James F. Ingalls

American lighting designer James F. Ingalls creates lighting designs for ballet and modern dance as well as theatre, symphony concerts and opera. He is a welcome guest at Dutch National Opera & Ballet, where he provided the lighting designs for the operas Only the Sound Remains, La Clemenza di Tito, Girls of the Golden West and Nixon in China, the musical theatre production Perle Noire, the full-length ballets Coppelia, Giselle, Don Quixote and several works of the Dutch National Ballet programme Present/s, among others. In addition, he created several lighting designs for the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Mark Morris Dance Group and the non-profit dance academy The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, California. He has also worked with theatre director Garry Hynes and opera director Peter Sellars for many years.

In recent years, Ingalls provided the lighting designs for TWYLA NOW at the New York City Center, a new production of George Balanchine's Firebird for Miami City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky's The Sleeping Beauty (for American Ballet Theatre and Balletto del Teatro alla Scala) and The Fairy's Kiss (for Miami City Ballet), the twelve world premieres presented by San Francisco Ballet in the programme Unbound and for Raymonda by Dutch National Ballet.

Last update: 03-10-2024