How ‘Illinoise’ Lighting Designer Created a ‘Visual Vocabulary’ Using Sufjan Stevens’ Album on Broadway

It was in 2010 at the New York City Ballet when Brandon Stirling Baker, the lighting designer of Broadway’s “Illinoise” met Justin Peck, the director and choreographer. One of the first things they ever talked about was Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 indie folk concept album “Illinois,” Baker says. “And that wasn’t that we had any agenda. […]