Kees Tjebbes

Following his studies at the Brussels Art Academy, Kees Tjebbes worked with various Dutch theatre and dance companies, including the Toneelgroep Theatre, Introdans, the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). There he created the lighting design for new productions by choreographers such as Nils Christe, Itzik Galili, Tamara Roso and Ed Wubbe. Since designing the lighting for Jiří Kylián's Click-Pause-Silence in 2000, he has worked on almost all of the choreographer's productions for NDT, including 27'52'' (2002), Sleepless (2004) and Gods and Dogs (2008), as well as Il faut qu‘une porte for the Ballet of the Opéra national de Paris in 2004. Over the past few years, Kees Tjebbes has also been responsible as lighting designer for all new or revived Kylián productions worldwide, checking them on site or redesigning them. He has also worked with choreographers such as Patrick Delcroix, Ken Ossola, Crystal Pite, Stephan Thoss and Didy Veldman.

(Information as of December 2024)