Christmas 2023 – Lighting Design
COMING SOON!!!! Celebrate Dance uses dance and dialogue to tell a story about the reason for the season. Lighting Design by Art Graf. Assisted by Maxwell Graf. Photos copyright Celebrate Dance Academy
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Spring Dance Performance 2023 – Lighting Design
The Spring Recital is always Celebrate Dance’s highlight of the year. Art designed lighting for over 60 songs and ran the lights for 6 shows (and don’t forget the 3 days of rehearsals). It’s a busy time for all involved, but worth the preparation. A big plus for this show was that all 3 of … Read more
University of Northwestern Adjunct Teaching
How many students does it take to wire a circuit board? Good question. Art was asked to teach an Electronics Circuit Lab for the Spring 2023 Semester. Some of the topics covered by the class syllabus included basic electronics, test equipment and beginning circuit design. Art enjoyed his opportunity to teach and encourage students to … Read more
Mosaics 2023 Dance Performance – Lighting Design
Mosaics Dance Company is Celebrate Dance’s pre-professional training for the intermediate-advanced level dancer. “Letters and Legacy” was inspired by the New Testament letters to the early church. A special gobo was used that featured writing to represent Paul’s script. What is a gobo? A metal pattern that is placed on a light to create a … Read more
Christmas Eve NHLC 2022 – Lighting Design
North Heights Lutheran Church (Arden Hills, MN) requested lighting design support for their Christmas Eve services, a special seasonal music and speaking event. Lighting Design and Hog programming by Art Graf. Photos copyright Arthur Graf and North Heights Lutheran Church
Prop Design – Theatre/Dance Performance Event – December 2022
Celebrate Dance Academy (Arden Hills, MN) staged the premiere of a new Christmas dance and theatre performance titled “Remember” in December 2022. The cast entered imaginary dream worlds through a mysterious door presented to them by their collective imagination. For this performance, a door was envisioned that would invite and draw the cast (and audience) … Read more
Mosaics 2022 Dance Performance – Lighting Design
Mosaics Dance Company is Celebrate Dance’s pre-professional training for the intermediate-advanced level dancer. Each performance features inspired modern dance works that just begs to have illumination of the movements. Lighting Design and Hog programming by Art Graf. Photos copyright Arthur Graf and North Heights Lutheran Church
Annual Recital 2021 – Lighting Design
Celebrate Dance Academy’s 2021 annual dance recital was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the dance school. The academy returned to the stage for their first full recital since 2019. Lighting Design by Art Graf with assistance from Ben Schultz. Artistic Direction by Sarah Pieper and the Celebrate Dance Academy instructors. Photos copyright Alexis … Read more
Mosaics 2021 – Lighting Design
Celebrate Dance Academy stretched hard and launched a late winter show as post COVID events were just starting to appear on calendars. In parallel to prior years, this show was an artistically written modern dance performance presenting connections between the human condition and faith. Titled “Spectrum: Dispersion of Light”, the show touched on the array … Read more
Kids’ Clubhouse – “The Nuthouse”
Summer of 2020, the idea I had been mulling over for years finally became reality. Kids stuck at home brought a need to draw the kids outside. Our kids’ clubhouse project sprang from tree house and clubhouse concepts. The only hard and fast requirements were that (per my wife and kids) we needed monkey bars … Read more