Presenters

Anat Mesner

An Israeli scenographer and Costume Designer, a graduate of The Central School of Art & Design, London 1978. Pamela Howard's student.

Returned to Israel and has designed about 300 different shows (sets and/or costumes) of many kinds, costumes for feature films, and Art director for many T.V. productions.

Since 1991 has bees involved in all the Israeli participation in PQ and OISTAT, as a representative of The Society of Theatre Designers and curated the Israeli Exposition for PQ 2015 and 2019. A member of the costume sub-commission for 25 years.

Have been teaching theatre design for almost thirty years.

Maria Lucina Anonas-de Santos

Nina Anonas is currently a professor and chairperson of the Dance Program at the De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, in Manila. Her professional dance portfolio includes soloist and principal credits at Ballet Philippines, Manila Metropolis Ballet, and the Junge Ballett Compagnie; and featured artistic performances at Billie Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt. She holds a Postgraduate Degree in Educational Management and is considered an industry expert and practitioner in the field of dance. Nina has also authored the Benilde Dance Program's track on Applied Dance Studies.

Nina has published, “Let’s Learn Ballet!” a book for beginning ballet teachers and students, which comes at the heels of more than 20 years of teaching students of all levels at the École de Ballet Manille and the ESS Ballet Jeunesse. She is the only accredited examiner in the Far East for the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet, assessing affiliated schools in Asia and is also a Progressive Ballet Technique certified teacher. She heads the Philippine Dance Cup, the only nationwide dance competition, which aims to discover new talent and provide significant scholarships to deserving Filipino dancers.

Ma. Magdalena De Leon

Magdalena de Leon is currently the Associate Dean of the Arts and Culture Cluster of the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, Manila Philippines.

She Holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Human Resource Management; a Masters’ Degree in Theater Arts; and a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council fellowship grant focusing on Performing Arts Management.

Formerly chaired the dual programs of the Theater Arts and Production Design programs, including the Technical Theater program of Benilde, furthermore co–authoring and co-designing the Theater Arts program’s mandate and curriculum.

She led the Benilde team as Project Manager and Co-Curator to the 2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space Exhibition, a synergetic effort that led to winning the Imagination Award for Benilde and the Philippines.

Alain Zedrick Camiling

Alain Zedrick Camiling works across the academe, curatorial and managerial practice, and arts writing. He is currently the Chairperson of the Arts Management Program at the De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde where he co-authored its 2018 BA Arts Management curriculum. He also taught with the Fine Arts Program of the University of the Philippines Baguio in 2020.

He pioneered Bank of the Philippine Islands’ Arts Education Program in 2018 managing its art collection, museums in Cebu City and Zamboanga City, and curating a workshop series for publics, among others. He has been actively contributing texts on arts and culture for various platforms since 2017.

His research interests include arts education and management, curatorial articulations, and curriculum development. He was conference director for the recent 2021 Arts Management Undergraduate Conference, a first of its kind in the Philippines. He is currently working on a commissioned research project by the British Council on Arts and Culture Philanthropy in the Philippines with Geraldine Araneta and Lester Owen Go. He is an honorary lifetime member of the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society.

Cyril Lamy

SLA designers / Co-Founder & Creative Director
Architect - Scenographer

Cyril Lamy is the co-founder and creative director of SLA Designers, an awarded design agency merging Scenography, Lighting and Architecture, and offering innovative creative and technical services. Graduate architect and scenographer from France, he studied and practices internationally for twenty years, particularly in Asia where he established his studio and gather a multidisciplinary design team growing since 2016.

Cyril 's designs combines space, light and story, with the intention to offer striking experiences to visitors and audience. In his early practice, he collaborates and oversees thrilling operations, which must be mentioned urban operations in France, an art foundation in Thailand, the Chaplin's World Museum in Switzerland, bespoken theater in China, and series of projects in entertainment, cultural and art.

Since launching his own studio in Vietnam, Cyril has strived to transform his passion into meaningful missions, with the wish to raised cities nightlife quality and create unique spaces for culture and art. After six years of operation and over seventy projects in Vietnam, he elevated his studio to a leading role in the region, collaborating with major developers and governments, and achieved international recognition with several trophies, publications, and contributions as a speaker.

Today Cyril expands his collaborations worldwide for further exciting projects, while keeping raising awareness for durable practice of design in SE-Asia, based on his fundamental values of integrity, diversity, and sustainability.

Contact: https://linktr.ee/Cyril.lamy

The Czech Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (ČOSDAT)

Amálie Bulandrová is a PhD candidate at the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University and an undergraduate student at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). As an art and theatre theoretician she participates in various projects regarding the contemporary scenography.

Anna Chrtková studied scenography at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and the Interactive Media Theory at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno. Now she works as an independent scenographer, costume designer, curator and artist across the country.

As curators, Amálie Bulandrová and Anna Chrtková prepared together with the scenographer Jan Matýsek this year´s volume of the regular exhibition Salon of Czech Scenography which was held this June in Brno (CZ) with a subtitle: Relationships Stock Scenery Utopia.

Peter McKinnon

Peter McKinnon has been a lighting designer, technical director, production manager, general manger, producer, author and educator for some 45 years. He is currently working on what may be his last book Sailors and Stagehands, to be launched at WSD '22 in Calgary.

Jerôme Maeckelbergh

Born on 1 February 1945, Jerôme Maeckelbergh studied Fine Arts (painting and sculpture), and drunk too much with actor students, who later became directors. This resulted in a non planned scenographer career with a first production in 1974. He has designed more than 50 productions, with work selected for the PQ‘83 and ‘87 and for Novi Sad in ’84. He designed for drama and musicals as free-lancer, combining this with designing and making special props, masks and sculptures for countless other productions.

Thanks to his contacts in OISTAT, he learned that the Municipality of Antwerp was on its way to destroy in silence the heritage theatre machinery in the “Bourla” theatre, the last large municipal theatre in Europe with this kind of machinery (1834 by Phylastre and Cambon), and all still in good condition. This is an atrocity in sake of modernization. To protest this, Jerome co-organized with Peter McKinnon the international conference “Wood and Canvas” in June 2014, with the support of the Canadian York University, OISTAT and many donators worldwide. As result of this conference, PERSPECTIV nominated the Bourla heritage theatre machinery to be included in the “7 most endangered sites in Europe”. Europa Nostra “awarded” it in its final list of 2014, which ultimately led to a revision of the renovation plans, keeping the machinery on site.

This controverse was also Jerome’s trigger to promote the unexpected possibilities of heritage theatre technology, turning out into the project “Back to the Future of Heritage Theatre Technology”, a 5-day workshop touring in Europe, for reintroducing the knowledge of the versatile possibilities of this technology, to be used in contemporary theatre productions. The realization of contemporary alternatives for this technology are low-budget, and the solutions are very sustainable: working by manual power and where needed supported by counterweight.

Rosane Muniz

Brazilian artist, journalist, researcher and curator, holds a Master and a PhD in Scenic Arts/Theater Theory and Practice at the University of Sao Paolo (USP). Author and organizer of numeral costume books, since her first publication Vestindo os nus - o figurino em cena (Dressing the Naked - The Costume on Stage, Ed. Senac, 2004), which is about the work of the contemporary Brazilian costume designers and their creative methods. Currently she is Invited Professor and Tutor at several courses in different universities: Set and Costume Design (FEBASP), Art Direction (SENAC), Costume Design (SP Escola de Teatro) and Performance Design (UFRGS). She also lectures and teaches as special guest at renowned national and international institutions. OISTAT member since 2007, she is Vice-Head for Projects at Performance Design Commission/Costume Design for the second round (2015-2023). She was the Brazilian co-curator for the Extreme Costumes exhibition at PQ’11; Responsible Researcher of the Brazilian National Exhibition at PQ’11 (Golden Triga); Editor of the Brazilian Exhibition Catalogues (PQ’11 and PQ’15); Creator and Curator of E-Scapes 2014 (Brazil); Co-Curator of the Brazilian National Exhibition at PQ’15. She organized the First Brazilian Costume Symposium - SIEP (September 2012, Rio de Janeiro).

Dinesh Yadav

Dinesh Yadav is Assistant professor of Lighting Design and Technical Director at the Theatre and Dance, University of Wisconsin- Green Bay, WI USA. Before joining UWGB he has taught Performance Design and Lighting Design at Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, India. He is a visiting faculty and artist of scenography at National School of Drama, India. He has independently designed over fifty productions and directed over twenty performances. His work has exhibited at Prague Quadrennial, World Stage Design and his performances has been showcased at; Theatre Olympic, WOMAD Festival, Sydney Festival, Melbourne Arts Festival, White Light Festival, Holland Festival, Bharat Rang Mahotsav and many more. Doctorated in Theatre and Chemistry, Dr. Yadav has written over thirty scholarly articles, essays and research papers and presented in conferences such as IFTR, Crossroads, ICLAS and others.

Guillem Aloy and Antoni Ramon

Guillem Aloy and Antoni Ramon, are theoretical researchers working in the fields of Scenography, Theatre, Architecture and the City and involved at the ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture.

Antoni Ramon Graells is a Ph.D. architect from the ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture where he is a full Professor. From 2012 to 2017, Director of the Department of Theory and History of Architecture. Coordinator of the SGR Research Group, ACM Critical Analysis of Modernity, Architecture and City. His areas of expertise are the Theory of Architecture and Theatrical Architecture. Precisely in relation to this last domain, he directs the Observatory of Scenic Spaces - Observatory of Theaters in Risk.

Full CV: https://futur.upc.edu/178110


Guillem Aloy Bibiloni is an architect and scholar at the Barcelona School of Architecture UPC-ETSAB where he is a PhD candidate in Theory and History of Architecture and member of the Observatory of Scenic Spaces. Recently he has been a visiting fellow at the ENSA Paris-Malaquais and at the Beuth Hochschule in Berlin in 2019. He has received the City of Palma’s Research Award 2017 and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans’ Fellowship 2018. His academic interests build on the dual nature of his experience and explore the relation between architecture and theatre.

Simona Rybáková

Czech costume designer and independent researcher born in Prague 1963.

She studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, while also trained at the University of Applied Arts in Helsinki, Finland and at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA.

She was the Czech representative in OISTAT Executive Committee (1997-2007), and is currently head of Performance Design Commission / Costume. She is a member of the European Film Academy and Czech Film and Television Academy as well and member of Critical Costume Steering group active in international costume projects.

She won the PQ99 Golden Triga as a commissioner (with Šimon Caban) of the Czech national exhibition, the Swarovski Award, Czech Annual film award for the best costume and outstanding work for theatre reflect the award for costume design in World stage design Cardiff 2013 and Taipei 2017. In 2011 she was the curator of the Extreme Costumes exhibition at PQ11.

Thanks to the wide scope of her education and the experiences from her own dance and theatre group Ballet Unit Cramp, she had a possibility to work in many different fields of costume and fashion design, where she combined a wide range of influences. Today she creates costumes for theatre, television, film, dance, concerts, site specific projects and special events.

She is working, lecturing and exhibiting internationally.


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