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Clay Paky lights used for ‘Dirty Dancing’ stage show

In conjunction with La Contrada - Teatro Stabile di Trieste, Wizard Productions srl acquired the exclusive performing rights of the original ‘Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage’ version for Italy from the author of the ‘Dirty Dancing’ film herself, Eleanor Bergstein. An eight piece orchestra plays the film music live.

“Federico Bellone was appointed as show director, and the adaptation is quite faithful to the film as concerns the visual aspect, i.e. the set that has been built and the realistic film lighting,” says Lighting designer Valerio Tiberi. “I asked the producers almost exclusively for Clay Paky moving lights, which I use along with the conventional theatre lighting: 26 Alpha Profile 1500s, 6 Alpha Wash 1500s and 14 Alpha Wash Halo 1200s.”

Tiberi explains how he put together his lighting design: “I built it up starting from the stage design and the constraints stemming from the spaces that needed lighting, and followed the suggestions in the script and the director's instructions. The main goal of the design was to try to 'show the film, as far as possible, to the audience', starting from scenic realism: the resort, the trees, the forest, the round terrace on the lake and the gazebo, all stylistically real: not surreal or modern or peculiar.

“I needed a lot of light and to work a lot on the contrasts. I even needed to make some of the scenes look overexposed. In the musical scenes, like in the resort dance hall for example, I had to create a 1980s show light quality and alternate saturated colours. I chose the lights for their features, especially the Profile 1500s and Wash 1500s.

“I used the Wash 1500s mainly as back lighting to re-create the atmospheres a bit, as if their light were sunlight. The halogens, on the other hand, which I especially love, produce all the pastel shades that make up the atmosphere of the various scenes and mostly follow the characters.”

(Photos: Vito Renò)

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