Tread Softly
Music
"Death and the Maiden" String Quartet No 14 by Schubert
Costume design
Asalia Khadjé »
Lighting design
Yaron Abulafia »
Biographies
Asalia studied at the Princess Beatrix School for Fashion and Clothing, Institute Avantgarde and Couture Academy in The Netherlands. She worked at Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) from 1989 until 2005, working with renowned choreographers such as Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Mats Ek and Ohad Naharin.
In 1992 she started designing for several choreographers such as Martino Müller, Gideon Obarzanek and Johan Inger. At the same time she also designed for young and upcoming choreographers, giving them the opportunity to enhance their productions with professionally-designed costumes. She has designed for more than 90 productions.
In 2005 she started her own business concentrating on designing and making costumes for dance and theatre, collaborating with several companies and festivals. At The Holland Dance Festival in 2005, she met Henri Oguike and a partnership grew in which she designed costumes for Expression Lines, How I look, Little Red, Green in Blue, Touching All and All Around.
For the past twelve years, Yaron Abulafia has designed lighting for theatre and dance performances, installations, concerts and television shows internationally.
Now resident in The Netherlands, he is working towards a PhD at Rijks University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The research, which incorporates both theory and practice, deals with light in contemporary theatre and examines the poetics and meaning-making of light within the contemporary theatrical event. For one of his recent light designs in theatre (Peer Gynt, Romania, 2008) he has won the first prize of light design supported by PHILIPS.
He holds a Masters degree (MFA) in Scenography from the Frank Mohr Instituut in Groningen and BA in theatre studies (Design track) from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. His passion for light design developed after six years of painting and sculpture studies in Israel (also at Tel-Aviv museum for the arts); a visual influence which is often distinguished in the characteristics of his designs.