Light Designer

Moritz Zavan Stoeckle began his Bharatanatyam training in 1995 with Savitry Nair. In 2007 he started his career as a lighting designer in Venice at Teatro Fondamente Nuove. In 2010 he started training in contemporary dance. In 2012, he won the audience prize of the GD'A Veneto competition. In 2013 his Bharatanatyam solo debut was presented by Mavin Khoo in Venice, and the same year he performed in India under the guidance of SeetharamaSharma. Since then, he has performed several solo shows in India and Europe. Since 2012 he is also working as a freelance dancer and collaborated with several international companies and choreographers such as Contact Dance Company, Shobana Jeyasingh and Seeta Patel, with whom in 2022 he performed The Rite Of Spring at the Sadler’s Wells. In 2018 he obtained an MA in ‘Performing Arts – Dance’ with a dissertation on multi-genre choreographies that merge Indian classical dance and contemporary dance. Currently he is working as a freelance dancer, lighting designer, and movement director while also working as assistant lecturer at Mcast, Institute for the Creative Arts in Malta.