Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts.[1] Several different types of stage lighting instruments are used in this discipline.[2] In addition to basic lighting, modern stage lighting can also include special effects, such as lasers and fog machines. People who work on stage lighting are commonly referred to as lighting technicians or lighting designers.
The equipment used for stage lighting (e.g. cabling, dimmers, lighting instruments, controllers) are also used in other lighting applications, including corporate events, concerts, trade shows, broadcast television, film production, photographic studios, and other types of live events. The personnel needed to install, operate, and control the equipment also cross over into these different areas of "stage lighting" applications.
^[1][permanent dead link], Stage Lighting Design Principle and Process
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Stagelighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts. Several different types...
Stagelighting instruments (lanterns, or luminaires in Europe) are used in stagelighting to illuminate theatrical productions, concerts, and other performances...
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light...
Stagelighting accessories are components manufactured for conventional (non-automated) stagelighting instruments. Most conventional fixtures are designed...
the stage manager or show control programming, if show control systems are used in that production. Outside stagelighting, the job of a lighting designer...
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene...
LED stagelighting is a stagelighting technology that uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a light source. LED instruments are an alternative to traditional...
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An electrical lighting technician, or simply lighting technician, are involved with rigging stage and location sets and controlling artificial, electric...
A lighting control system incorporates communication between various system inputs and outputs related to lighting control with the use of one or more...
excessive artificial lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term light pollution refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting sources, during the...
(US English), light fitting (UK English), or luminaire is an electrical lighting device containing one or more light sources, such as lamps, and all the...
A lighting control console (also called a lightboard, lighting board, or lighting desk) is an electronic device used in theatrical lighting design to...
Plasma lamps have been used in high bay and street lighting applications, as well as in stagelighting. They were briefly used in some projection televisions...
Intelligent lighting refers to lighting that has automated or mechanical abilities beyond those of conventional, stationary illumination. Although the...
A laser lighting display or laser light show involves the use of laser light to entertain an audience. A laser light show may consist only of projected...
electrical connector primarily used in professional audio, video, and stagelighting equipment. XLR connectors are cylindrical in design, with three to seven...
rapidly (burn) in the presence of air. Limelight became a popular form of stagelighting in the early 19th century, by heating a piece of calcium oxide to incandescence...
Portable lighting devices Limelight – Type of stagelighting once used in theatres and music halls (obsolete) Oil lamp – Lamp used for lighting by burning...
light) is a non-electric type of stagelighting once used in theatres and music halls, and was the first solid-state lighting device. An intense illumination...