Saskia Boddeke

Saskia Boddeke (born 1962) is a Dutch multimedia artist and stage, opera and film-director. Her work incorporates multiple projections, computer programming, virtual environments such as Second Life, and inter-connecting animated audio-visual avatars with live actors. Her performances have been shown around the world. Boddeke also creates immersive multimedia installations where the visitors are surrounded by projections, sounds, light, smells and art objects. In 2015 Saskia was awarded the Russian TANR award for her exhibition in Moscow: "The Black Square, The Golden Age of the Russian Avantgarde", a multimedia installation. Opera and music theatre performances Boddeke started to work as stage director and founded her own company Vals Akkoord and directed several productions. Boddeke also worked at the Dutch National Opera. In 1994 Boddeke directed the Opera 'Rosa, a horse drama. The libretto was written by Peter Greenaway. Boddeke and Greenaway worked very successfully together on several projects, Boddeke being responsible for the concept and direction based on Greenaway's libretto. 1994 & 1996: ‘Rosa, a horse drama, music by Louis Andriessen, libretto by Peter Greenaway, directed by Saskia Boddeke (Dutch National Opera) Amsterdam. A feature film is made of this production. 1997 & 1998: ‘Christoph Colomb’, music by Darius Milhaud, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. 1997-1999: ‘100 Objects to Represent the World’, music by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, libretto by Peter Greenaway, premiered at the Salzburger Zeitfluss Festival, the show toured around Europe and South America. 2000: ‘Writing To Vermeer’, music by Louis Andriessen, libretto by Peter Greenaway, premiered at the DNO in Amsterdam, travelled to New York Lincoln Festival and Adelaide Festival in Australia. 2000: ‘La Gazzetta’ music by Rossini at the Summerborn Festival Zwolle 2001: ‘Gold, 92 Bars in a Crashed Car’, music by Borut Krisnik, libretto by Peter Greenaway, at Schauspiel Frankfurt. 2003: ‘Die Zauberflöte’, Mozart’, in co-direction with Pierre Audi (Salzburger Festspiele) Salzburg. 2005: ‘The Falls’ an installation-music theatre with the students of AERTEZ, music inspired by David Lang, from the collection of short biographies from The Falls by Peter Greenaway at the Broerenkerk Zwolle 2005: ‘Democracy’ an installation. Athens. 2008 - 2012: ‘The Blue Planet’ music by Goran Bregovic, libretto Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke.