Casting Traces 

‘Casting Traces’ is a performance where I applied the concept of ‘demanding props’. The performance came about in collaboration with the dance group New Movement Collective and was performed at Testbed 1 in Battersea. An old converted dairy factory, owned by architect Will Alsop and artist Bruce McLean. We built the entire theatre space as a wear-and-tear design of newsprint paper, and manipulated how the audience moved around in the paper maze occupying the room amidst the dancers. We studied the architecture in one-t o-one, identifying what props attracted people and what props kept people away, and we observed what slight changes in the design that turned a barrier in to a threshold and a threshold into a barrier In August 2013 we put up Casting T races up in the old brewery Carlsberg Byen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Summer 2014 New Movement Collective and I expanded our production of Casting Traces to 3 different locations in England: Olaf Street (Shepherds Bush/London), Circus Street Market (Brighton) and Guild Hall (Winchester)  The performance got 5 stars in the Observer by Luke Jennings.

Photos Maja Ny dal Eriksen

London UK, Copenhagen DK, Brighton and Winchester UK, 2012-14