Barry Kay
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Barry Kay (born Melbourne 1932 - died London 1985), trained at the Academie Julien in Paris, was a highly talented and internationally acclaimed stage and costume designer. In the course of his career, lasting almost four decades, he designed for the ballet, drama and opera alike. Kay's emphasis, however, lay in pioneering three-dimensional stage set designs for the ballet. By breaking away from the traditional use of "flat wings" scenery he expanded the revolutionary ideas of the Russian Constructivists and the Italian Futurists for theatre design in the early part of the 20th century.
Among others, Kay designed for the choreographers Peter Darrell, Kenneth MacMillan and Rudolf Nureyev and for ballet companies such as 'Western Theatre Ballet', 'The Royal Ballet', 'The Australian Ballet','The Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin' ¹), 'The Stuttgart Ballet', 'The Vienna State Opera Ballet' and 'American Ballet Theater'. Later in his career he also became a photographer of subjects with socio-anthropological contents.
¹) Following the German unification, the company merged with the "Ballett der Staatsoper", formerly East Berlin, and is now operating at both opera houses under the new name of the 'Staatsballett Berlin'.
Due to existing copyrights further information on Barry Kay's constructed sets and his entire opus cannot be displayed here and, therefore, is only accessible via the external links below.