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Clay Paky at 2004 Nights of Light in Bergamo
This year’s project was created through the use of light in a creative key in harmony with other artistic languages: music, theatre and dance. As in the past, the choice of spectacles took account of both the artistic aspects and audience participation, to confirm the character of a festival and meeting point that Nights of Lights has assumed over the last few years.
The event started on 2nd September with a spectacle of hip-hop and break dance. Born as a social and artistic movement of the ethnic minorities in the United States, hip-hop is now a genre widely studied and practised in Italy. The group invited, Aktuel Force, is one of the most well-known realities at international level. The evening of 3rd September was devoted to a spectacle of music, theatre and light that, continuing along last year’s theme dedicated to Italo Calvino, was inspired by his cult book ‘Le Cittą Invisibili’ (The Invisible Cities). Finally, on Saturday 4th September, actor Teo Teocoli brought a cutting and ironical spectacle that was mainly aimed at the personalities and world of television.
An essential and much awaited moment of the event was the Clay Paky show, a spectacle of coloured lights and graphic projections combined with music, held in the architectural context of Piazza Dante.
Claudio Angeleri, artistic director of the event, said: “It was our intention to show how light is a fundamental element of artistic expression, that can dialogue with music and dance, but can also bring out the best from historic and architectural elements, like the ones in the Piazza. Last year the light show was conceived as a dynamic picture that could interpret a very rhythmic piece of music with expression. This year, however, we decided to offer a lighting spectacle conceived on an atmospheric piece of music, proof of the extreme versatility of a technology, that of professional lighting for spectacles, as designed by Clay Paky of Bergamo and exported by them all over the world.”
The light project was the work of Renato Neri of Xenon, with the technical and artistic support of Andrea Mantovani. Xenon also looked after the organisation and the setting up of the stage. The direction of the shows was by Oreste Castagna, well-known in the world of theatre and television.
The lighting equipment included Stage Profile Plus SV for front lights and for lighting and shaping projections on the Courthouse, Super Scan Zooms, Stage Light 300s, some Stage Zoom 1200s and Stage Color 1200s. Twenty CP Colors were used for colouring the pilasters of the Courthouse and the gardens of the Piazza.
12th October 2004
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