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Kimie Nakano - set and costume design CV  

- from 2010  to 2023 ( Date is premier date )

 

Mural Studies ( dance ) – costume design , choreographyer Dam Van Huynh, Rich Mix 2010

Vertical Road  ( dance ) – set and costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , Curve 2010

Timeless ( dance ), costume design , choreographer Aditi Mangaldas Delhi , 2010 

Now is ( dance ) – costume design , choreographer Aditi Mangaldas Delhi , 2010 

The Mutard Seed ( dance ) – costume design , choreographer Miguel Altunaga , Rambert Dance Company , ROH Linbury Studio, 2010

 

Gnosis ( dance ) – costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , 2011 

Premier plus  Carlos Acosta ( ballet ) – costume design , choreographer Will Tuckett,  Coliseum , the 29th July 2011

La Nuit Du Train de la Voie Lacteé ( play )– set and costume design , director Oriza Hirata, Theatre de Sartouville et des Yvelines – CDN, 2011

 

The Little Prince  (Ballet )– set and costume design , choreographer Didy Veldman, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal , Place des Arts Montréal, 2012

Vertical Road  ( dance ) – set and costume design , choreographer Akram Khan NSCD Leeds,  The Riley Theatre , The 25TH 2012

 

Within ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Aditi Mangaldas , Delhi, September 2013 

A thousand shepherds ( dance )– costume design , choreographer José Agudo, ACE , Birmingham , November 2013

iTMOi ( dance ) –costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , MC2 Grenoble, the 14th May 2013

 

Carmen ( Ballet ) – set and costume design , choreographer Didy Veldman , Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet , June 2014

The Rashomon Effect  ( dance ), Vertical Road ( dance )– set and costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , National Youth dance Company , Sadler’s Wells , the 16th April 2014

Vertical Road  ( dance ) – set and costume design , choreographer Akram Khan National School of Dance Athens, the 26th October 2014

Kaash ( dance ) – costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , MC2 , the 12th December  2014

Shadow of Memory Kwibuka , 20th  Rwanda commemoration ceremony of the Genocide , Stade Amahoro, the 7thApril 2014

DUST ( ballet )– costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , English National Ballet , Barbican Centre , the 20thMarch 2014 

Torobaka ( dance ) – costume design , choreographer Akram Kahn , MC2 Grenoble , the 2nd June 2014

Tokaido Road ( opera )- set and costume design ,director Caroline Clegg, Milton Court Studio, the 6th August 2014

 

Technê ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Akram Khan ,Sadler’s Wells , the 31st march 2015

Adam Zero , 4 seasons ( ballet )– set and costume design , choreographer Sergei Vanaev, Stadt Theater Bremerhaven, the 11th April 2015

Tristan und Isolde ( opera ) – set and costume design , director Carmen Jakobi Longborough Festival Opera , the 28thMay 2015

The 3 Dancers ( dance )– set and costume design , choreographer Didy Veldman, Ballet Rambert LTD , Theatre Royal Plymouth , the 21st September 2015 

Moon Opera ( dance )  – costume design, choreographer Yabin Wang , Yabin Dance, October 2015

Fall ( ballet )– costume design , choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui , Ballet Vlaanderen , Ghent Opera , the 22ndOctober 2015 

A Thousand Shepherds - costume design , choreographer , José Agudo , Cape Dance Company, Artscape , Cape Town, ZA, March 2016

360° ( dance )- set and costume design , choreographer Didy Veldman,  Luzerner Theater , the 24th March 2016

M - Dao ( ballet ) – set and costume design , choreographer Yabin Wang, English National Ballet , Sadler’s Wells , the 12th April 2016

Qutb ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sadlers Wells, the 27th June 2016 

Inter_rupted  ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Aditi Mangaldas, September 2016, Mumbai

Vertical Road  ( dance ) – set and costume design , choreographer Akram Khan National School of Dance Athens , 2016 

TEN ( dance )– set and costume design , choreographer José Agudo, ACE , The Place, November 2016

The Happiness project ( dance ) – set and costume design , choreographer Didy Veldman, Umanoove , Danceeast , the 4th November 2016

 

iTMOi  ( dance )- costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Camöes Teatre , the 23rd February 2017

Vertical Road ( dance )– set and costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , The Royal Danish Theatre , the 10thMarch 2017

Kaash ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Akram Khan  Ballet Vlaanderen , Ghent Opera , the 18th March 2017

Silk Road  - costume design , choreographer Jose Augo,  Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio , the 14th April 2017

Tristan und Isolde ( opera ) , set and costume design , director Carmen Jakobi Longborough Festival Opera , the 8thJune 2017

The Little Mermaid ( ballet ), set design , choreographer David Nixon OBE, Northern Ballet , the 21st September 2017

 

Macbeth ( Film ), costume design , director Kit Monkman , GSP , 2018

The Return of Ulysses ( opera ) – costume design , director John Fulljames, Royal Opera House , Round House , the 10th January 2018

XENOS ( dance ) – costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , Onassis Cultural Centre Athens , the 21st February 2018

Xen (film )– costume design , choreographer Akram Khan, Illumination , Sadler’s Wells, the 23rd May 2018 

Kaash ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Akram Khan, Institut del teatro Dansa , Barcelona , the 30th July 2018

Mixed Programme ( ballet ), - set and costume design , Northern Ballets , The Shape of Sound , choreographer Kenneth Tindall, Kingdom of Back , choreographer Morgann Runacre- Temple, Manela…, choreographer Mlindi Kulashe, Leeds Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre , the 12th September 2018

The 3 dancers ( dance )– set and costume design , choreographer Didy Veldman, Introdans, Stadstheater Arnhem , the 14thSeptember 2018 

Alfhild Agrells Arv ( dance )– costume design , Norrdans ,Glansvit , choreography José Agudo, Svart Invärtes choreography Mari Carraco , Svart Invärtes choreography Peter Svenzon, Härnösands teater , the 18th October 2018

Boy Breaking Glass ( dance )– costume design ,choreographer Alesandra Seutin, Sadler’s Wells , the 11th October 2018

 

Kaash ( dance )– costume design , choreographer Akram Khan , Stuttgart Ballett, Stuttgart Operahouse, the 28th June 2019

Fruen fra havet / The Lady from the Sea  ( play )– costume design , director Birgit Amlalie Nillsen , Kilden teater, Fjæreheia , the 10th July 2019

Outwitting the Devil ( dance )– costume design , choreography Akram Khan , Stuttgart  , Avignon Festival July 2019

Qutb ( dance )- costume design , choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, introdans , the 27th September 2019

Fall ( ballet ) – costume design , choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Le Grand Théâtre de Genéve the 10thNovember 2019

Kaash – Costume Design , Choreographer Akram Khan , Introdans 21st Septemver 2020

Kaash – Costume Design , Choreographer Akram Khan , The Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre , 10th March 2021

Rough Girls – Costume Design , Director Kimberley Sykes , Set Designer Ciaran Bagnall, Lyric Theatre Belfast 8th September 2021 

 

Dust – Costume design, Choreographer Akram Khan , Theater Dortmund , 12th February , 2022

FALL – Costume design , Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui , National Ballet of Portugal 

23rd March , 2022

FALL – Costume design , Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui , Grand Theatre Geneva , 1st June 2022 

Vertical Road – NSCD 2022 May

Turandot – Costume Design , Director Daniel Kramer , Scenographie  TeamLab , Grand Theatre Geneva , 20th June 2022

Dust – Costume design , Choreographer Akram Khan , Finish National Opera and Ballet 

30th September 2022 

My Neighbour Totoro - Costume Design ,Director Phelim McDermott, Royal Shakespeare Company at Barbican Theatre 

8 October 2022

Turandot - Costume Design , Director Daniel Kramer , Scenographie TeamLab, Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre, 23 February 2023

Death Note - Costume Design, Music by Frank Wildhorn, Director Nick Winston, 21st August 2023

Vertical Road - Set and Costume Design -Choreographer Akram Khan , Boston Ballet 5th October 2023 

Fall - Costume Design - Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui , Introdans 22nd September 2023 

Kaash - Costume Design -Choreographer Akram Khan ,  Introdans 22nd September 2023

My Neighbour Totoro - Costume Design , Director Phelim McDermott , RSC , Barbican Centre  21st November 2023 

Your Lie in April - Costume Designer - Music by Frank Wildhorn , Director Nick Winston, 8th April 2024

AWARDS

In 2023 Kimie won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for My Neighbour Totoro for the RSC at the Barbican 

Exhibitio

2001, 2005, 2011, 2015 SBTD exhibition

2001  “Yabu no Naka “ at Theatre Museum , selected by SBTD

2011 “ Vertical Road “ at V&A , selected by SBTD

2015 “ iTMOi “ at Prague Quadrennial World theatre design and at V&A , selected by SBTD

 

Published 

“Textiles in the performing arts: designing costumes for Akram Khan Company “

by Kimie Nakano / edited by Ruth Little , Jamini , the 6th December 2015

 

SBTD Exhibition catalogue , 2001, 2005, 2011, 2015

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