Thomas Greven-Kogler
Cultural project direction & technical XR/AV production
We build the invisible backbone of live digital performances. Where dance, music and audience meet, through motion capture, real-time rendering and video-over-network, we design the technical pipelines that make it truly work: live, low-latency, and without a single thing allowed to falter.
Stage Innovations is based in Amsterdam and founded by Thomas Greven-Kogler (educated at NHL Stenden University). Our work lives on the border of technology and art. On one side: network engineering, redundant broadcast architecture and custom software that pushes the edge of what real-time allows. On the other: dancers, drones, digital characters and an audience that has to feel something.
Depending on the production we switch between marker-based tracking (OptiTrack) for sub-millimetre precision and markerless capture (Captury) for fast, suit-free setups. Our role is to merge those worlds so seamlessly that the technology disappears and only the experience remains.
Joyce den Hertog
Creative technologist, light and décor
Joyce designs light and décor as creative technology. Where many designers stop at the image, she works all the way down into the craft beneath it: lighting consoles (GrandMA3 and ETC), show and video technology, rigging and set come together into one whole that carries a performance.
Like us, she works on the border of technology and art. Joyce brings dancers, performers and audiences together with motion capture, interactive installations and generative visuals, and experiments with robots and drones as performative partners. Within the Stage Innovations team, light and décor are her domain, from first design to the desk on the night itself.