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Jennifer Tipton

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Jennifer Tipton
Born (1937-09-11) September 11, 1937 (age 86)
EducationThomas Skelton
Alma materCornell University
AwardsThe Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program

Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937) is an American lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater, and opera. She is known for working on many productions of American Ballet Theatre.[1]

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[Music] I'm Jennifer Tipton, a lighting designer for theater here in New York, and I think it was here at the Whitney that I first came to know the work of Edward Hopper, and really fell in love with it both as a lighting designer and just as a person. He uses light in an inexpressible way-- in a way that makes you feel something that is very difficult to articulate. The name of this painting is "New York Movie." One would think that the light from the screen would be the primary source, but it hardly seems to light the faces, even. That light seems to come from this side and not be the same color as the light on the screen. Instead, Hopper directs us to the offstage scene, if you would, the usher waiting for patrons. The light is very cold on that side of the painting, even though there are red shades and red curtains. Quite a feeling of isolation. "Conference at Night" depicts a situation that's totally unrealistic. There seems to be no source of light in the room itself. The light comes entirely from the window. I can't figure out what that source could be that is so bright that it would light through two windows like that and not be the sun. It feels scary--very bleak, empty. "Route 6 Eastham"-- it seems, it feels, just like a nice landscape but it's hard to figure out-- well, you see the angle of light that comes like that, alright, that lights the house, but it also lights and makes this shadow in the road. It's not the same sun at all and, therefore, it's very hard to tell time of day. Not only is it difficult to know the time of day, it's difficult to know the time of the year. My first impulse was to say summer, and yet this looks like spring in the light-colored green of the grass. This looks like fall with color and it's hard whether this is this color of the sun or that the tree itself is changing color. It's very strange indeed.

Life and career

Tipton was born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University.[2] While performing as a dancer and rehearsal mistress, she noticed the importance of lighting, and studied dance lighting with Thomas Skelton, becoming his assistant.[3]

Her first lighting design for Broadway was in 1969 for Our Town. Among her many awards and nominations, she won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for lighting Andrei Serban's production of The Cherry Orchard and the 1989 Tony Award for lighting for Jerome Robbins' Broadway. She also has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design twice.

She is known for her designs for dance and is the principal lighting designer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company.[3] Choreographers she has worked with include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiří Kylián, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Dan Wagoner, and Shen Wei.

Tipton has designed lighting on many plays for the American Ballet Theatre, starting with A Soldier's Tale (1971). Other productions she worked on include Amnon V’Tamar, Bach Partita, Le Baiser de la Fée, Ballet Imperial, Brief Fling, Bruch Violin Concerto No.1, and Bum’s Rush.[1]

She designed the lighting for Baryshnikov's production of The Nutcracker, both for the stage and for television.[4]

In 2001, Tipton was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life."[5]

In January 2008, Tipton designed a large lighting display for the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. It was her first non-theatrical installation.[6][7]

In September 2008, she won a MacArthur Grant.[8]

She has served as Professor (Adjunct) of Design at the Yale School of Drama since 1981. Tipton trained many lighting designers, including Donald Holder, Christopher Akerlind, Michael Chybowski, M.L. Geiger and Robert Wierzel. 2006 Tony award winner Howell Binkley assisted her for many years.

A 1991 biographical article in The New York Times stated: "There are perhaps a dozen lighting designers in the country who work steadily enough to support themselves by their art, and maybe half a dozen who are acclaimed and in demand. Among these is Jennifer Tipton, characterized most often for the impeccability of her taste and a certain precision and cerebral quality to her work -- which have earned her two Tony awards, among other prizes during her 25 years in the theater."[9]

In a New York Times article, Tipton stated: "I feel that light is like music. In some abstract, emotional, noncerebral, nonliterary way, it makes us feel, it makes us see, it makes us think, all without knowing exactly how and why."[10] She talks about how probably 99.9% of the audience isn't even really aware of it. A lot of thought is put into the lighting of a show, dance, performance, etc. and almost no one really appreciates it.[10]

Tipton believes that the most important differences with designing lighting for dance and theater is that in dance, darkness is forbidden. You have to see dance to know what's going on but in theater, you just need to listen to it.[10]

Politico described Tipton as seeing light "as a potent, versatile, mysterious, art form".[11]

In 2018, she designed for To Kill a Mockingbird.

Stage work and awards (selected)

References

  1. ^ a b "Jennifer Tipton". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  2. ^ Tipton listing news.cornell.edu
  3. ^ a b A Brief History of Stage lighting Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine northern.edu, accessed May 26, 2009
  4. ^ Credits American Ballet Theatre.org, accessed May 26, 2009
  5. ^ The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Archived 2013-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, official website.
  6. ^ Dalton, Joseph."NIght Light" Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback MachineTimes-Union, empac.rpi.edu, January 13, 2008
  7. ^ Events Archived 2008-01-19 at the Wayback Machine empac.rpi.edu, accessed May 26, 2009
  8. ^ "Three Yale Affiliates Receive MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants" Archived 2010-07-13 at the Wayback Machine opa.yale.edu, October 3, 2008
  9. ^ Stone, Elizabeth."THEATER; Through the Lens Brightly With Jennifer Tipton",The New York Times, April 14, 1991
  10. ^ a b c "Tipton,Jennifer" Current Biography Yearbook 1997 The H. W. Wilson Company. 1997. page 560.
  11. ^ Carrera, Claudia (3 November 2011). "The queen of theater lighting, Jennifer Tipton, gets a spotlight for herself in two New York performances". politico.com. politico. Retrieved 28 March 2018. "as a potent, versatile, mysterious art form.
  12. ^ Robinson, Alice M.; Roberts, Vera Mowry; Barranger, Milly S. (eds.). Notable Women in the American Theater: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut. p. 874.

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