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Alice!?
- dansteater från underlandet
Teater Västmanland/Västmanlandsmusiken January 2009
Choreography: Benno Voorham
Music: Örjan Högberg (Fläskkvartetten)
Set and Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Christer Billström
Conductor: B Thommy Anderson
Sound Design: Ulf Kahlin
Dancers: Ylva Henriksson, Margareta Jansson,
Adel Andersson & Rami Jawhari
Musicans: Västerås Sinfonietta
Choreography assistant: Sybrig Dokter
Set Assistant: Daniel Israelsson
Producer: Ursula Jekell
Assistant Producer: Jennie Wilhelmsson
Photos: Mats Bäcker, Thomas Häntzschel
& Maline Casta
Boy & Boy
Moderna Dansteatern 2007
Idea: Dorte Olesen & Philippe Boix-Vives
Choreography: Dorte Olesen
Music: Philippe Boix-Vives
Set and Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Tobias Hallgren
Hair and Makeup: Sofia Ranow
Dancers: Rami Jawhari, Christoffer
Schieche & Björn Säften
Seamstress: Marie Nilsson
Carpenter: Daniel Israelsson
Producer: Stina Dahlström
All photos by Unn Tiba
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Music by Maurice Ravel
Libretto by Colette
Director: Lillian Groag
Set Design: John Conklin
Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Matthew McCarthy
Conductor: Yves Abel
Choreographer: Jeanne Slater
The Juilliard School
New York, 2004
Production Photos by Nan Melville
TURANDOT
music by Giacomo Puccini,
Libretto by Giuseooe Adami &
Renato Simoni
Concept & Costume Design by
Maline Casta
Thesis Project,
TSOA, New York University 2004
Excerpt from my concept statement:
(...) In her essay ”Artificial Flavor: Asian Identity & the Cult of Fashion” the artist and writer Ingrid Chu asks what it means to take objects from a foreign and non-industrialized culture and integrate them into an expression of Twentieth-Century Western culture without any obvious connection to history or tradition. Don’t they tend to become empty empty symbols of exoticism? Similarly Valerie Steel and John S. Major, authors of the book China Chic - East meets West, pose the question of whether it’s possible for western designers to draw inspiration from Asian dress without engaging in neo-imperialistic appropriation and cultural stereotyping. When designers lift an
entire look from its context without being conscious of its specific time, place or origin - are they not guilty of creating a mysticism about foreign regions without a true understanding of the culture itself? Doesn’t this further lead us to buy into fantasy and lose whatever exists behind its glossy exteriors? Steel and Major agrees that this is true on one level, but points out that the same criticism applies whenever designers are inspired by anything beyond their immediate lives. They mean that it’s important
to remember that the main goal for the (fashion) designer is not necessarily to do an accurate historical reconstruction of past style but to create a new meaning. Steele and Major also argues that it’s wrong to think that exoticism in our time is dying due to the increasing amount of rapidly moving images and information. They see a tendency in both cuisine, decoration, tourism and fashion that keep the myth about ”the exotic other” alive. And they asks if this tendency just is a banal and frivolous manifestation
of the power of marketing in an age of global capitalism, or if it reflects more profound aspirations. (...)
My setting for the piece is the interiour of a huge factory, day and night producing
fortune cookies. The characters in the story are a product of this machine as well as the ones who keep it alive (they feed of each other). The factory works as a metaphor for a capitalist society where everything resolves about production, and a symbol of marriage as a union/institution that produces children. The factory never stops. The product of the factory, the fortune cookies, works as an image for what ”eastern wisdom” has become, for how everything seen from a capitalist point of view has a prize and can be packaged and sold. It is also important to know that the fortune cookie is an American invention that has no history in the Asian cuisine (except a vague resemblance to moon cakes) and is now being marketed as ”real American fortune cookies” in China. Along the assembly line in the factory workers cut out squares with premade cookie cutters, all with the exact same shape. This is a world where nature has lost its power, the moon
is locked out and we only see it through the window in the ceiling. The people, as a group, are confused. They don’t know whom to believe in or whom to listen to. They keep switching sides and opinions throughout the opera. (...)
I wanted to set Turandot on the edge between two worlds. My imaginary Peking
exists in a wasteland where two different cultures and two different times melt together,
creating a chaos where no one any longer can tell what inspired what - if we are at
Mc Donald’s in China or in a Chinese take-out restaurant in America. Turandot is caught
in the middle of this chaos, surrounded by stereotypes and seemingly the only one who
is real and ”normal”. The opera becomes the story of a young woman’s desperate grasping for sanity and reason, a story about growing up in a world that doesn’t seem to make sense and about the need for something or someone to identify with. The question of compulsory marriage is also close at hand. We see the story from Tornado’s perspective, a teenage girl’s view of the world she’s living in. (...)
Möte Sverige 06
Möte # 2
Vor Fa Chre Corominio
Dance: Ulrika Fernqvist, Anders Jacobson, Ingrid Lundmark, Maria Naidu, Tove Sahlin, Kajsa Sandstöm,
Torbjörn Stenberg & Peter Svenzon
Music: Erika Alexandersson, Lisa Eriksson & Josef Kallerdahl
Room: Maline Casta
Costumes: Ellen Utterström & Bente Rolandsdotter
Produced by Produkt, Moderna Dansteatern 2006
Photos by Emelie Thelander & Ellen Utterström
Julskyltning 2007
(Christmas Decor)
Interior and exterior installations
on a theme playing with
the hysteria of Christmas shopping
Concept & Design: Maline Casta
TD & Carpenter: Daniel Israelsson
Gallerian Skrapan, Stockholm 2007
Waste in Process II
Quarto Physical Theater c/o Moderna Dansteatern 2007
Concept, Director & Performer: Leandro Zappala
Assistant Director & Performer : Anna af Sillén de Mesquita
Associate Designer & Performer: Maline Casta
Performers: Kajsa Staaf & Andrés Pérez Barrera
Sound Design: Edson Secco
Video Projections: Ronnie Ansered & Olav Melander
Producers: Anna af Sillén de Mesquita & Stina Dahlström
All photos by Elvine Lund
Lulu
Opera by Alban Berg
Concept & Costume Design by
Maline Casta
School Project,
TSOA, New York University 2004
Gum
by Karen Hartman
Directed by Lisa Rothe
Set Design: Brandon Smith
Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Lucrecia Briceno
Sound Design: Mark Gwinn
New York University 2004
All photos by Brandon Smith
Life is a dream
by Calderon de la Barca
Director: Elkhanah Pulitzer
Set Design: Chad Owens
Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Peter Ksander
Music: Eli Crews
Dramaturg: Lucia Scheckner
Cast: Devin Burnam, Rebecca
Henderson, Jessica Kaye, Luis
Moreno, Christopher Oden,
David Skeist, Richard Thieriot &
Matthew R. Wilson
Columbia University
Theater of the Riverside Church
New York 2005
All photos by Nan Melville
(rehersal photos)
More Ether, Extra Instinct
by Seán Curran
Choreography: Seán Curran
Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Lucas Benjamin Krech
Photos by Brandon Smith & Aaron Mooney
2nd Ave. Dance Company, New York University 2004
Sveaborg
av AnnaSara Hammar
Director: Emil Nilsson-Mäki
Set & Costume Design: Maline Casta
Music: Anton Täljebäck
Lighting Design: Jonas Nimrodsson
Hair & Makeup: Jana Bringlöv Ekspong
Costume Ass/Draper: Sidi Fjällström
Carpenter: Daniel Israelsson
Producer: Ingunn Grande
All Photos: Andreas Nilsson
Interaktiv Historia
c/o Profilteatern 2008
L´enfant Prodigue
Music by Claude Debussy, Text by Edouard Guinand
Directed by Lillian Groag
Set Design: John Conklin
Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Matthew McCarthy
Choreography: Jeanne Slater
Conductor: Yves Abel
The Juilliard School, New York 2004
Photos by Nan Melville & Maline Casta
Night Sings its Songs
by Jon Fosse
Directed & Translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde
Dramaturgy: Marie-Louise Miller
Set Design: Lauren Helpern
Costume Design: Maline Casta
Lighting Design: Roma Flowers
Sound Design: Ryan Tilke
Music: Christopher Tin
American Premiere, The Culture Project, New York 2004
Produced by Oslo Elsewhere & Spring Theaterworks
All photos by Roma Flowers
Julskyltning 2008
(Christmas Decor)
Interior and exterior installations
on the theme ”Recycling and Fair trade”. (All material
used for the decorations were recycled.)
Concept & Design: Maline Casta
TD & Carpenter: Daniel Israelsson
Gallerian Skrapan, Stockholm 2008
Du och jag och barnen älskling
- Ett drömspel för kvalitetssäkrade vardagsrum
Du och jag och barnen älskling (2007) var den första delen i projektet Möbelserien,
där scenografen Maline Casta och dramatikern Camilla Blomqvist tillsammans
undersökte olika aspekter av konsumtionssamhället, och samtidigt utforskade hur text
och bild kunde samverka i ett rum utanför den traditionella teatersalongen. Idén till
föreställningen kom ur en nyfikenhet kring de senaste årens kraftigt ökade intresse
för heminredning. Med Du och jag och barnen älskling ville vi också diskutera kultur-
politiska frågor inom ramen för relationen mellan konst och konsumtion. Projektet tog
form under en tid då det pratades mycket om att kulturen skulle hitta nya vägar till
finansiellt stöd. Vi ville aktivt undersöka vilka möjligheter och begränsningar det kan
finnas i ett möte mellan konstnärligt skapande och näringsliv.
Föreställningen spelades i inredningsbutiken R.O.O.M. på Kungsholmen i Stock-
holm, efter stängningstid. Spelplatsen utgjordes av de befintliga vardagsrums-
miljöer som fanns i butiken. Publiken placerades delvis i R.O.O.M.s designmöbler
och föreställningen spelades i befintligt ljus. All rekvisita som användes hade
donerats av företag och alla produkter hade prislapparna kvar.
Linn Bergstam och Henrik Bäckbro, båda utexaminerade från Teaterhögskolans
Mimlinje, framförde verket.
Production Info:
Concept, Text and Direction: Maline Casta & Camilla Blomqvist
Performers: Linn Bergstam & Henrik Bäckbro
Sound Design: Fredrik Jonsson
Producer: Linda Jacobsson
Graphic Design: Maline Casta
(For more info please email)
Pressklipp: “istället för att håna lyckas föreställningen visa
det stillsamt desperata hos människan som gått vilse i
tvåsamheten och jakten på tomtebolyckan” - Dagens Nyheter
The physical Sensation of Sudden Comfort
Sudden Comfort (2008) var den andra, fristående delen i Möbelserien. Här flyttades fokus till ett inre rum. Inspiration hämtades bl. a. från barnläkaren och
psykoanalytikern Donald Woods Winnicotts beskrivning av leken som ett tredje rum, placerat mellan den yttre och inre verkligheten. Utgångspunkten i
arbetet var att utforska begreppet komfort och dess innebörd både på ett personligt plan och som faktor i konsumtionssamhället. Vi hade även en ambition
om att försöka skapa ett verk som publiken aktivt kunde uppleva snarare än titta på.
Verket byggdes kring en ram av ett fiktivt företag som gränsade till laboratorium och vårdinrättning och som arbetade med ”kreativa lösningar inom
komfortsektorn”. Publiken fick ta på sig skyddskläder och slussades av komfortvärdinnorna Linn Bergstam och Emelie Johansson in i ett vitt rum där de
placerades i ett hav av förpackningsmaterial. Där inne fick de uppleva en sekvens av text, musik och rörelser, varpå de uppmanades att lägga sig ned för
att genomgå en kollektiv avslappningsövning. Genom högtalarna gav en okänd mansröst instruktioner som till en början liknade en klassisk avslappnings-
övning på band, men som successivt blev mer och mer retorisk och manipulerande. Därefter leddes publiken vidare in i teatern där de bjöds på en socker-
chock bestående av bubbel och hembakade jättemaränger.
Sudden Comfort kan beskrivas som en helkroppsupplevelse, en performance för flera sinnen, som samtidigt kommenterade den då aktuella debatten om
publikens eventuella bekvämlighet.
Verket hade premiär på Grey Room Giljotin/Teater Giljotin, Stockholm, oktober 2008.
Production Info:
Concept, Text and Room: Maline Casta & Camilla Blomqvist
Performers: Linn Bergstam & Emelie Johansson
Sound Design: Tia Marklund
Hair & Makeup: Hanna Holm
Chef: Daniel Israelsson
Producers: Jasmine Wigartz-Göthman & Irini Siga,
Graphic Design: Maline Casta
Produced in collaboration with Grey Room Giljotin
(For more info please email)
Dala-Floda Food Venture
(food performance)
Concept: Marcus Doverud, Daniel Israelsson & Maline Casta
Chefs: Daniel Israelsson & Marcus Doverud
Design: Maline Casta
Green house Poetry: Bure Holmbäck
Performed at Hagenfesten 2007
in collaboration with Wålstedts farm
All photos by Maline Casta
Plankstek
(food performance)
Concept: Marcus Doverud, Daniel Israelsson & Maline Casta
Chefs: Daniel Israelsson, Marcus Doverud & Johan Doverud
Performers: Marcus Doverud, Daniel Israelsson, Maline Casta,
Johan Doverud & Ulrika Berg
Design: Maline Casta
Performed at Hagenfesten 2008
Photos: Heiko Purnhagen & Maline Casta
THE PANCAKE EPILOGUE
The Pancake Epilogue (2009) was a food performance created and
performed by Maline Casta & Daniel Israelsson for the music and art-
festival Hagenfesten in Dalarna.
Following a series of exclusive solo concerts an audience of four people
at a time got to enter a floating porch on Dalälven where they where
served champagne and á lá mintue pancakes. They then got to discuss
their experience of the concert together with the musican for exactly
15 minutes, when the next group arrived.
styling/photography
press photos for rock band Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra 2006
styling/photography
press photos for rock band Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra 2007
object photography
photos of historic costumes for the exhibition Details, Royal Swedish Opera 2007
styling/photography
photo project in collaboration with Brandon Smith & Amelia Dombrowski, Brooklyn 2005
styling/photography
photo project in collaboration with Brandon Smith & Amelia Dombrowski, Brooklyn 2005
styling/photography
photo project, Stockholm 2000
hair photography
photo for hair and makeup artist Sara Stode, Björn Axén Institute 2006
styling/photography
photos for Dynamit! food and music 2007
styling/photography
portrait and business card for Dynamit! food & music, Stockholm 2007
styling/photography
press photo for rock band Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra 2005
EP-cover and promo material
album design, posters, flyers etc for Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra 2006
CD-cover
album design for Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra 2007
CD-cover
album design for Dexter Jones’ Circus Orchestra 2009
Pins
illustrations for Dexter Jones´Circus Orchestra 2007
Illustrations
various illustrations 2007-2009