Video Artist — Projection & Scenography for the Stage
Video is an extension of the artist on stage and of the music — the projection of emotions and the inner states of a character.
Statement
“Video is an extension of the artist on stage and of the music. It embodies the projection of emotions and the internal states of the character, setting the scene for their journey.”
Anouar Brissel is a self-taught video artist whose work is shaped by drawing and music composition. He designs projected image and scenography for opera, ballet and concert stages across Europe and North America.
His work has been seen at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra de Lyon, the Dutch National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and the Maria Manetti Shrem Opera Festival in Napa Valley.
Selected Works
Projected image for Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, performed from memory by the Aurora Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
Conductor Nicholas Collon · Aurora Orchestra · Written & directed by Jane Mitchell & James Bonas · Lighting David Bishop
View projectProjected scenography for Pickett & Bonas’ ballet-thriller — guilt spreading across the walls like a stain.
Choreography & co-direction Helen Pickett · Direction James Bonas · Music Peter Salem · Set & costumes Luis F. Carvalho · Lighting Bonnie Beecher
View projectVideo-scenography for Strauss — the play-within-a-play folding between comedy and myth.
Conductor Svetoslav Borisov · Director James Bonas · Set & costumes Thibault Vancraenenbroeck · Dramaturgy Ulrike Schröder
View projectA video revival of the Cherkaoui–Jalet Boléro conceived with Marina Abramović — image as the breath of the body.
Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet · Concept Marina Abramović · Lighting Urs Schönebaum
View projectWorld-premiere projection design for Helen Pickett’s ballet after Flaubert — interior weather made visible.
Choreography Helen Pickett · Direction James Bonas & Helen Pickett · Animation Grégoire Pont
View projectVideo design for Dumais’ danced requiem — a farewell letter to the world written in moving light.
Choreography Dominique Dumais · Set & costumes Tatyana van Walsum · Lighting Bonnie Beecher
View projectThird season designing for the Napa Valley festival — Donizetti’s comedy in moving light.
Conductor Noah Lindquist · Director Jean-Romain Vesperini
View projectDonizetti under the Napa sky — projected image turning the open-air stage into shifting weather.
Conductor Gemma New · Director Jean-Romain Vesperini
View projectFirst season in Napa Valley — a fully 3D-built video scenography for Puccini’s one-act comedy.
Conductor Kent Nagano · Director Jean-Romain Vesperini · Fully 3D-built design
View projectA re-reading of Manon told through projected memory and the spaces it haunts.
Director Claire Manjarrès · Conductor Thomas Palmer
View projectRavel’s double bill with L’Heure Espagnole — drawing brought to life across the stage.
Director James Bonas · Animation Grégoire Pont
View projectVideo for Laplane & Bonas’ portrait of a contested queen — history refracted through image.
Choreography Sophie Laplane · Direction James Bonas
View projectCo-designed with Grégoire Pont — Mozart’s fairy tale drawn live, illustration breathing across the set.
Co-designed with Grégoire Pont · Set Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
View projectScenography and video for Sondheim’s Company — a city of glass rooms lit from within.
Music & lyrics Stephen Sondheim · Génération Opéra · Nominated, Trophées de la Comédie Musicale
View projectProjected image for The Sorcerer in San Francisco — enchantment as a trick of the light.
Assisting Grégoire Pont on Bonas’ Snow Queen — a winter conjured entirely in projected drawing.
Lead video design Grégoire Pont · Set Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
View projectAssisting on Orff’s Der Mond at Opéra de Lyon — a fable of stolen moonlight told in animation.
Lead video design Grégoire Pont · Lighting Christophe Chaupin
View projectCo-designed with Étienne Guiol in the Boboli Gardens — Rossini’s fairy tale projected onto Florentine stone.
Director Jean-Romain Vesperini · Video Anouar Brissel & Étienne Guiol · Lighting Christophe Chaupin
View projectVideo for Cie Kalijo’s piece on school bullying — dance, circus and slam suspended between the real and the imagined.
Choreography Aurore Castan-Aïn · Music Clément Roussillat · Texts Damien Guillemin
View projectA choreographic experiment filmed underwater — the body suspended, weightless, in projected light.
Choreography Aude Cortes · Diving Posidonie Production
View projectOn the horizon
Selected venues
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