Kenneth L. Keith’s career spans 47 years and three continents. Audiences for ballet, modern dance, opera, theater, musical theater, and concerts have enjoyed his designs.  
           Mr. Keith’s design venues include Edinburgh Festival Fringe, American Dance Festival, Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival and New York’s Riverside and Lincoln Center Dance Festivals. Lighting design credits for Artistic Director Dennis Nahat’s Ballet San Jose include THE NUTCRACKER, COPPÉLIA, BLUE SUEDE SHOES, CELEBRATIONS AND ODE, MIDDLE KINGDOM-ANCIENT CHINA and A POLOVTSIAN TALE and dozens of others. 
            He was responsible for an unprecedented 8-city tour to major cities in China as Technical Director and Lighting Designer for Ballet San Jose in 2008 lighting CARMINA BURANA, THE FIREBIRD, MENDELSSOHN SYMPHONY SWAN LAKE, and ONTOGENY. He was also responsible for George Balanchine’s THEME AND VARIATIONS and APOLLO, Martha Graham’s APPALACHIAN SPRING, Roland Petit’s CARMEN, Flemming Flindt’s RED SHOES or LEGS OF FIRE and MIRACULOUS MANDARIN, Daryl Gray’s PIRATES OF PENZANCE and CINEMA SOUNDTRACKS, Michael Smuin’s STRAVINSKY PIANO PIECES, THE TEMPEST and SHINJU. A long time lighting designer of the Donald McKayle repertory among them,