DESIGN FOR STAGE AND FILM
ABOUT
Aleisa Jelbart is an award winning, Sydney based Costume and Stage Designer. specialising in design for movement, dance and cross disciplinary performance.
Aleisa has collaborated with a number of Australian and international arts companies including The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Opera Australia, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, Legs on the Wall, The Australian Theatre for Young People, Singapore Ballet and the Komische Oper Berlin. Her costumes have been featured in works presented at the National Portrait Gallery, The Biennale of Sydney, The Gertrude Contemporary, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and the TarraWarra Biennial.
Aleisa has worked extensively with Sydney Dance Company since 2014 as a designer and stylist. Credits include Costume Design for Rafael Bonachela's Impermanence 2021, Lux Tenebris 2016, Anima 2016 and Melanie Lane's Woof 2019. Aleisa has designed costumes and props for almost 30 works in SDC's annual New Breed program.
As an educator, Aleisa has run design and theatre making workshops and classes for The Australian Museum, The Australian Theatre for Young People, Matriark Theatre, City of Sydney and Design Centre Enmore. In 2019 she was an Artist in Residence at the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, working with patients through the Arterie program.
Aleisa is the recipient of the 2014/15 Hephzibah Tintner Fellowship for Production Design and the 2016 Berlin New Music Opera Award (the Opera Foundation for Young Australians). She was nominated for Best Costume Design (Independent) at the 2022 Sydney Theatre Awards.