Dissidents


Resident Artist and composer Joelysa Pankanea takes you through her creative process in composing for an ARC production. Dissidents…what a beautifully dark piece. The script was sent to me months ago by Chris and I remember the morning I settled down on my couch with a hot cup of coffee to read it through. Now, you have to understand that every time I get a call from ARC with a new show on the horizon my insides squeal. I’m...

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Creative team members Nick Blais and Jackie Chau take you behind the scenes to explore the design and creation of DISSIDENTS. Nick Blais – Lighting & Immersive Design DISSIDENTS is an exciting challenge for lighting design. The show, and our vision for it, calls for all the extremes in lighting design: It needs to be sparse and complicated, intimate and intense. The script is naturalistic in moments, but it also needs to...

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