freelance lighting designer working in theatre and dance. previously head of lighting @donmar , resiident designer for @balletblack
Joined May 2010
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David Plater retweeted
Today we wrapped on #BBThenOrNow, the film! Lots of exciting new things coming next season... stay tuned!
Pictured: BB!
Choreography: @willtuckettrb
Filmed by: #RoswitherChesher
Lighting design: @drplight
Costume design: @YukikoTsukamoto
#AdrienneRich #BBonFilm #BalletBlack
David Plater retweeted
C O M I N G S O O N | Then Or Now
Pictured: #IsabelaCoracy & #MthuthuzeliNovember
Choreography: @willtuckettrb
Lighting: #DavidPlater
Design: #YukikoTsukamoto
#BBThenOrNow
#BalletBlack
David Plater retweeted
And we're back at it with a new film! Shooting #BBWaitingGame with @poetryfilmpro and @BarbicanCentre!
#BBonFilm
#BalletBlack
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C O M I N G S O O N | The Waiting Game
Choreography: #MthuthuzeliNovember
Photography: #BillCooper
Lighting: @drplight
Designs: #PeterTodd
Pictured: #EbonyThomas #SayakaIchikawa #CiraRobinson #IsabelaCoracy & #AlexanderFadayiro
#BalletBlack
and a double congrats !!!!!
And it's a double celebration! Thank you to the @theBBTAs for our Best Dance Production Award, also for I N G O M A 🦋 ! 🔥🔥🔥
#bbta2020 #BalletBlack
HUGE HUGE Congrats to @BalletBlack #MthuthuzeliNovember Very well deserved 🥳
The Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production goes to… Ingoma by #MthuthuzeliNovember for @BalletBlack at @BarbicanCentre and @RoyalOperaHouse Linbury Theatre! #OlivierAwards
David Plater retweeted
Sunday evening throwback to 2019 & WASHA: The Burn From The Inside by Mthuthuzeli November, a co-commission between BB, The Grange Festival & Studio Wayne McGregor
Pictured: #EbonyThomas
Photography & design: #MthuthuzeliNovember
Lighting: #DavidPlater
#BalletBlack
David Plater retweeted
We're releasing something very special on Sunday 3rd May: the full version of #BBIngoma choreographed by Mthuthuzeli November, nominated for a National Dance Award & an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production! Available for 7 days!
#BBonFilm #BalletBlack
@BarbicanCentre
David Plater retweeted
‘To begin, begin’ for @BalletBlack in 2016 @BarbicanCentre 📷 Bill Cooper 💡@drplight – at Kensington, London
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Will exotic foreigner Rachel Sangalletti be welcomed in a quiet corner of Arthurian England...?
Opening night of My Cousin Rachel this evening @TheatreRBath
Thankyou to all - on and off stage - who have brought this gothic mystery to such vivid life.
David Plater retweeted
#petshopboys #Musik,the cabaret by @JOJEHARVEY/ the @petshopboys,is to get a 4 week #London run following its sold-out,the 60-minute,one-woman show starring @francesbarber13 reprising her role as Billie Trix will run @lsqtheatre , #UK Wednesday,Feb. 5th to Sunday,March 1st. 2020
David Plater retweeted
Ahead of its premiere at @brumhippodrome, we're excited to release casting for our Autumn Mixed Bill.
Three stunning ballets.
The world premiere of Jack Lister's A Brief Nostalgia, Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs and @BalletBlack's, The Suit.
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David Plater retweeted
#Throwback to 2016 and our Arthur Pita ballet, #Cristaux, featuring a tutu covered in @swarovski crystals! 💎💎💎
Pictured: #CiraRobinson & #MthuthuzeliNovember
Photography: #BillCooper
Lighting: @drplight
Design: @Yannseabra
#BalletBlack
Thanks to all the staff @GrangeFestival Teresa & team programmer @davidayton Ashley and all at @WayneMcGregor for a fab day lighting new piece #bbwasha and recreating #bbthesuit @BalletBlack
And another fantastic piece of choreography it is too.
We had a great opening performance at the @GrangeFestival yesterday! Here's a photo of our new piece #bbWASHA choreographed & photographed by #MthuthuzeliNovember
One more today! 🔥🔥🔥
This weeks project . Natalia Osipova dances to hell and back theguardian.com/stage/2019/j…
David Plater retweeted
Our award-winning lighting designer, Mr @drplight, working on the award-winning #BBTheSuit in our technical rehearsal today
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