Category: light design
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Jihad an Nafs
IMPACT / Nabil Tkhidousset Light design for a solo performance by Nabil Tkhidousset About In the performance Jihad an Nafs (the battle of the soul) we follow the development of Moesa. He grows up with an abusive father and an emotionally absent mother. Moesa doesn’t know what to do with his emotions. Fear. Sadness. Pain.…
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Mini Miss Miraculous
Club Gewalt Light design for a music theatre piece by Club Gewalt, in collaboration with Robbert Klein (Club Gewalt) and the collective. About futuristic-midi-pop for a tiny future CLUB GEWALT practices the desire for de-growth by creating MINI MISS MIRACULOUS (MMM). As an oracle from the future, MMM comes to preach the so-called shrinkage gospel: the human…
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Tap Noir
Eraker & Schellekens A piece for one dancer and three stroboscopes, connected through contact microphones and sensors. Imagined, developed and produced together with dancer / choreographer Janne Eraker. About If tap dance still makes you think about musicals with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, then Tap Noir will change that at breakneck speed. In a…
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Sylvia & Ted
House of Rat (formerly Bureau Dégradé) Light design for a theatre play by David Geysen about the tumultuous life and work relationship of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. About Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are considered the leading poets of their generation (1950s and 1960s). Two authors, each with a powerful voice who gave…
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The Lady Birds
Korzo Crosstown About In 2021 Crosstown, the talent development program for ambitious young dancers will turn 15 years old. Especially for this anniversary, choreographer and theater maker Ryan Djojokarso is creating a new piece for and with the Crosstown dancers in which he approaches the classic Swan Lake from the ensemble: The Lady Birds Odette…
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Ginger & Storm
Dopamime Light design including some video content for a performance by Dopamime. About DOPAMIME purely and passionately depicts the insane and all-defining love between Ginger and Storm. They show their limitless love to each other in alienating ways, in all facets and extremities. Terrified of losing the other, they lose themselves more and more. A…
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Free at Last
Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam / Danae & Dionysios Light design for a dance piece by Danae & Dionysios. About Mystical imagery and dark atmosphere. Greek tradition is deconstructed and linked with the present, as the legendary Dance of Zalongos inspires an original choreography. Danae and Dionysios, carry the emotionally charged “last dance” from the edge of…
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België
Bureau Dégradé Light design for an interdisciplinary performance by Bureau Dégradé. About After Motel Detroit (a performance about the US) and Polonium 210 (about Russia), Dégradé now returns to its roots in Belgium. Theater makers Carl Beukman and David Geysen made a road trip as a preparation for this performance. From the Flemish fields that…
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Get The Fuck Out Of My Pool
Likeminds Factory / Bureau Dégradé Light design for a collaboration between Dégradé and the young talents of the Likeminds Factory. About “Six young top talents jump in at the deep end and never resurface” “Sick minds who came up with this” “Get the fuck out of my pool is a relevant contemporary fairy tale” “No…
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Exit, pursued by a bear
Maas Theater and Dance Light design for the final piece of Arthur Rosenfeld and Ana Teixidó at Maas TD (formerly Meekers). About How do you cram 45 years of experience as a dancer, choreographer, boss, and enfant terrible into a single performance? Arthur Rosenfeld, in what he imagines might be his “final” performance, is looking…