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Barry Kay (born Melbourne 1932 - died London 1985)
Barry Kay, trained at the Academie Julien in Paris, was a highly talented and internationally acclaimed stage and costume designer. In the course of his career, lasting almost four decades, he designed for the ballet, drama and opera alike. Kay's emphasis, however, lay in pioneering three-dimensional stage set designs for the ballet. By breaking away from the traditional use of "flat wings" scenery he expanded the revolutionary ideas of the Russian constructivists and the Italian suprematists for theatre design in the early part of the 20th century.
Among others, Kay designed for the choreographers Peter Darrell, Kenneth MacMillan and Rudolf Nureyev and for ballet companies such as 'Western Theatre Ballet', 'The Royal Ballet', 'The Australian Ballet','The Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin', 'The Stuttgart Ballet', 'The Vienna State Opera Ballet' and 'American Ballet Theater'. Later in his career he also became a photographer of subjects with socio-anthropological contents.
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