Niklas Pajanti

Niklas works with trafficlight as a lighting designer whose practice ranges across contemporary dance, drama, events and architecture.

His work for performance includes designs for Chunky Move, Eleventh Hour, Dancehouse, Kage Physical Theatre, Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Hoist, Company in Space, National Institute of Circus Arts, Trace Mitchell, Gerard Van Dyck, Stephanie Lake and many others. He is a recipient of the Green Room Award for Lighting Design in Dance (2002).

Niklas’ career has seen him realize lighting designs for architectural installations, arena size events, dance performances, physical theatre, drama, installations and mixed media performances that have toured Australia, Europe, North America and Asia.

He is a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts and holds post graduate qualifications in Illuminating Engineering from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.