David Plater

freelance lighting designer working in theatre and dance. previously head of lighting @donmar , resiident designer for @balletblack

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

Today we wrapped on #BBThenOrNow, the film! Lots of exciting new things coming next season... stay tuned!

Pictured: BB!
Choreography: @willtuckettrb
Filmed by: #RoswitherChesher
Lighting design: @drplight
Costume design: @YukikoTsukamoto

#AdrienneRich #BBonFilm #BalletBlack

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

C O M I N G S O O N | Then Or Now

Pictured: #IsabelaCoracy & #MthuthuzeliNovember
Choreography: @willtuckettrb
Lighting: #DavidPlater
Design: #YukikoTsukamoto

#BBThenOrNow
#BalletBlack

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

And we're back at it with a new film! Shooting #BBWaitingGame with @poetryfilmpro and @BarbicanCentre!

#BBonFilm
#BalletBlack

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

C O M I N G S O O N | The Waiting Game

Choreography: #MthuthuzeliNovember
Photography: #BillCooper
Lighting: @drplight
Designs: #PeterTodd

Pictured: #EbonyThomas #SayakaIchikawa #CiraRobinson #IsabelaCoracy & #AlexanderFadayiro

#BalletBlack

[David Plater @drplight]

and a double congrats !!!!!

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

And it's a double celebration! Thank you to the @theBBTAs for our Best Dance Production Award, also for I N G O M A 🦋 ! 🔥🔥🔥

#bbta2020 #BalletBlack

[David Plater @drplight]

HUGE HUGE Congrats to @BalletBlack #MthuthuzeliNovember Very well deserved 🥳

[Olivier Awards @OlivierAwards]

The Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production goes to… Ingoma by #MthuthuzeliNovember for @BalletBlack at @BarbicanCentre and @RoyalOperaHouse Linbury Theatre! #OlivierAwards

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

Sunday evening throwback to 2019 & WASHA: The Burn From The Inside by Mthuthuzeli November, a co-commission between BB, The Grange Festival & Studio Wayne McGregor

Pictured: #EbonyThomas
Photography & design: #MthuthuzeliNovember
Lighting: #DavidPlater

#BalletBlack

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

We're releasing something very special on Sunday 3rd May: the full version of #BBIngoma choreographed by Mthuthuzeli November, nominated for a National Dance Award & an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production! Available for 7 days!

#BBonFilm #BalletBlack
@BarbicanCentre

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

Coming soon... #BBWaitingGame by #MthuthuzeliNovember

🚪🗝⏳

#BalletBlack

[chrismarney @chrismarney]

‘To begin, begin’ for @BalletBlack in 2016 @BarbicanCentre 📷 Bill Cooper 💡@drplight

[Anthony Banks @anthonypbanks]

Will exotic foreigner Rachel Sangalletti be welcomed in a quiet corner of Arthurian England...?
Opening night of My Cousin Rachel this evening @TheatreRBath
Thankyou to all - on and off stage - who have brought this gothic mystery to such vivid life.

[Christoph Lowe @Lowetennant]

#petshopboys #Musik,the cabaret by @JOJEHARVEY/ the @petshopboys,is to get a 4 week #London run following its sold-out,the 60-minute,one-woman show starring @francesbarber13 reprising her role as Billie Trix will run @lsqtheatre , #UK Wednesday,Feb. 5th to Sunday,March 1st. 2020

[Birmingham Royal Ballet @BRB]

Ahead of its premiere at @brumhippodrome, we're excited to release casting for our Autumn Mixed Bill.

Three stunning ballets.

The world premiere of Jack Lister's A Brief Nostalgia, Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs and @BalletBlack's, The Suit.

https://t.co/lwWdr8XARx

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

#Throwback to 2016 and our Arthur Pita ballet, #Cristaux, featuring a tutu covered in @swarovski crystals! 💎💎💎

Pictured: #CiraRobinson & #MthuthuzeliNovember
Photography: #BillCooper
Lighting: @drplight
Design: @Yannseabra

#BalletBlack

[David Plater @drplight]

Thanks to all the staff @GrangeFestival Teresa & team programmer @davidayton Ashley and all at @WayneMcGregor for a fab day lighting new piece #bbwasha and recreating #bbthesuit @BalletBlack

[David Plater @drplight]

And another fantastic piece of choreography it is too.

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

We had a great opening performance at the @GrangeFestival yesterday! Here's a photo of our new piece #bbWASHA choreographed & photographed by #MthuthuzeliNovember

One more today! 🔥🔥🔥

[David Plater @drplight]

This weeks project . Natalia Osipova dances to hell and back https://t.co/YZgn1O2NT9

[David Plater @drplight]

The fox is running the show at the queen elizabeth hall this week

[Ballet Black @BalletBlack]

Our award-winning lighting designer, Mr @drplight, working on the award-winning #BBTheSuit in our technical rehearsal today

#BalletBlack