Metamorphoses from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.
A contemporary interpretation of Ovid's narrative poem
Bolshoi Theatre Minsk, 2012
Staging and Choreography: Volha Kastsel
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Featuring opera and ballet soloists and artists of Bolshoi Minsk
http://belarusopera.by/en/calendar-567

Caution Fragile from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.
Trade Unions' Culture Palace in Minsk, 2011
Staging and choreography: Volha Kastsel

Feel like a star....broadcast yourself...Because we’re worth it... Following your own rules...One of the greatest pleasures you can have...Sheer Driving Pleasure...Start the day with great taste...Smooth out your day, every day...Coffee Indulgence...

These are by no means just marketing taglines but the real guiding themes for designing our everyday lives. A wide range of assistants are boosting our pleasure mechanisms: proliferating therapies are keeping us beautiful and young, WEB 2.0 lets us be our own spin doctors, personality matchings are selecting our loved ones in order to eradicate all relationship imperfections. But where is this blind designing of our delightful existence going to lead us to? If we don’t see the others but only ourselves?

Belarusian national TV about Methamorphoses from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.

Belarusian TV coverage on SYPEMEDA (Stage for Young Performing and Media Artists) from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.
SYPEMEDA (Stage for Young PErforming and MEDia Artists) seeks to enhance the access of young artists to platforms for artistic expression. The project brought together two artistic disciplines (Performing and Media Arts) having promising perspectives to enhance each other mutually. Early adoption examples such as the use of the Musion Eyeliner System to integrate 3D holographic cartoons on stage during the MTV Awards 2005 in Lisbon and the holographic 3D technology showing Kate Moss floating during the Alexander McQueen runway show 2006 are evidence for the attractiveness of combining media and performing arts in an innovative way.

Author, artistic director and coordinator of SYPEMEDA: Volha Kastsel
 http://sypemeda.chasqui.eu/

Coppelia 2 from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.

Coppelia 2, 2010
National Theatre Sofia, Arabesque Contemporary Dance Company
Music: Léo Delibes
Choreography and libretto: Volha Kastsel

TV coverage of Coppelia - Theatre Sofia

bnt coppelia from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.

The Unusual Suspects from Volha Kastsel on Vimeo.

The Unusual Suspects, 2008
National Theatre Sofia, Arabesque Contemporary Dance Company
Music: Arne Sanders
Choreography and libretto: Volha Kastsel