James F. Ingalls designed MCB’s Firebird, The Fairy’s Kiss and George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Recent designs for dance include Twyla Now! (NY City Center); Celts (Kansas City Ballet); Ibsen’s House (Charlotte Ballet).

Other dance work includes Unbound (San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival); Waiting at the Station, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Pacific Northwest Ballet); Onegin (National Ballet of Canada); Concertiana, Continuum, Brief Encounters (Paul Taylor Dance Company); Layla and Majnun, Mozart Dances, Dido and Aeneas, The Hard Nut, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Mark Morris Dance Group).

His designs for opera include Orfeo et Euridice (Metropolitan Opera); several world premieres by John Adams and Kaija Saariaho, all directed by Peter Sellars. His recent work in theatre includes Once Before I Go, Pale Sister (Gate Theatre/Dublin); The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, The Beacon (Druid/Galway). He often collaborates with the Wooden Floor dancers in Santa Ana, CA.