Lighting Designer: Samsara
Netherlands-based Yaron Abulafia is a visual artist and researcher specializing in lighting and space design for performance. Over the last 25 years, Abulafia has designed internationally over 250 performances, including opera, theater, and dance, as well as performative installations, concerts, and live TV shows. He has designed in numerous large scale opera and theatre houses like: the Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper in Berlin, Sadler’s Wells and Royal Opera House – Covent Garden (London), Poly Theatre Beijing and Shanghai International Dance Centre, Czech Republic and Israel for: Stuttgart Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Nederlands Dans Theater, English National Ballet, Ballet BC in Vancouver and Compañía Nacioanl de Danza in Spain, to mention but a few.
Abulafia has gained international reputation as an innovative performance designer whose poetic use of light as scenography creates a unique visual dimension. He holds a PhD in Performance and Theatre Studies and is the author of The Art of Light on Stage: Lighting in Contemporary Theatre (2016). It is the first-ever book on state-of-the art trends in lighting design for contemporary ‘postdramatic’ performance.
Dr. Abulafia was a curator for the exhibition WORLD STAGE DESIGN (WSD) in Calgary Canada 2022, and often teaches at institutions around the world.
Follow Yaron Abulafia – www.yaronabulafia.com
Page last updated February 2024.
