I am currently working on reorganizing this section - hopefully it won't take too long, but I hope the visual materials will be more easy to access, and I would like to add some writing.

since 2002 I've been working as a lighting designer, mostly for independent dance projects, and then sometimes for music and small opera productions. I studied at the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Artes (IUNA - National Arts University), in Buenos Aires, though I didn't graduate because I decided, before finishing my studies there, to move to The Netherlands.

I am mostly interested in lighting that creates spaces and dynamics somewhat independently from the performances; a kind of extra player or performer with which also the dancers and musicians (or the dance and the music) have to interact. not a subsidiary thing, but another layer that challenges and triggers new aspects of the performance.

- - the following is some documentation I managed to collect from the work I did as a lighting designer which is, per se, difficult to document. on top of that and in spite of all my efforts, I'm also not that good at keeping track of that kind of documentation. and then, specially because of the low quality of the material, sometimes I preferred to put down a series of small pictures rather than big ones, in the hope that the serie can give a better idea of how the lighting evolves in the pieces. - -

from 'Hojas muertas' (CCRojas, Buenos Aires, 2004)
choreography by Adrián Herrero, photos by Javier Sabaté

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from 'Zugarramurdi' (La Catedral, Buenos Aires, 2004)
choreography by Pablo Fontdevila, photos by Javier Sabaté

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from 'Disappear' (De Theaterschool, Amsterdam, 2006)
choreography by Pablo Fontdevila, photos by Theo van Loon

I find 'time', the musicality of lighting, is its most exciting aspect. I also like very blunt and obvious lighting events and states, and using household or industrial or rare lighting sources, when possible.

I think the timing of lighting is an important dramaturgical tool that, like sound, supports continuity and flow within the theater piece.

from 'The Factbook ' (De Theaterschool, Amsterdam, 2008)
choreography by Pablo Fontdevila, photos by Theo van Loon

Also, I will be working soon in performances by Diana Theocharidis, doing lighting once more in Argentina (after 4 years), and continuing to explore the use of fluorescent tubes and non theatrical light sources.

from 'smaller, slower, unproductive and resentful'
(het veem theater, Amsterdam, 2009)
choreography by Pablo Fontdevila (video stills)

from 'The Movement Network ' (Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam, 2006)
choreographies by Celia Granum and Jennifer Hannah (video stills)

from 'Medcezir' (Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij, Amsterdam, 2008)
concert by Axyz ensemble and guests (video stills)

from 'Hojas muertas'
(CCRojas and Galpón de la Comedia, Buenos Aires, 2004)
choreography by Adrián Herrero (video stills)

At the moment I'm very interested in exploring more movement and vibration in lighting, and its tactility. Don't really know how or when or where, yet, but it will come. I'm working in starting a blog or some sort of public writing space where to reflect on lighting.

from 'Postales de los Ríos - Decoupage'
(sala Ana Itelman, Buenos Aires, 2003)
choreography by Aníbal Jiménez (video stills)

Through these years I've been working as a lighting designer in projects by: Grupo Tercas Hembras Tuercas, Adrián Herrero, Aníbal Jiménez, Luis Garay y Compañía, Gabily Anadón, Reinaldo Ribeiro, Grupo C'est tout, Pablo Maritano, Oduduwá, Emanuel Ludueña (in Argentina), Alma Soderberg, Roger Sala Reyner, Rodrigo Sobarzo, SNDO, Karnatic Lab, The Movement Network, Nederlands Fluit Orkest, Noha Ramadan, Anat Yaffe, Emma Wilson, Axyz Ensemble, Tomislav Feller, JiHae Ko, Doron Hirsch and Marijke Eliasberg (in The Netherlands).

I also authored an architectural lighting design project for the City of Pigüé (Buenos Aires, Argentina). I designed the lighting for the Monument to Clement Cabanettes, for the Monument to the 1st Argentinean Conscription, for the facade of the City Hall and for the facade of the Tourist Office. The project was presented by the end of 2004 but finally realized in the first semester of 2007.