Kees Tjebbes

After studying at the Brussels Academy of Arts, Kees Tjebbes worked with several Dutch theatre and dance companies, including Toneelgroep Theater, Introdans, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, and Nederlands Dans Theater. For Introdans and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, he also developed lighting designs for new works by choreographers such as Ed Wubbe, Nils Christe and Itzik Galili.

In 2000, Jiří Kylián commissioned him to create the lighting design for Click-Pause-Silence. Since then, he has collaborated with Kylián on nearly all his dance productions: 27’52 (NDT II/2002), Claude Pascal (NDT I/2002), When Time Takes Time (NDT III/2002), Far Too Close (NDT III/2003), Last Touch (NDT I/2003), Sleepless (NDT II/2004), Toss of a Dice (NDT I/2005), Chapeau (NDT II/2006), Tar and Feathers (NDT I/2006), Vanishing Twin (NDT I/2008), Gods and Dogs (NDT II/2008), Mémoires d’Oubliettes (NDT I/2009), and Il Faut qu’une Porte (2004) for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris.

In recent years, Kees Tjebbes has overseen, adapted, or completely redesigned the lighting for nearly all Kylián productions revived or restaged around the world.