Scenography and light art installation

A concert performance at Paradiso by Het ​Nederlands  Kamerorkest, on farewell, presence and rituals.

For this concert I designed the light and scenography as a responsive environment — working with absence, resonance, and quiet shifts in atmosphere. The light installation is a spirit-like centrepiece; the audience surrounds the musicians, who are sitting in a circle underneath the circular light.

The scenographic element was developed as a spirit-like centerpoint: a responsive object made of light and vertical curtains, hovering above the orchestra.
Not a backdrop, but a spatial actor — reacting subtly to sound and silence.
The musicians are surrounded by the audience in a sold-out Paradiso.

Credits
Gordan Nikolić — musical direction & violin
Elisabeth Hetherington — soprano
Nazmiye Oral — actress & texts
Jappe Groenendijk — concept, direction & texts
Frouke ten Velden — light & spatial design
Danny vd Werf / Paradiso — lights
Iris van Oltheten — production
Beautifully captured by Milagro Elstak