Rémi Nicolas has worked regularly with Dominique Bagouet (1976-1984), François Verret (1982-1993), Peter Goss, Béatrice Massin, Joëlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia, and of course Josef Nadj since 1989... He is also Carolyn Carlson's lighting designer for Hidden, Inanna and Dialogue with Rothko.
His lighting becomes the necessary vector for reading the show, with a concern for sobriety in the composition. His aim is to combine space, matter and light. The image is treated in all its thickness. He doesn't illuminate the dancers, but immerses them in a particular space that reveals the aura of the dance. He uses counterpoints and fairly frank colors, and his light-matter is mobile and rhythmic. They infiltrate, resonate and carve out shadows that play with fantastic worlds: characteristics that form a luminous echo of Nadj's universe, for example.
Rémi Nicolas has produced a number of installation projects treating light as a substance essential to what it designs, but also as a universal, autonomous material, a scenographic object. He also collaborates on projects for museography, scenography, private and publicarchitectureand events.