Tatyana van Walsum Costume designer

Biography

Tatyana van Walsum studied theatre design in London, at the Wimbledon School of Art and the Motley Theatre Design Academy. She regularly collaborates with choreographers such as Krzysztof Pastor, Dominique Dumais, Kevin O'Day, Juanjo Argues and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and has performed with companies around the world, including the Dutch National Ballet, the Polish National Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Toronto Ballet Company, the Australian Ballet, the Scottish Ballet, the Swedish Royal Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.

She has received numerous awards, including the Benois de la danse for best set design (Le Jour Même for the Lyon Opera Ballet) and the Green Room Award for best ballet design (Symphonie fantastique for the Australian Ballet).

In 2003 Tatyana van Walsum designed the sets and costumes for Nigel Warrington's production of Così fan tutte for the Aarhus Festival in Denmark, which won the Reumert Pris Award for the best opera production of the year. In opera, she also designed the sets and costumes for Aida directed by Shirin Neshat at the Salzburg Festival in 2017, Don Giovanni directed by Demis Volpi at the Weimar Opera in 2018, and Echnaton for Giuseppe Spota at the Dortmund Opera in 2019.

More recently she has collaborated on Echoes of van Gogh choreographed by Wubkje Kundersma for the West Australian Ballet in 2023, Full Frontal by Juanjo Arques for the Dutch National Ballet in 2023 and A Kiss to the world choreographed by Dominique Dumais for Ballet am Rheim in 2024. Tatyana van Walsum has designed numerous exhibitions, notably for the Amsterdam Museum, Museum Het Rembrandthuis and Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn. She teaches at the Academy for Theater Studies in Amsterdam and at the Sandberg Master Academy for Opera Studies.

Debut at the Opéra National de Paris