Studio
For Ceciel van Slobbe, light is more than something that illuminates a performance. It is a material to shape, transform and set in motion.
As the founder of Be The Disco Ball, she explores this fascination through performances that unite costume, choreography and light in one living visual experience.
Handmade in NL by Ceciel van Slobbe
Ceciel's creative approach is shaped by an unusual combination: a background in engineering and a lifelong passion for costume design and movement. From the first idea to the finished performance, Ceciel leads every stage of the creative process. She designs the costumes, develops the choreography and leads the light-show design and overall visual direction, collaborating closely with a team of technical specialists and performers to bring each concept to life.
Ceciel is also a dancer and aerialist within the company. Performing alongside the other artists gives her an inside perspective on every creation and allows the relationship between body, costume and light to remain at the heart of her work.
Moving between dance, aerial acrobatics, costume design and light design, Ceciel creates powerful living artworks in which the body becomes a constantly changing source of reflection, colour and movement.
Show Design
It started with a simple fascination: one tiny body movement creating an effect that fills an entire space.
Every costume is paired with its own bespoke light design. See them come to life in the Living Light Shows or get in touch to book a show.
The Collection
Every suit in the collection is an original, developed over years of experimenting with light, reflection and materials. These are the four families they fall into:
01
Mirror Suits
The Human Disco Balls. Around six kilos of hand-placed mirrors that turn every light beam in the room into a moving reflection.
03
UV Designs
Thousands of hand-placed UV-reactive stones that transform the performer into a glowing creature under blacklight.
02
Prism Suits
Over 3,000 glass stones that split white light into all the colours of the rainbow. The suit weighs 20 kilos and is worn for a full choreo.
04
Combination Suits
The newest work from the atelier merges mirror, prism and neon into a single ten kilo suit, one performance with every effect.
From Atelier to the Stage
Each suit is a construction as much as a costume. The base is reinforced to carry the weight of around 3,000 hand-placed mirrors, prisms or stones, between five and twenty kilos depending on the design, without ever affecting the fit. Only after some hundred hours of construction do the first mirrors go on.
Between Shows
Before every show each mirror is polished; after heavy use, suits come back for repairs and a deep clean. It is continuous, careful work, and it is why suits from 2018 still fly today.
Light Studio, Power Productions
Every show is developed and programmed in the Power Productions Light Studio. The creative process begins with the music, with lighting cues and choreography developed side by side to form one visual composition.
Once the design is complete, the entire show is time-coded, precisely synchronising every movement and lighting cue.
