Tal Yarden has created video designs for numerous live events including dance, theater, opera and music performances. Upcoming projects include Cries & Whispers and The Antonioni Project (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); Zoom (Zvi Dance) and Mozart’s Idomeneo (La Monnaie, Brussels). Recent work includes Beast and Liberty City at New York Theater Workshop, Angels in America, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Ceasar and Coriolanus for Toneelgroep and Wagner’s Ring Cycle for the Vlaamse Opera. Previous design work includes Pavel Zustiak’s Le Petit Mort and Martha Clarke’s Kaos in New York and Ivo van Hove’s productions of Mourning becomes Electra and Rent, Mark Wing-Davey’s Monkey in the Middle and Stephen Petronio’s The King is Dead (with Cindy Sherman) and Not Garden. He has also designed for Reza Abdoh’s Tight Right White and Quotations from a Ruined City, and Tim Feldmann’s Twin-Project all of which have toured in Europe. In New York he has designed for John Jesurun, Jim Simpson, Mikel Rouse, DD Dorvillier’s, Mia Lawrence, Kyle de Camp, Conway and Pratt, and Margarita Guergue. Together with his partner, Patricia Fox he created the original productions of Corpus Exquisitus and A Dog and Pony Show. In 1994, he co-founded the theater company Chashama for which he created the site-specific shows Jr. Black’s Office and Disease Machine.
Tal Yarden was born in Israel and grew up in Red Hook, NY. He studied filmmaking and film theory at Bard College with Adolfas Mekas, Paul Arthur, P. Adam Sidney, Bruce Bailey, Tom Brenner and Ken Ross. His early films were influenced by Ken Jacobs and Maya Deren. At Bard College, He curated the film program for two years presenting more than 200 films of every kind including many experimental films presented by visiting filmmakers. He also studied documentary filmmaking with the founder of Cinema Verite, Jean Rouche at Harvard. During the 80s he made music videos for various bands including the Silos, 10,000 Maniacs, and Barkmarket.
