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	Since the mid 1980's, Michael Mazzola's critically acclaimed designs have been seen in venues all over the US and Europe, ranging from opera houses to circus tents to outdoor amphitheaters.  Beyond his work as resident lighting designer for OREGON BALLET THEATRE, the two-time NEW YORK DANCE AND PERFORMANCE AWARD-winning designer has created lighting for the BEBE MILLER COMPANY, for whom he has designed since 1986; STEVE PAXTON AND LISA NELSON, YOSHIKO CHUMA; the multimedia symphony BABAR composed by Raphael Mostel, as well any number of regional companies including MILWAUKEE BALLET, NASHVILLE BALLET, ASPEN / SANTA FE BALLET COMPANY, TRINITY IRISH DANCE COMPANY, and HUBBARD STREET DANCE COMPANY.  Recent projects have included the lighting design for NICOLO FONTE’S premiere of WITHIN/WITHOUT, set on PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET.  In August 2000, Michael was the Production Designer for STARS OF THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET, performing outdoors in a garden he designed especially for the event in the South of France. Michael’s lighting for music events has been seen many times in venues such as NJPAC’s  Prudential Hall and Victoria Theatre, working with artists such as INDIA IRIE, CELIA CRUZ, MICHAEL FEINSTEIN AND GUESTS, and a wide variety of Jazz greats such as KENNY BARRON WITH REGINA CARTER and PHAROAH SANDERS. Upcoming designs this season include new work, by the BEBE MILLER COMPANY, THE LIZ LERMAN DANCE EXCHANGE and TREY MCINTYRE and a new NUTCRACKER, both for ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET; two premieres for Mr. FONTE, one on the ROYAL BALLET OF FLANDERS and the other on the STUTTGART BALLET.
	Recent Reviews
	The Oregonian, Friday May 31, 2002, by Bob Hicks “…It’s a light, dreamy, hilarious skit, cleverly designed and (like the rest of the program) brilliantly lighted by Michael Mazzola.” The New York Times, January 30, 2002, Wednesday, by Jennifer Dunning “Magically, one is transported back to the bucolic Pillow of today and its enjoyably musty earlier self. And everyone adds just the right ingredients to the mix: the performers, the lighting designer, Michael Mazzola,…” The Village Voice, December 18, 2001, by Deborah Jowitt “Michael Mazzola's lighting is as clear and spare and imaginative as Hahn Rowe's music.” The Durango Herald, April 6, 2001, by Judith Reynolds “Choreographer Trey McIntyre must share credit for his 1997 'Like a Samba' with lighting designer Michael Mazzola and costumer Janet Elam. The clean, modern look of the stage with it’s squares of light framing five silhouetted dancers set the tone…” The Oregonian, Wednesday, March 7, 2001 by Bob Hicks “The ballet's brilliant resident lighting designer, Michael Mazzola, gives the scene a dark, mythic feel, as if it were emerging from some primordial place.” The Oregonian, October 18, 2000, by Catherine Thomas “'Romeo and Juliet'…Set to Sergey Prokofiev’s sublime score was a swift procession of 11 action-packed scenes, aided by Michael Mazzola’s gorgeous lighting design…” Willamette Week, March 8, 2000, by Catherine Thomas “In rendering 'Illuminations' complex moods and imagery, lighting designer Michael Mazzola clearly served as co-choreographer.”
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