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Greta Goiris studied costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and set design at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She designed her first costumes for productions by Jacques Delcuvellerie in Brussels and Avignon. Among them were Dorst’s Große Schmährede an der Stadtmauer, Brecht’s Die Mutter, Racine’s Andromaque and the docudrama Rwanda 1994.

Greta Goiris studied costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and set design at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She designed her first costumes for productions by Jacques Delcuvellerie in Brussels and Avignon. Among them were Dorst’s Große Schmährede an der Stadtmauer, Brecht’s Die Mutter, Racine’s Andromaque and the docudrama Rwanda 1994.

Since 2001 she has worked with Johan Simons on numerous productions involving both stage plays and examples of music theatre, including Martin McDonagh’s The Leenane Trilogy with the ZT Hollandia theatre company in Antwerp, Simons’s own Sentimenti, Calderón’s La vida es sueño and Louis Paul Boon’s Vergeten straat for the Ruhrtriennale, Aeschylus’s The Persians at the Munich Kammerspiele and Jean Genet’s Les nègres at the Vienna Festival. For Simons’s opera productions she has designed the costumes for Fidelio at the Paris Opéra (2008), Duke Bluebeard’s Castle at the 2008 Salzburg Festival and Gluck’s Alceste at the 2016 Ruhrtriennale. During the summer of 2016 she also designed the costumes for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s production of Les Indes galantes at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

Greta Goiris has worked with many leading directors, including Pierre Audi, Ivo van Hove, Karin Beier, Josse De Pauw and Peter Verhelst. She first worked with William Kentridge on his production of Die Zauberflöte at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 2005. Since then she has been involved in Kentridge’s productions of The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lulu at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, at the Met and at the English National Opera in London, Refuse the Hour at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam and Winterreise at the Vienna Festival. She has also worked on four of Kentridge’s video installations: The Refusal of Time at documenta in Kassel, Paper Music at the Firenze Suona Contemporanea Festival, More Sweetly Play the Dance at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam and O Sentimental Machine at the Istanbul Biennal.