A rooted, slightly clawing dark little figure, she moves slowly and in her own world against a dimly lighted backdrop of stagehands preparing for the next section.
Against a strikingly lighted backdrop of water plunging into the footprints of the twin towers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his wife laid a wreath at the National September 11 Memorial on Thursday night, near the names of some of the four Israeli citizens who died in the attacks.
Viewers were invited to record a video of themselves performing karaoke in front of a TalkTalk bright lights backdrop, and clips were screened as part of TalkTalk's sponsorship break bumpers.
Its colored-light backdrops, elegant white furniture and angular, repetitive gestures will be familiar to his fans.
Popular culture is built on the idea of theatricality; while we may like the idea of a band representing something raw and real, lights, backdrops and amplification all separate them – and us – from reality.
The cover art has a light blue backdrop that manages, with Pavlovian efficacy, to evoke the cover of "The Lovely Bones".
Underneath the artist's front page headline, "A Teenager With Promise," sits a large image of Michael Brown against a light blue backdrop in his green and red high school cap and gown.
If, on the other hand, your friend's name isn't clickable, but his or her profile picture is set to the "default" Facebook picture (androgynous white silhouette against light blue backdrop), s/he has probably deleted his or her profile.
In Jennifer Tipton's lighting the backdrop changes from dark to bright and back again.
The film mixes shadow puppetry and real light, painted backdrops and gauzes, montaged photographs and captions.
