Chahine
Yavroyan – Lighting Designer, musician, performer, artist
Born February 171950; died September 3 2018
Chahine Yavroyan, who has died aged 68 following a short battle with cancer, helped revolutionise what a lighting designer could achieve onstage, both for text-based work and the more playful abstractions that the dance world opened up. Beyond a stream of collaborations with world class artists as a lighting designer, Yavroyan was a polymath and renaissance man. As a musician, sound designer and performer with People Show, the pioneering live art troupe he joined at the end of the 1970s, he was an artist in every way.
As everyone who ever came into contact with Yavroyan observed, he was the epitome of cool. This wasn’t just about his immaculate approach to dress, which saw him perennially clad in a white shirt and waistcoat combination alongside an array of hats that was the everyday attire of the Egyptian men about town Yavroyan grew up beside in Cairo. It was as much to do wi…
Born February 171950; died September 3 2018
Chahine Yavroyan, who has died aged 68 following a short battle with cancer, helped revolutionise what a lighting designer could achieve onstage, both for text-based work and the more playful abstractions that the dance world opened up. Beyond a stream of collaborations with world class artists as a lighting designer, Yavroyan was a polymath and renaissance man. As a musician, sound designer and performer with People Show, the pioneering live art troupe he joined at the end of the 1970s, he was an artist in every way.
As everyone who ever came into contact with Yavroyan observed, he was the epitome of cool. This wasn’t just about his immaculate approach to dress, which saw him perennially clad in a white shirt and waistcoat combination alongside an array of hats that was the everyday attire of the Egyptian men about town Yavroyan grew up beside in Cairo. It was as much to do wi…