{"id":17,"date":"2019-05-28T11:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:54:23","slug":"lighting-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dutch-born Roderick Van Gelder’s approach to lighting is to visualise emotions by transforming the space and forms onstage. He has been achieving such transformations with increasing success over many years, working within the disciplines of contemporary dance, classical ballet, musical theatre, opera, rock and roll, and unusual outdoor spectacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neigend IJzer – Coen Haven 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

His career\nhas taken him around the world working with a long list of theatre, dance and\nopera companies in many capacities: from production manager and technical\ndirector to stage manager and lighting designer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Satyricon – Taller AMsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a major\ncareer move in 1990 he accepted a residency as production manager and lighting\ndesigner for Sydney Dance Company.  <\/em>He lit Graeme Murphy’s King Roger,<\/em> Nearly Beloved, Poppy<\/em>, Bard\nBits<\/em> and Piano Sonata<\/em>. Other\nworks for Sydney Dance Company included Lucrecia<\/em>\n(Alfred Williams) and Mooggrah <\/em>(Stephen\nPage). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1993\nhe lit productions throughout Australia and Asia such as: Sandsiren<\/em> for the Australian Ballet, A Midsummernight’s Dream <\/em>in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney,\nMelbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide and a range of corporate\nproductions.  He was Technical Manager\nfor Baryshnikov\u2019s Australian and New Zealand 1996 tour and the opera A\u00efda<\/em> in Singapore in the same year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sand Siren – Australian Ballet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After accepting the position of Technical Manager at the Hordern Pavilion and Royal Hall of Industries in 1998, Roderick became interested in risk management and occupational health and safety for the entertainment industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brief Encounters – Hunters Hill Theatre
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In 2015 Roderick returned to the performing arts and lighting design.  He lit a range of production for Hunters Hill Theatre and the Australian College for Theatre and Television (now AFTT).  He designed the lighting for the collaborations between Ken Unsworth and Australian Dance Artists.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seven Impossible Pieces – Ken Unsworth and Australian Dance Artists<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\nOther production included \u2018Forge\u2019 for Annalouise Paul, \u2018Early Ones\u2019 and \n\u2018Buddah\u2019s Wife\u2019 for Eileen Kramer, \u2018Three Voices\u2019 for Sonya Holowell and\n Elia Bosshard and \u2018The Other Woman\u2019 for Lisa Schouw, “Siren, Simply \nDevinyls” for Lesley ‘Max’ Anton, “Vertical Fields” Elia Bosshard.  \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three Voices – Sonya Holowell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\nEarlier this year he lit \u2018Somewhere between hello and goodbye\u2019, a \ncollaboration between Lisa Schouw, Chrissie Koltai and Anca \nFrankenhauser.
More recently he designed ‘Minky opens a Gallery’ and ‘Altered Love’, both for Sydney Fringe 2019.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Minky opens a gallery” Jodine Wolman<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dutch-born Roderick Van Gelder’s approach to lighting is to visualise emotions by transforming the space and forms onstage. He has been achieving such transformations with increasing success over many years, working within the disciplines of contemporary dance, classical ballet, musical theatre, opera, rock and roll, and unusual outdoor spectacles. His career has taken him around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roderickvangelder.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}