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LUMA: Light as Art - LUMA |
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Written by Rebecca LaPole, For NEXTnc
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
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 From time to time when a new discovery is made, the experience is nothing short of amazing.
Such is the case with Marlin, the creator of LUMA, a performance using brilliant light as “paint” on a pitch-black canvas.
“It is not just a show,” Marlin says. “It’s a new art form.”
 He’ll share it with northern Colorado residents at the Lincoln Center on Sept. 29.
In the human realm, everyone experiences three major categories of light, which the unseen cast of this performance, draped in darkness, creates in images through an extraordinary physical effort. The first, which is natural light, depicts things like borealises, lightning bugs and rainbows. Artificial light displays computer screens, flashlights and other man-made lights. Finally, metaphysical light is shown with the “LUMAN being.”
 “We are a body of light, much more than just the chassis we’re in,” Marlin says. “And LUMA is also visible to blind people.”
He is participating in a new program called Hope for Vision that is dedicated to helping the blind and raising awareness. “Most can take in light, but not shapes. I learned this from a blind child in Wisconsin who could see the stars, due to the high contrast. They can see LUMA also due to the high contrast of darkness and light.”
Audiences feel joy, as when a child waves a flashlight under the covers. “Look at this!” Everything else falls away, engrossing spectators in the show. “It’s like watching a painting of light that moves, leaving the audience in goggle-eyed wonder,” Marlin says. People thereafter look at light differently, and Marlin hopes they start playing in the dark again.
“The biggest light show we’re missing has been around for the last hundred million years,” Marlin says, referring to his major inspiration, the stars.
“The future holds an opening of the work off-Broadway, scheduled for spring of 2007.”
Marlin hopes he can create more worlds onstage for the off-Broadway opening, but until then, catch his juggling act right before LUMA takes off — with your imagination in tow.
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