Jennifer Tipton went to college as an physics major, 'wanting to be the first person on the moon.' Both her parents were scientists. 'My father was a zoologist and my mother was a physicist.' Instead, she fell in love with dance, something she'd been pursuing since she was 15 and switched her...
Jennifer Tipton went to college as an physics major,"wanting to be the first person on the moon." Both her parents were scientists."My father was a zoologist and my mother was a physicist." Instead, she fell in love with dance, something she'd been pursuing since she was 15 and switched her major at Cornell to English.
After graduation, she moved to New York City to be a dancer."I joined a dance company called the Merry Go Rounders which danced for children." Three years into that, she became a rehearsal mistress which entailed watching all the performances so that she could critique the dancers. Despite her accomplishments, lighting design has been a career path that doesn't pay exceptionally well in New York City with all the talented people theaters can draw upon there, she said. Regional theaters pay better, she said.
Teaching allowed her to look more closely at what she herself was doing with lighting."When I started teaching I heard myself saying something to the class and then I said ' Well, if I truly believe that, I should change the way I do things.' And have changed it to the better."
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