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International Award winning Lighting Designer Jesper Garde Kongshaug






Nye forestillinger på Aveny-X

Følg med i de mange opslag fra nye forestillinger - turne i Danmerk og turne i Grønland !

https://nextzonemoves.dk/


Flammenwerfer på Det Kongelige Teater

Kæmpe succes med Flammenwerfer for
Hotel Pro Forma



https://kglteater.dk/det- sker/sason-20242025/ekste rn-arrangor/flammenwerfer






Drot og Maqrsk på Det Kongelige Teater 2024

Vidunderlig 2024 opsætning og succes med vores nye opsætnning af Heises nationale opera

https://kglteater.dk/det- sker/sason-20232024/opera /drot-og-marsk


Akram Khan Dance Company U.K.

Akram Khan Dance Company:

"Vertical Road" - lighting design


World tour 2010-2012.
Photographer: Richard Haughton


See video trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=vfflMh2BBqo






Operation ORFEO by Hotel Proforma

Final re-opening in Aarhus on February 11,2021 and in Royal Playhouse in Copenhagen June 2-5, 2021

On WORLD tour for more than 10 years, being the second most performed Danish Opera. Performed in Sydney Opera House, BAM-New York and all of Europe and Asia.

See US interview about the lighting design in link (no photos):
https://www.livedesignonl ine.com/otherworldly-ligh t

Se video link:

https://vimeo.com/4633616 71


Mozart - "Idomeneo" - lighting design

Restaged in Tel Aviv Opera, 2020.

Christoph Eschenbach | Dirigent
Kasper Holten | Regie
Mia Stensgaard | Buhne
Anja Vang Kragh | Kostume
Jesper Kongshaug | Licht und Video
Signe Fabricius | Bewegungsregie
Adrian Mourby | Dramaturgie
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra


Streamed in HD worldwide on Staatsoper TV-network on October 14.

https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=XYdSEYkgubc&featur e=youtu.be






Meistersinger by Wagner in Covent Garden - London

This performance opened in March 2017 in London..
Has been restaged with new lighting in Beijing, China and in Melbourne, Australia. What a fantastic journey.

https://youtu.be/SCKsMnlx ISY


Kæmpe succes med BLIXEN ballet på Operaen

The Royal Ballet - "Blixen" on the Opera Stage

Original performance trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=1B_cubzTokA


2022 trailer:

https://kglteater.dk/det- sker/sason-20222023/balle t/blixen?section=44997






Björk - Vespertine

Hotel Pro Forma production in Mannheim re-opened Oct 2020.


About:
https://www.nationaltheat er-mannheim.de/de/oper/st ueck_details.php?SID=2901

Reviews:
https://www.hotelproforma .dk/vespertine-reviews/

Se video trailer:

https://youtu.be/vSUzOzn7 MSY


Next Zone dance productions on tour

Lighting Design for NEXT ZONE dance productions:
http://nextzonemoves.dk/i ndex.php?id=14

Se artikel om turne til Frankrig under COVID19:
https://iscene.dk/2020/10 /22/koreograf-lene-boel/< br />
Link til turne:
https://www.turneteater.d k/produktion/global-souls /


Check video:


https://youtu.be/bS8co81 pDo0






CELESTE performance - Copenhagen Contemporary

"Det er lysdesigneren Jesper Kongshaugs stemningsdefinerende og kontrollerede mørke, der holder lyset tilbage med samme stringente beherskelse som Ea Verdoners sanselige koreografi i krateret, hvor solodanser Olivia Riviere umærkeligt bevæger sit publikum med sin horisontale dans".

http://sceneblog.dk/celes te-performance-copenhagen -contemporary/


AMDUAT at Christiania !

This stunning and award winning performance is restaged in 10 days of June 2023

See more about:
https://www.hotelproforma .dk/project/amduat-2023/< br />
(limited tickets left)


See trailer:

https://vimeo.com/5693509 27






John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Installation was commissioned by the Kennedy Center for Nordic Cool Festival.
Jesper Kongshaug recreates the effect of the Northern Lights on all four sides of the Kennedy Center facade.
https://imageengineering. com/portfolio/nordic-cool /

Hardware and maintenance supplied by imageengineering.com/

Washington Post front page article:
https://www.facebook.com/ photo.php?fbid=1015145715 7477417&l=d40ab13b97

It is featured twice in all episodes of
House of Cards season 2 during the pre-roll.

Live link below:

https://vimeo.com/6722376 5


Lyset over Skagen

Jesper Kongshaug er aktuel med musicalen "Lyset over Skagen", som har turneret landet rundt.

Til denne musical skabte Jesper Kongshaug scenografi og lysdesign.

Set design and lighting design for extensive musical tour: "The Lights of Skagen". Opening 2014 re-staged 2019.

https://youtu.be/WT5aQjlY TrI






TOSCA by Puccini - ZOOM + for større side og klik

Stage Director is Peter Langdal
Set Design by Karin Betz

"TOSCA" at Royal Danish Opera.

5th season running

http://www.kglteater.dk


Kosmos+ for Hotel Pro Forma

- a Big-Bang Family Performance about the Wonders of the Universe !





See youtube link below and also
https://www.hotelproforma .dk/project/cosmos/

https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=nBnf35y5nJc#t=37






War Sum Up - Music, Manga , Machines

Hotel Pro Forma production.

REUMERT 2012 award winner for best set design.
By Kirsten Dehlholm and Willie Flint and Jesper Kongshaug.
Costumes by Henrik Vibskov

Performances at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York
Novenber 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=NlwSJ1CEDAY


PARSIFAL - Poznan, Poland

Wagners Parsifal

Stage Direction: Kirsten Dehlholm
Choreograph: Jon R. Skulberg
Arkitekt: David Zahle
Videoprojections: Amanda Szabo
Costumes: Henrik Vibskov

https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=zqEoIKSvVgI






Den Uendelige Historie

Halogaland Teater i Tromsø, Norge i regi af Erlend Samnøen

http://www.ht.tr.no/


Koncert turne med komponist Borup-Jørgensens musik

Se artikel om Axel Borup-Jørgensen.
http://www.information.dk /317988


Credits:
https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=dDR7EGGUBMs

https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=OnhCYLv-l7g






Tristan und Isolde at Helsinki National Opera

Staged by Elisabeth Linton and in set design by Steffgen Aarfing and costume design by Marie Idali.

http://www.operanews.com/ Opera_News_Magazine/2013/ 9/Reviews/HELSINKI__Trist an_und_Isolde.html


Stage-productions performing worldwide 2021:

"Karen Blixen" - Royal Danish Ballet
"Vespertine" by Bjørk in Mannheim Opera.
"Lohengrin" by Wagner - Deutsche Oper Berlin
"Operation Orfeo" - Hotel Pro Forma.
"Idomeneo" by Mozart, in Wiener Staatsoper and Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv.
"Lohengrin" in Novaya Opera, Moscow

Download performance and touring details:

http://www.jesperkongshau g.com/downloads.php






Henrik Vibskov event på Glyptoteket

Copenhagen Light Festival 2019

PLEASE ANALYSE MOISTURIZE VOLUMIZE ME
http://henrikvibskov.com/ index.php?/news/news/

http://copenhagenlightfes tival.org/


Kari Bremnes rock-teater turne i Norge

Turne med lys og video-pixel-mapping for bandet omkring Kari Bremnes i 19 byer i Norge og for Halogaland Teater i Tromsø.


"Så var det lyset...Fargevekslingene, vingeslagene, assosiasjonene gjennom det lyset med alt vi er og alt vi har."Nordlys.

2 month Rock tour in Norway for Kari Bremnes band.

http://www.nrk.no/nordnyt t/_-fantastisk-og-suveren -1.12167276






Lohengrin i Moskva - Lohengrin in Moskow

Wagner: Lohengrin Opera by Wagner staged in Moskow at Novaya Opera in 2008, still performing

Lohengrin Opera opsat i 2008 og stadig i 2022 repertoire i Moskva.



https://novayaopera.ru/en /afisha-i-bilety/


Miss Saigon in Malmø, Sweden

Lighting design for new production of Miss Saigon:

Set design Martin Chocholousek
Sounddesign Nick Lidster for Autograph
Costume design Annsofi Nyberg
Choreografi Roger Lybeck
Stage directing Ronny Danielsson



https://www.malmoopera.se /forestallningar/miss-sai gon-0






Lohengrin by Wagner in Deutsche Oper

New Lohengrin production in Berlin opened April 15., 2012. It is still running in repertoire. See link for photos and video below:

https://deutscheoperberli n.de/de_DE/calendar/lohen grin.16394647


RITUAL - Next Zone

Award nominated break dance performance, with inuit theme by choreographer LENE BOEL.

"Cinematic Moves 1+2", "Shaman", "Ritual" og "Berserk" international touring to Canada, Russia, Iceland, Faroe Islands, and several times to Greenland.

http://www.nextzonemoves. dk/index.php?id=12






Verdi: Falstaff at the Opera

Royal Danish Opera :
Verdis: Falstaf

Stage Directing by Peter Langdal
Conductor Leo Hussain
Set: Ashley Martin-Davis
Costumes: Karin Betz


Video link:

https://kglteater.dk/medv irkende/j/jesper-kongshau g/


Latter i Mørket - HOTEL PRO FORMA

I co-produktion med Republique er Nabokovs roman nu teater

https://www.hotelproforma .dk/project/laughter-in-t he-dark/






Genoneva in New York

Genoneva by Robert Schumann in New York State, USA at Bard SummerScape.
Architect Frank Gehrys building in Hudson Valley.


http://www.fishercenter.b ard.edu/


HAMLET in Tromsø¸, Norway

Shakespeares HAMLET in new lighting design for Halogaland Theatre, also touring to Arkangelsk, RUSSIA.

Nina Wester instruerer på Halogaland Teater i Daniel Akerstrøms scenografi.

https://halogalandteater. no/produksjon/2011/hamlet






Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten

Winner of 2011 Reumert Award "Opera of the year".

Lysdesign til Kaspers afskedsforestilling på Operaen.

Lighting Design for Richard Strauss: "Frau ohne Schatten".

https://kglteater.dk/en/w hats-on/season-2015-2016/ opera/die-frau-ohne-schat ten/


The Copenhagen Ring - Det Kongelige Teater

Awarded for Best Opera-DVD in 2009 by Gramophone.

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) by Richard Wagner was staged from 2003 to 2006. JK did the lighting design for all four:
Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), Die Walkure (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried, Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

Niebelungens Ring spillede i foråret 2006 på det Kongelige Teater, Operaen på Holmen, Jesper Kongshaug skabte lys til de 4 operaer.

Reumert prisvinder

https://www.gramophone.co .uk/blogs/article/must-we -witness-denmark-s-great- operatic-decline






Ifigenia in Aulis

Royal Theatre Copenhagen: Directed by Kasper Holten and Steffen Aarfing was set designer and costumes by Marie iDali.

http://gregersdh.dk/?p=64 8


Tomorrow in a Year

Hotel Profroma opening on the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen - about Darwin- now on international tour to Germany, Sweden and Melbourne, Australia.
Photo: Laser and smoke with music by the Knife.
See hotelproforma.dk

http://theknife.net/






Figaros Bryllup -Mozart Opera- Theater an der Wien

LD for "Nozze de Figaro" and "Die Besessenen" staged in Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
Picture from Theater an der Wien.

"Die Besessenen" video link:

http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=0u8IDTPZKuM


The Koldinghus Fire - 200 years event

En historisk genskabelse af branden på Koldinghus for Mungo Park Bureau.
Se den arkitektoniske sektion for flere fotos.
Photo: Laura Stamer.

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https://jyllands-posten.d k/indland/ECE3935952/Kold inghus-sat-i-flammer-med- lys-og-r%C3%B8g/






Lightshow across Danmark

Photo of live Light Installation, on the opening event for digital Television, running in sync on seven locations in Denmark.

vnr.TV did Video News Release

Nordic Rentals did all logistics.
Falcon Alpha One - 7 kWatt Xenon scontrolled by GrandMA.

Event til markering af digitalisering af TV,
sponseret af Boxer TV, på 7 forskellige TV sendere fordelt i Danmark.




http://stiften.dk/aarhus/ lys-flaengede-aftenhimlen


Science festival - interactive laser lighting

Different graphic themes like "DISCOVER, INSPIRE, EXPLORE..."
projected on Carlsberg and controlled by text-message on your phone.
Laser installation in June 2014 commisioned by Danish Council for Research.

https://scienceinthecity. dk/






Eurovision skyLINE

Byrumsevent i anledning af Eurovision, bestilt af Kulturstyrelsen

Lighting event in the public space in Copenhagen - during Eurovision Song Contest - #JoinUs

https://www.facebook.com/ eurovisionskyline


London Soho Lighting Festival

Nordic DeLights - "Another me" by Jesper Kongshaug
January- February 2018

https://www.thisissoho.co .uk/news/nordic-delights- light-festival-soho/






London Soho Lighting Festival

Nordic DeLights - Another me by Jesper Kongshaug

See also
https://www.youtube.com/w atch?time_continue=37&v=a cjiYyXTTyc

https://www.thisissoho.co .uk/news/nordic-delights- light-festival-soho/


Hotel Pro Forma - Hans Christian Andersen

Hotel Pro Formas H.C. Andersen forestilling, JEG ER KUN SKINDØD, har vundet juryens specialpris på den 40. Beograd Internationale Teaterfestival (BITEF) i Serbien. BITEF Festivalen var det sidste stop efter gæstespil på Schauspiel Køln, Venedig Biennale, Berliner Festspiele og Christiansborg Ridehus i København.

Touring production about the life of H.C.Andersen

http://www.hotelproforma. dk/






ORDET by Kaj Munk - The Royal Theatre

Lyssætning til Skuespillet ORDET af Kaj Munk iscenesat af Lars Noren. Her ses Helle Hertz.

Forestillingen blev nomineret til årets Reumert-pris.

Se
www.kglteater.dk

Reumert prisnomineret i 2013 er Jeppe på Bjerget i JK lysdesign. http://www.aaretsreumert. dk/bikubens-h%C3%A6derspr is-2013

http://www.aaretsreumert. dk/%C3%A5rets-scenograf-2 012


UNICEF show

Set and lighting design for UNICEF stand-up comedy show, available on DVD.
All proceeds will be donated to UNICEF for children.

"Talegaver til børn" i Forum, dec. 2007.
Scenografi og lysdesign til TV/live show.

Indtægter fra DVD/TV er doneret til UNICEF.


http://www.fbi.dk






Den Blå Planet - new Danish Aquarium

The Blue Planet is new aquarium for Denmark won in competion together with architects 3XN.dk and Kvorning Design.
Opened March 2013.

Lighting Design for exhibit and indoor architecture and exterior.

WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL DISPLAY AWARD 2013

Den Blå Planet - nyt Danmarks Akvarium på Amager
Konkurrence vundet med arkitektfirma 3 x Nielsen og Kvorning Design.

Picture of foyer lighting by Adam Mørk

https://3xn.com/project/b lue-planet


Thor i Dyrehaven

"I guder" skriver Monna Dithmer i Politiken den 4. juni 2006 om forestillingen Thor og uddeler 5 ud af 6 stjerner. "Med overvældende billedkraft har dramaet om Odinsønnerne Thor og Balder samt alle de andre superhelte og skurke foldet sig ud i Christian Friedlænders fabulerende, nordisk-østerlandske scenelandskab med knaldrå¸de tempel-atige bygninger, tårnhøje obelisk platforme og gangbroer - tilsat Jesper Kongshaugs unikke fornemmelse for lys."

Outdoor staging of "THOR"

Foto: Per Morten Abrahamsen

http://www.kglteater.dk






Kalmar byteater

"Den som vandrar om natten" baseret på Marianne Fredrikssons roman med ur premiere i Kalmar

Fotograf Bertil Hertzberg

Opening in Kalmar, Sweden.


http://byteatern.se/


Den 3. tango med Vision 3. (GIF animation)

I marts 2005 viste forestillingen "Den 3. Tango" på Kaleidoskop en helt ny virkelighed ved hjælp af 3D-animationer i peppers-ghost. Ved hjælp af Jesper Kongshaugs lyssætning blev oplevelsen total.

https://www.grob.dk/






Don Carlos, Opera

Opera iscenesat af Kasper Bech Holten med Scenografi af Steffen Aarfing

Reumert prisnomineret

http://www.kglteater.dk


Hedda Gabler (GIF animation)

"...i Ibsens erotiske gletscherdrama Hedda Gabler i Jesper
Kongshaugs sugende underbevidsthedslys" skriver Anne Middelboe
Christensen i anmeldelsen i Information af Hedda på
Betty Nansen Teatret 7. marts 2006.

Gæstespil på Nationalteatret i Oslo.

Foto-animation af fotograf Laura Stamer

http://www.stamerskontor. dk/






Cunning Little Vixen

Pre-production for art opera tour project "Cunning Little Vixen" for producer Sarah Ford and
director Stephan Grøgler and
with begium artisk Arne Quinze (photo)

Photo from meeting in Quinze sculpture at Louisiana Museum.

Swiss opening in September, 2014.

http://arnequinze.com/


Ballet - Nutcracker at the Royal

Royal Danish Ballet - Nutcracker - choreographed by Kenneth Greve.

Nøddeknækkeren - Det Kongelige Teater, Gl. Scene, nyopsætning ved Kenneth Greve og Peter Langdal. Scenografi Karin Betz. Lysdesign Jesper Kongshaug.

http://www.teateranmeldel se.dk/DetKglTeater/Noddek naekkeren/Noddeknaekkeren .htm






Operation Orfeo, Hotel Pro Forma (GIF animation)

OPERAtion ORFEO by Hotel Proforma.
World Tour including Sydney Opera House and BAM Festival NYC. Directed by Kirsten Dehlholm and set design by Maja Ravn. See https://www.hotelproforma .dk/envira_gallery/operat ion-orfeo-1993/

VIDEO LINK (without laser effect):

http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=0djxO9WyJ4w


City Lights Event,

En gruppe studerende fra RUC tog initiativ til at Sortedams Dosseringen og Sankt Hans Gade fik lys og performance-kunst en week-end i januar.

Lighting event in Copenhagen 2009.
Lighting event in Elsinore, 2010.

http://ibyen.dk/gadeplan/ article625527.ece






SE09 at Glyptotek

7 scenarios of different lighting for dialog

Glyptoteket husede Snedkernes Efterårsudstilling 2009 i lys og indretning af Jesper Kongshaug.

7 forskellige lysscenarier viste skiftende kvaliteter i møbler og rum.


http://www.glyptoteket.co m/whats-on/calendar


Interview PDF in Danish

Interview for "Kristeligt Dagblad".

To download interview as .pdf goto "cv" and select the interview.

Fotograf: Malene Korsgaard Lauritsen

http://www.kristeligt-dag blad.dk/artikel/355222:Li v---Sjael--Paa-broen-mell em-skygge-og-lys






DESIGN OF COLORS FOR LEE FILTERS:

Download CV in CV/PDF section.

New colors for LEE filters: http://www.leefilters.com /lighting/designer-list.h tml

Lee 730 + LEE 765.

See specs for my LEE 730:

https://leefilters.com/li ghting/colour-details.htm l#730


ESTA member

The Entertainment Services & Technology Association (ESTA), is the trade association for the entertainment services and technology industry in North America. We are in the business of making our members better informed, better connected, safer, and more profitable. ESTA members include companies and organizations that provide products and services to the world of show business.

http://esta.org/






USITT member



Paper on lighting as art in the public space by Kongshaug in Fort Worth for the
54th Annual Conference & Stage Expo
March 26-29, 2014

http://www.usitt.org


Dansk Center for LYS medlem

Dansk Center for Lys (DCL) er et videncenter for lys og belysning, der blev stiftet i 1948 (under navnet Lysteknisk Selskab). Centrets formål er at udbrede kendskabet til god og hensigtsmæssig belysning.

Foredrag om LED på Lysets dag

http://www.centerforlys.d k/index2.php






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