Yashi Tabassomi
Yashi Tabassomi (born 1971 in Berlin ), often Yashi for short , is a German stage and costume designer for theater and opera. She was best known for her collaborations with Robert Wilson and Adriana Altaras .
life and work
Yashi's father is German, her mother Peruvian of Japanese descent. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in the classes of Martin Rupprecht and Vivienne Westwood . She was already active in her field during her studies, for example designing costumes and masks for the world premiere The Box by Franco Evangelisti , staged by Maria Elena Amos. Her graduation thesis at the UdK was stage and costume design for Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande , staged by Jörn Weisbrodt.
Since studying at the Watermill Center in Long Island , New York in 1999 , she has been part of the team led by the American director Robert Wilsons , the center's founder. She has been working as a freelance worker since 2000 and is employed on stage and costume at the Berliner Ensemble .
She participated in the Robert Wilson productions in New York (White Raven) , Copenhagen ( Woyzeck ) , Paris ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) and Berlin (Leonce and Lena) . In 2007 she was the costume designer for the Rumi - In the blink of the eye project by Kudsi Ergüner and Robert Wilson at the Pallas Theater in Athens, and in 2009 for Wilson's interpretation of Beckett's Krapp’s Last Tape at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto . This was followed by the costumes for two of Wilson's operas: 2011 Katja Kabanowa at the National Theater in Prague , 2015 La traviata at the Musiktheater Linz .
In 2002 she created the costumes for the Hans Neuenfels production of Strindberg's Dance of Death at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
She has been working together for many years with the director Adriana Altaras, mainly for operettas, musicals and comic operas, such as Die Fledermaus (at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam), The Merry Widow (at the Aachen Theater ), Prince Methuselah (at the Dresden State Operetta ), Fiddler on the roof (at the Stadttheater Osnabrück ), La Cenerentola and Die Fledermaus (at the Landestheater Linz ) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (at the Staatstheater Kassel ).
The collaboration with the French author and director Marie-Eve Signeyrole took her to the opera houses of Montpellier, Strasbourg, Rouen, Nancy, Limoges, Riga and Hanover. The collaborative works included Eugen Onegin , Owen Wingrave , Il tabarro / Royal Palace , Gianni Schicchi / La notte di un nevrastenico , Carmen , Nabucco , La damnation de Faust and Don Giovanni at the Opera du Rhin (Strasbourg). In December 2014 she realized a new production of Mozart's Idomeneo at the Opéra National de Montpellier with the French director Jean-Yves Courrègelongue and the set designer Matthieu Lorry-Dupuy .
In 2015 she designed the costumes for the opening ceremony of the 1st European Games, which took place in Baku.
Yashi lives in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .
Award
In 2009 Yashi was awarded the Hein Heckroth Stage Design Prize (sponsorship award). Robert Wilson gave the laudation in the form of an onomatopoeic poem .
In 2016, Yashi was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the costumes of the opening ceremony of the 1st European Games in Baku. In 2017 she was nominated for the Golden Mask for the costume design of La Traviata, directed by Robert Wilson .
Web links / sources
- Yashi Tabassomi, culture database from Kulturserver.de (biography)
- Musiktheater Linz , short biography of the artist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hein Heckroth Stage Design Award 2009
- ↑ Robert Wilson: Laudation to Yashi Tabassomi
- ↑ FOURTH AWARD OF THE HEIN-HECKROTH-STAGE PICTURE PRIZE TO ROBERT WILSON (NEW YORK), tanznetz.de
- ↑ Daytime Emmy Award 2016 on goldderby.com, accessed July 16, 2019
- ↑ Golden Mask Festival - Nominees 2017 goldenmask.ru, accessed on July 16, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tabassomi, Yashi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yashi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage and costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |