For this Quadrennial Holland has chosen the designers occupying themselves with Location Theatre. For the last 10 years Location Theatre has played an important part in the scene of Dutch Theatre. Together, directors and dosignors havo chosen the environment outside the classical theatre building. Nature, ruins, an old fortress, a church, a ship and water aro important locations where performances are being staged. The location as well as the performance stagod there presents an experience for the audience. For the makers of theatre the location provides extra dimension and power of expression.
The costume designer, that Holland honours here, is Tessa Lute, who exhibited special designs during tho last 4 yoars of hor life. Holland thought a tribute to her was called for.
- Sanne Danz
* 1961
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: She graduated from the Academy voor Arts, Minerva in Gro-ningen, followed by an education at De Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Works as a set designer for the Theatre group Suver Nuver. She is a designer for theatre on location. She also designed for exhibitions and also teaches on several schools of Art in the Netherlands.
- Matt Vermeulen
* 1965
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: He was educated at the Academy for Fine Arts in Arnhem. At this moment he is a freelance designer for several theatre groups and directors.
- Guus van Geffen
* 1960
Specialization: teacher, set designer, costume designer, lighting designer
Additional information: Self made stage and light designer. Working for various theatre groups, film makers, artists, festivals and theatre schools as an independent designer. Designed the Cathe-dral built of ropes, stones, and glass used for the play Lazarus in 2001.
- Sjoerd Wagenaar
* 1966, Groningen
Specialization: theatre director, set designer
Additional information: Stage designer, performer, director. He was educated at the School of Arts and design The Minorva acadomy in Groningen and at DasArts Institute at Amsterdam.Three years ago he founded his own theatre group for site specific theatre The PeerGroup. With this group ho creates coproductions with Grandtheatre In Groningen and Independent productions.
He exhibited at PQ in 1999.
- Pieter De Kimpe
Specialization: architect
Additional information: Hoe works as a freelance theatre designer, specialised in repertory theatre in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Peter do Kimpe designed ABE theatre production in an football stadium and Peer Gynt both under direction of Jos Thie. With tho same director he staged Orfeo et Euridice, an opera performed on a lake in the north of Holland. At the moment Peter do Kimpe is chairman for the Scenography Commission of OISTAT International. He teaches at the Theatre Academy at the department for directors as well for technicians. He exhibited at PQ in 1999.
- Dogtroep (company)
Additional information: Dogtrtroep, founded in 1975, is an Amsterdam company that has achieved fame well over the Dutch borders with large-scale imagery theatre performances, at various indoors and outdoors locations. The group uses images, acting and music and hardly any text. The group consists of a regular team of 12 people, which is joined per production by free-lance staff members: musicians, designers, stylists, techni-cians and actors.
- Koos Hoogeveg
Additional information: The Lunatics (with Rutger Bergboer)
Both graduated from Academy of performing Arts in Kam-pen, Netherlands. Theatre group The Lunatics special-ises in making non-verbal street and location theatre since 1994, mainly using large objects and extraordinary light and sound effects.
- Leo de Nijs
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: He is the designer for the Theatregroup Hollandia for many years. This group is specialised in location theatre and the most important theatre group of the Netherlands. The group performed in empty factories, green houses, fortifications, laboratories, farms etc. He specialised himself in collaboration with the directors Johan Simons en Paul Koek, as a designer for location theatre
- Rutger Bergboer
Additional information: The Lunatics ( with Koos Hoogeveg)
Both graduated from Academy of performing Arts in Kam-pen, Netherlands. Theatre group The Lunatics special-ises in making non-verbal street and location theatre since 1994, mainly using large objects and extraordinary light and sound effects.
- Bea de Visser
Specialization: theatre director, set designer
Additional information: She studied design in public space and painting, and left the Academy for Visual Art to follow a practical study electro-acoustic sound. She works within a frame ranging from an obscure artist initiative to a well established museum, but also the public space, the theatre and the cinema within the scope of her work. Won Best foreign film award, Novi Sad, for film A Breath Hush, (director, scenario, edit, sound design, production). She explores intimacy and complexity of human relations, using photography, film, video, drawing, digital media, painting and sound performances. Her work is authentic and unconventional, with generous images and autonomous sounds.
