Lighting design and production
The Rite of Spring: QSO and Circa
Stravinsky's score performed live alongside Circa's acrobats. Krank'd provided lighting design and technical delivery for Queensland Symphony Orchestra's 2025 season-opening collaboration at QPAC.
Explore the production- When
- 20 to 22 February 2025
- Where
- Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane
The orchestra and company beneath a fan of white beams.
A circus interpretation of Stravinsky
Queensland Symphony Orchestra opened its 2025 season with The Rite of Spring in collaboration with Circa at QPAC's Concert Hall. The concerts ran from 20 to 22 February, conducted by Umberto Clerici, with Circa's ensemble bringing its physical interpretation to Stravinsky's score.
The wider programme also included Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano, featuring violinist Kristian Winther. In The Rite of Spring, the live orchestra and acrobats shared the stage, making the music's rhythmic force visible through bodies, balance and movement.
Following the score across musicians and acrobats
Krank'd provided the lighting design and technical delivery for the QPAC production. The lighting had to connect the orchestra's presence with the physical action of Circa's performers, keeping both parts of the collaboration within the audience's view.
Changes in contrast, colour and cue timing followed the score's shifts in intensity. The design could draw attention to a moment of physical movement, then expand back to the larger relationship between ensemble and orchestra.
This was a production in which lighting formed part of the musical pacing. Its job was to make the shared stage readable while allowing Stravinsky's score and Circa's movement to carry the performance.
