90: Lights. Camera. Action! — Damani Pompey

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on 5.6.7.EIGHT, Aleksandra interviews Damani Pompey,</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">an NYC-based lighting designer, movement artist, and choreographer. Additionally, Damani has been involved in a great deal of TV and film work, and his credits include notable festivals like Sundance. Pompey is also the architect of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Magnus Works</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— a continuous archive of his own creative and choreographic projects, which ultimately seeks to investigate the many different languages of movement and expression, from generation to generation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pompey is a renaissance man and deep thinker, and, on the podcast, he discusses the origin stories of some of his most renown works. He also spends some time explaining how his fascination with lighting was born out of an innate curiosity and a willingness to seize an opportunity while in school. Damani also highlights some of his work in film and sheds some interesting light on the differences between dancing on film versus dancing in a studio.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Moving Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Lighting for me is all about the sensation and the mood… But it’s important to listen to what the work is calling for and what the music is doing. You can’t have beautiful, fancy, cool lights if the person is standing on stage not doing anything."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What I’m focused on right now for the future is world health and happiness. And more authenticity in my work. Anything that comes out of that, I will feel I’ve deserved because I’ve truly put in the time."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We all have the power to critically think. We all have the power to make. That’s how we’ve existed this long as humans. We know how to build, but we sometimes lack the tools. I just want to remind everyone that we all have the same types of