Light Animated Figure Skating
Lucentury technology isn’t reserved only for stage performers. Recently, choreographer Lisa Navarro and figure skating coach Colleen Phillips chose to incorporate Lucentury technology into their protege's performance at the Crystalline Figure Skating Competition 2010 in Santa Rosa, CA.
In preparation for the performance, Lucentury installed lighting technology into the skater’s costume. The addition of lights to the costume’s front did not affect the weight of the costume, nor did it restrict the skater’s range of motion.
The skater Isabella Moro performed to Madonna’s "I'm Going Bananas", and the light choreography personified the whimsical, humorous nature of the piece. At times, the light sequences reflected the lyrics of the song by forming bananas and bats in the belfry. At other times, the Lucentury software’s real time beat and pitch recognition provided playful animation which reacted to the music and complemented the movements of the skater.
While in this case it was most effective to place the lights in a single rectangular area of the costume, Lucentury can incorporate lights anywhere throughout a garment. This is something that is not possible with such technologies like Philips LumaLive, that provides only square shaped lighted areas. Also, unlike other technologies, Lucentury provides non repeating lighting animation for extended periods of time to light-choreograph the whole show, without, for example, 10 min restriction of LumaLive.
For this ice skating performance, Lucentury chose to create much brighter animation on the costume - to provide greater visibility throughout the venue.
Lucentury technology can be controlled remotely, reacts to music, and uses beat and pitch recognition technology.
More importantly, however, not being just a technology provider, Lucentury aims to facilitate light choreography, to complement the performer and add to the artistic value of the piece itself.