Loes Schakenbos - biography | THE NATIONAL MORAVIAN

Loes Schakenbos is exploring many different ways to express her creativity, she started travelling around the world as stage manager for Nederlands Dans Theater 1 and 3 between 1996 and 2004. During a 2 year break from theater she discovered the beauty of the underwater world, but the theater kept pulling her. After working at Korzo Theater in The Hague as a tour technician and light designer, Loes has started her own business involving light design and technical production for modern dance productions.

Since then, she has been working with choreographer such as Jiří Kylián / Kylian Productions, Jiří Pokorny, André Gingras, Antonin Rioche, Marina Mascarell, Alida Dors and Nanine Linning.

The last years she has been exploring light installations and photography as another way to express her creativity. Of course never forgetting and always trying to use her skills in painting with light. During the pandemic she took the opportunity to learn new skills and studied digital creation.

The light is such an important part of our daily life; it is the rhythm of our days, where the mood of people fluctuates with the amount of sun they can feel on their skin. Being a light designer, i am basically trying to re-create the beauty that is shown to us everyday.

… for instance this amazing moment when the clouds create an opening in the sky to let the beams off the sun radiate through or the light flickering from fish to fish as they group themselves just underneath the surface of the ocean.

Photo: Jiří Kylián

LIGHTDESIGN

2021 Glitter The Woman Destroyed	Antonin Rioche Courtney May Robertson Dansateliers	Korzo Productions Nizozemsko Rotterdam & Artist Space ICK
2019 Installation ‘Facing” First Sign of Light The Little Great People Day>without<Night	Loes Schakenbos Antonin Rioche Jiří Pokorný Jiří Pokorný	HUBS festival Korzo Productions Nizozemsko Korzo Productions Nizozemsko Ballet Basel Švýcarsko
2018 Nous Engel	Jiří Pokorný Kim en Marta	National Theater Mannheim Německo Kim Jomi Fischer & Marta, Alstadaeter Nizozemsko/Norsko
2017 Three Times Rebel Sunday Neurosis Wolkenwanderer	Marina Mascarell Jiří Pokorný Wubkje Kuindersma	Korzo Productions - Mercat de les flors Korzo Productions - Tanec Praha Luxembourg
2016 Free Fallexposition La Diablebatsafemme… Humpback Runner Installation“Corner”	Jiří Kylián Marina Mascarell Jiří Pokorný Loes Schakenbos	Kylian Productions Nizozemsko Ballet de l’Opera de Lyon Francie Nederlands DansTheater 2 Nizozemsko Fieldsof Wonder
2015 Body & Language Black Painting Mongrel Like a Large Anima Honey Dew Hunt Hieronymus B	Lukáš Timulák Nanine Linning Marina Mascarell Marina Mascarell Jiří Pokorný Ninine Linning	Kevin O'Day Ballett Nizozemsko Německo Gauthier Dance Německo Göteborg Operans Dans Kompanie Švédsko Korzo Productions Nizozemsko Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Nizozemsko Heidelberg Dance Compagny Německo
2014 Oogst The Sway of her Hips Trivial Friend Endless	Alida Dors Marina Mascarell Jiří Pokorný Nanine Linning	Backbone Connects Nizozemsko Skanes Dansteater Švédsko Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Nizozemsko Heidelberg Dance Compagny Německo
2013 East Shadow Doze ZERO	Jiří Kylián Jiří Pokorný Nanine Linning	Kylian Productions Nizozemsko Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Nizozemsko Heidelberg Dance Compagny Německo
2012 Codex Gloomy Triptych on Pink The Sweet Art of Bruising Voice Over	Andre Gingras Natalia Horečná Andre Gingras Nanine Linning	Dance Works RotterdamNizozemsko Chemnitz Dance Compagny Německo Dance Works RotterdamNizozemsko Osnabruck Dance Compagny Německo
2011 Anonymous Pan Complex Requiem Zwaailicht Brigade	Jiří Kylián Moving Theatre Nanine Linning Jakkoo Toivoonen	Kylian Productions / Korzo Productions Nizozemsko Moving Theatre Německo Osnabruck Dance Compagny Německo Meekers Nizozemsko