Leigh Sachwitz - Video Design
Temporary architecture, club visuals, film trailers, stage installations, event designs‚ ‘Poetry in Motion' - Leigh Sachwitz‘s life is full of movement, cultural tightrope walking, and dynamic pictures. Born in Scotland, Leigh Sachwitz has made her home in Berlin since the early 90s, where she followed up her studies in architecture by staging fervid, stage-ready performances for international clients. With her agency for visual design and motion graphics, flora&faunavisions, Leigh Sachwitz develops projects that combine the underground club-scene and high culture, commerce and art, always with the pretense of creating a motion-design that is as suitable to each new situation as it is visually innovative.
In recent years, Leigh Sachwitz has worked for many renowned opera and theatre companies around the globe, such as the San Fransisco Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the English National Opera, and the Berliner Festspiele.
She works on many of her stagings in collaboration with the well-known Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng; the two worked together, for example, on the video production for the operas Mercury Light World, The Coronation of Poppea, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Verdi's La Traviata, which was performed in 2009 in that year's European cultural capital, Vilnius. They are currently working on the operas White Snake, a modern adaptation of a Chinese legend set to premiere in October in Hong Kong, and Achterbahn, a co-production of the Bregenzer Festspiele and London's Royal Opera House, which received its world premiere in Bregenz in 2011 and which will be UK-premiered at the ROH in March 2012.
Leigh Sachwitz curated MusicART Galaxy with the Berlin Philharmonic, part of the orchestra's education project Zukunft@BPhil. In 2010, she produced visuals for a Kronos Quartet tour of the critically acclaimed production A Chinese Home.
She has worked on multiple projects with the German-English performance company Gob Squad and has accompanied them on their recent tour of the United States. She has also collaborated on performances with Meg Stuart (Damaged Goods) in Moscow and Martin Butler (The Liminal Institute) in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Leigh Sachwitz fills the few remaining open spaces in her diary with teaching positions in Berlin, which provide the goal-oriented designer with an academic counterbalance to her practical work.
www.florafaunavisions.de
In recent years, Leigh Sachwitz has worked for many renowned opera and theatre companies around the globe, such as the San Fransisco Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the English National Opera, and the Berliner Festspiele.
She works on many of her stagings in collaboration with the well-known Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng; the two worked together, for example, on the video production for the operas Mercury Light World, The Coronation of Poppea, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Verdi's La Traviata, which was performed in 2009 in that year's European cultural capital, Vilnius. They are currently working on the operas White Snake, a modern adaptation of a Chinese legend set to premiere in October in Hong Kong, and Achterbahn, a co-production of the Bregenzer Festspiele and London's Royal Opera House, which received its world premiere in Bregenz in 2011 and which will be UK-premiered at the ROH in March 2012.
Leigh Sachwitz curated MusicART Galaxy with the Berlin Philharmonic, part of the orchestra's education project Zukunft@BPhil. In 2010, she produced visuals for a Kronos Quartet tour of the critically acclaimed production A Chinese Home.
She has worked on multiple projects with the German-English performance company Gob Squad and has accompanied them on their recent tour of the United States. She has also collaborated on performances with Meg Stuart (Damaged Goods) in Moscow and Martin Butler (The Liminal Institute) in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Leigh Sachwitz fills the few remaining open spaces in her diary with teaching positions in Berlin, which provide the goal-oriented designer with an academic counterbalance to her practical work.
www.florafaunavisions.de
General Management for Stage Design
Photo: Kay Itting