Rick Murray
Rick Murray has been designing lighting and installations for performance both nationally and internationally since 1989. The majority of his work has been with dance, operas, and music, both experimental and traditional. Murray in his projects and collaborations works to create intricate working structures, and a vocabulary for light in a performance space. Murray has been designing the lighting and environments in all of Kimberly Bartosik's choreographic works since 2000 in NYC and abroad. Murray has created the lighting designs for Ralph Lemon since 2004 including major touring works in the US and in France. Murray’s designs for Benjamin Millepied, and Los Angeles Dance Project, include over a dozen world premieres at venues in Europe and the U.S. and for commissioned works for NYCB, ABT, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Lyon Opèra Ballet, Ballet Dortmund and others. In 2006 he designed the lighting for Sekou Sundiata's epic 51st Dream State at BAM. In 2008 he was invited to design the lighting for Paul Simon's Songs from the Capeman, at BAM. Murray designed a premiere for Hot Mouth at the Peacock Theater at the West End in London in 1996. He collaborates regularly with Kathy Westwater, and Dusan Tynek, and he has also designed the lighting for Ballet di Roma, Karen Sherman, Jessica Mitrani, David Thomson, Troy Schumacher (Ballet Collective), Yanira Castro, Yasuko Yokoshi, Tim Fain, Ethel, Luca Veggetti, Wally Cardona, Morphoses, Donna Uchizono, Paradigm, Scotty Heron, Pepatian, Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, Bill Young and Dancers, Ricochet Dance, and many others. Murray’s installations have been commissioned by NYLA, and FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival. Murray performed for nine years with the fabulous Circus Amok, and was recently the DJ in Jérôme Bel’s “The Show Must Go On”. Murray has taught at Purchase College and Hunter College.