theatre
In the Forest
stage set & lighting 1997
Image from In the Forest performed at Public Domain in Austin, TX
set design and lighting by John Christensen, choreography by Andrea Beckham
This production in a small theatre included dancing trees and used the forest as metaphor for an occluded - at times safe or threatening - and intimate space.
backlit b-bag
mixed media 80 x 20 x 15” 2019
Light-Night Dance
mixed media
5,000 sq. ft. plaza 2013
still image from an illuminated site performance - the Light-Night / Bike-Light Dance Project, performed at the LBJ Library Plaza in Austin, TX choreography by Andrea Beckham
Scar
steel, fabric, light 22 x 3 x 2 ft 2019
Scar anchored four gender-varied duets for DRT - Fortitude Spring 2019, performed at the Payne Theatre in Austin, TX.
Choreography - Andrea Beckham, Lighting - Austin Shirley
Comb-Gate
mixed media 20 x 18 x 2 ft 2011
Image from Blurred Boundaries performed by DRT, Payne Theatre in Austin, TX.
Set design by John Christensen, choreography by Andrea Beckham, lighting design by Rachel Atkinson, technical direction by Nathan Graham
The comb-gate's relative substantiality varied with lighting.
All Round Me
projected video still 1998
Image from All Round Me performed with the Sharir Dance Company in Austin TX, at SEAMUS at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH, and at the ICMC'99 conference in Beijing China
Set design & projected video animation by John Christensen, choreography by Andrea Beckham & Yacov Sharir, lighting design by Amarante Lucero, music composed by Russell Pinkston.
This collaborative project created an environment for dance that magnified unseen experience - crowding spirits, life-cycles. Animation included images of fading ghosts, a dancer, rain, falling leaves, a rising flock of birds.
Earth Verses
stage set 1995
Image from Earth Verses performed with Sharir Dance Company, Payne Theater, Austin, TX.
Set design by John Christensen, choreography by Yacov Sharir and Andrea Beckham.
Upright closed body-bag
canvas+ 70 x 20 x 15" 1994
sculpture used in performance with the choreographer Andrea Beckham
Lung
stage set and lighting 1992
Performed at Payne Theatre, Austin, TX
Collaboration with Jose Bustamante, choreographer
Chambered Time
stage set 1993
Performed at Synergy Studios, Austin, TX.
Collaboration with Jose Bustamante, choreographer.
Shadow Box
stage set and lighting 1993
design for an AHS production Director: Billy Dragoo
Hammerflutes
mixed media ht = 98" 1993
sculptures used in Duende with Jose Bustamante, choreographer
Naked Umbrella
stage set and lighting 1993
performed in Austin and Dallas
performance - collaboration with Andrea Beckham, choreographer
What is this Heaven..?
stage set and lighting 1993
Performed at Synergy Studios, Austin, TX.
image from Performance - Sally Jacque, choreographer