Sander Loonen Designer/Technical Producer
contact: Charlene Lim (agent)
After a 4 year apprenticeship at the Rotterdamse Schouwburg in the 1990's, Sander has developed as a true all-round technician and designer.
Equally versed in lighting, sound, video and staging he fills the gap between artistic ambitions and technical feasibility.
Working with international creative teams, in all aspects of live performance and installations, he has developed the ability to steer a production towards a fulfilling project.
He has designed and managed lighting, video, sound and staging for a great variety of artists and institutions like English National Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Irish National Opera, National Architectural Institute Netherlands, Swiss Pavilion Biennale 2019, Anish Kapoor, Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, LA Dance Project, Aakash Odedra, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, Yang Liping Company, Boy Blue, Sarah Moeremans, Emio Greco|PC, Aditi Mangaldas, Peter Sonneveld, Gregory Maqoma, Duckie, Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Serpentine Gallery, Productiehuis Rotterdam, Theatre de la Ville Paris, Improbable Productions and many others.
Since 2017 he is based in Rome.
PRODUCTIONS:
2023: Jephtha, dir Oliver Mears, Royal Opera House, London (Video Designer)
2023: Viktoria Mullova Ensemble, with Mathew Barley, Barbican London )Lighting Designer)
2023: Cuspidi, dir Valerio Leoni, Biennale Teatro (Lighting Designer)
2023: Biennale Architettura, Venice Biennale (Production Manager)
2023: Nine Songs, Feng Ling Productions, Alula Desert (Production Manager, Stage and Lighting Designer)
2022: Au Bord, dir. Valentino Villa, Rome Teatro Vascello (Set, Video, Lighting Designer)
2022: Il Ritorno (Monteverdi), dir. Simon Steen-Andersen, Venice, Biennale Musica (Lighting Designer)
2022: Venice Biennale Musica (Lighting Designer )
2022: Spoleto Festival, Dianne Reeves concert, Piazza Duomo (Lighting Designer)
2022: Kites, chor. Damien Jalet, Goteborg Ballet, (Video Designer)
2021: Paris Opera Gala, chor. Damien Jalet (Associate Lighting Designer), Tess Voelker (Lighting & Video Designer)
2021: Rigoletto, dir. Oliver Mears, Royal Opera House, London (Video Designer)
2021: Inferno, dir. P. Maccarinelli, Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto, (Video Designer and Associate Lighting Designer)
2020: Don Giovanni, dir. Joh Fulljames, Greek National Opera, Athens (Associate Lighting Designer)
2020: Handmaid’s Tale, dir. John Fulljames, Royal Danish opera (Associate Lighting Designer)
2020: Antigone & Tyresia, dir. Guy Cassiers, Toneelhuis Antwerp, (Lighting Designer)
2020: Venice Biennale Danza (Lighting Designer)
2019: Sleeping Beauty, chor. Jeroen Verbruggen Ballet Opera Leipzig (Video Producer)
2019: The Indian Queen, dir. Guy Cassiers, opera de Lille (Movie Lighting Designer)
2019 The Nutcracker and I Alexandra Dariescu (Technical Producer)
2019 Venice Biennale Musica Teatro Tese (Lighting and Video Designer)
2019 Under Siege World tour Yang Liping (Technical Producer)
2019 Venice Biennale danza college (Lighting Designer)
2019 Swiss Pavillon Venice Biennale (Show control Producer, programming & hardware)
2018 Amore Che Torni Negramaro Live Nation, Toprek rigging (Automation Programmer creation & tour)
2018 Rite of Spring chor. Yang Liping (Technical Producer, Video creation & Tour)
2018 Memento Mori re-staging (Associate Lighting Design)
2018 Portraits in Otherness @ Lilian Baylis London (Technical Producer, Associate Lighting Designer)
2018 Powder Her Face re-staging @ National opera Ireland(Associate Lighting Designer)
2018 Under Siege World tour Yang Liping (Technical Producer)
2017 The Nutcracker and I Alexandra Dariescu @ Guild Hall London (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2016 Under Siege by Yang Liping Dance Company World tour (Technical producer creation & tour)
2017 Bayadere TNL by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance @ Sadlers Wells London (Video designer, technical producer creation & tour)
2017 Memento Mori chor. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for Ballets de Montecarlo @ Opera Garnier (pixel mapping Designer/Set Technical Designer)
2017 Requiem chor. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for Opera Flanders (Set Designer)
2017 Material men @ Nottingham Lakeside (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2017 Bahr by Malta National Ballet @ La Valletta (Technical Manager)
2016 Under Siege by Yang Liping Dance Company @ Sadlers Wells London (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2016 Inter_rupted by Aditi Mangaldas (Technical Production creation & Tour)
2016 OUTLANDER by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance @ Venice Biennale (Set and Lighting designer, Technical Producer)
2016 Rising world tour by Aakash Odedra Company (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2016 Echoes & I Imagine World Tour by Aakash Odedra Company (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2016 Murmur & Inked World Tour by Aakash Odedra Company (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2015 Murmur 2.0 by Aakash Odedra Company @ The Place London (Technical Producer creation & tour)
2015 Echoes and I Imagine by Aakash Odedra Company @ Curve Theatre Leicester (Sound Designer, Technical Producer creation & tour)
2015 Tresspass by Shobana Jeyasingh & King’s College London (Video Designer)
2015 LADP Harbour me chor. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui @ Theatre du Chatelet, Paris (Set Designer)
2014 Rainy Days @ Philarmonie Luxembourg (Software Designer & Engineer, Video Designer)
2014 Dust for English National Ballet Lest We Forget @ barbican London (Set Designer)
2013 Venlo by Wunderbaum for Rotterdam Productie huis (Technical Director)
2013 Hurrya by Yeast Culture (Location Designer, Technical Producer)
2013 The Five by Boy Blue @ Barbican London (Set Designer)
2013 Lanka dir. Natalie Abrahami (Video, Lighting and Set Designer)
2013 iTMOi (Technical Producer) @ MC2 Grenoble
2012 Uncharted seas @ Edinburgh Festival (Lighting Design)
2011 Duckie Copyright christmas @ Barbican London (Video Design)
2011 DESH (Technical Realisation, Touring Production Manager)
2010 Gnosis by Akram Khan Company (Technical Production Manager)
2008 In-I by Akram Khan Company (Touring Stage Manager)
2008 Bahok by Akram Khan Company (Set design, Touring Production Manager)
2006 Sprookjes van Nu by Waterhuis (Technical Manager)
2005 de stem van tamar by Waterhuis (Technical Manager)
2004-2007 Emio Greco PC Company several productions (Touring Technician)
2004 Noodlot by Peter Sonneveld (Production Technician)
2004-2005 FLAOM by Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (Touring Stage Techncian)
2003 Elektra by Peter Sonneveld (Production Technician)
2000 zelfmoord van de meisjes by Peter Sonneveld (Set Sound and Lighting designer)
1998-2005 Geen Daden Maar Woorden literary festival (Lighting designer, Technical Production)
1998-2004 International film festival Rotterdam (Lighting Design)
1997-2004 In house Lighting Technician Rotterdamse Schouwburg