he'd seen used by the director Robert Wilson.
One set piece — a booth with a two-way mirror and identical lights on each side, flicked back and forth to superimpose two people — had a profound effect on audiences. People lost track of which facial features were theirs and which were the other person's. It was later installed at Superchief Gallery as a standalone piece.
Kromatik. Co-created with Hybrid Movement Company. Theater for the New City, East Village, NYC, 2019. Lighting, installation, and live video feedback by Brendan Burke. Live sound by Jason Lindner. Projections by Oliver Allaux. Photography by Shaun Gillen and ATF.
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