Earlier works by Opera Mecatronica
(including a list of all 42 works)
Calligrammes (43 min)
Swedish Radio Choir at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, 2017
Carl Unander-Scharin, Åsa Unander-Scharin and Ludvig Elblaus
Beings & Ballads/ Varelser och Ballader (55 min)
Work based on Swedish Medieval tunes and contemporary poetry and technology.
Åsa Unander-Scharin, Carl Unander-Scharin, Ludvig Elblaus, Katarina Frostenson
Purcell on the Throat for iPhone (3 min)
Interactive aria performed with the Throat for iPhone at the Society for Artistic Research Symposium, 2014
Åsa Unander-Scharin, Carl Unander-Scharin, Ludvig Elblaus
Artificial Body Voices (55 min)
Opera Mecatronica in collaboration with epí and Klas B Wahl. Dans i Nord/ Danspoolen. Studio Acusticum, Piteå. 2011
Swanlake Revisited
Audience-interactive exhibition created in collaboration with epí. The Dance Museum, Stockholom, 2011
Electric Body Songs (40 min)
Opera performance with interactive technologies and new music. Reactorhall KTH and Liszt Academy Budapest, 2014
Svansjön (5 min)
Video/ Animation/ Film created in collaboration with The Flock/ Kerstin Grunditz. Commissioned by Musica Vitae. Performed in Växjö and Malmö, 2013 and 2014
Sing the Body Electric! (45 min)
Swedish Performing Arts Biennale, Jönköping 2013
Cape Town Opera, South Africa, 2013
Opera Mecatronica Live (45 min)
Interactive performance with five opera singers, produced by the University College of Opera in Stockholm, 2012
Stockholm Royal Opera 2012
Rotterdam Opera Days 2012
Opera Mecatronica – the first exhibition
The first version of the overall Opera Mecatronica concept was presented at the Reactor Hall, KTH in September 2010
Västerås Dance Festival 2011
Royal Swedish Opera 2012
Rotterdam Opera Days 2012
Olimpia (5 min)
Giant computer choreographed coloratura-marionette, 2010
Reactor Hall KTH, 2010
Rotterdam Opera Days, 2012
Robocygne (4 min)
Dancing Robotic Swan, 2010
Reactor Hall KTH, 2010
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, 2012
The Crystal Cabinet (50 min)
Experimental Opera with three singers and two singing dancers, chamber orchestra and Opera Mecatronica technologies
Desire, Chaos and Geometry (27 min)
Version I: Skulpturen hus, Stockholm, 1998
Version II: Vietnam National Opera Balet, Hanoi, 2008 and 2009
Rintrah Roars – the argument
Audience interactive video installation
Swedish Dance Biennale, Umeå 2008
Clarion Hotel, Stockholm 2008
Yokohama Dance Recollection, Japan, 2009
60.01.60 (60 min)
Stage performance for six dancers, by Åsa Unander-Scharin in collaboration with composer Håkan Lidbo, video artist Anders Weberg and costume designer Nakkna
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Hybrid, Creatures and Labyrinths
Dance and music performance with four dancers, one tenor, two rats, The Throat and The Charged Room
Cantos Sagrados
Dance solo performed by Åsa Unander-Scharin with the Barent´s Chamber Choir
Luleå Domkyrka, 2005
Hedvig Eleonora Kyrka, 2005
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Exhibition including several interactive installations
Malmö Konsthall, 2004
The Dance Museum, Stockholm 2005
Art galleries and museums in Eskilstuna, Skellefteå, Örebro, 2005
Art galleries and museums in Hudiksvall, Västerås and Luleå 2006
Studio Acusticum, Piteå 2007
This is the Nucleus – in the Vocal Chorder
An interactive newly composed operatic aria performed with a novel artist-operated instrument
Petrusjka (34 min)
Dance performance to Stravinskij´s music with three dancers, and the pianist Roland Pöntinen
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, 2003
Des pas sur la neige (33 min)
Dance performance to Débussy´s music with five dancers, and the pianist Roland Pöntinen
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, 2003
Elevation (8 min)
Dance film with five dancers, produced by the Swedish Television, 2003
Qivittoq (30 min)
Dance and music performance by and with Åsa and Carl Unander-Scharin
Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm. 2002
Circles in Hypercube (17 min)
Dance work by Åsa Unander-Scharin with music by Håkan Lidbo – for four dancers and one puppeteer.
Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, 2002
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2002
Huddinge, 2005
Lasciatemi morire – with the Virtual Viola da Gamba
Artist-operated accompanied operatic aria for singer/ dancer and the custom-built instrument
Moderna Dansteatern, 2002
Dans Dj:s (27 min)
Dance peformance by Åsa Unander-Scharin for three dancers and Charged Room. Music by Carl Unander-Scharin and Klas B Wahl
Västerås Dance Festival 2002
Stockholm Arts & Science festival at Kulturhuset, 2002
Zebra-dans/Rosenlundsteatern, Stockholm 2002
SALTO! Festival in Malmö 2003
Tour to Hässeleholm, Kristianstad, Oxie, Hudiksvall, Ljusdal, Bollnäs and Söderhamn, 2003
Patterns, Thought and Empty Space (60 min)
Interactive dance work for four dancers, live electronic musicians and custom-built technologies
Fragmente (10 min)
Dance solo to music by Makoto Shinohara (1968) performed by Åsa Unander-Scharin (dance) and Kerstin Frödin (tenor recorder)
Växjö Concert Hall, 1999
Vilnius Dance Festival, Lithuania 2000
Galleri Forum, Stockholm 2001
Pustervik Theatre, Gothenburg 2001
Dance Museum, Stockholm 2002
ELD-lab, Stockholm 2004
Mälardalen university, Eskilstuna 2005
Studio Acusticum, Piteå 2017
Uppsala Universitet 2018
The Perspective of Orpheus (55 min)
Dance and music performance together with the baroque ensemble Fortezza
Växjö Concert Hall 1999
Vilnius Dance Festival, Lithuania 2000
Galleri Forum, Stockholm 2001
The Dance Museum, Stockholm 2002
SecurityNumberDances/ PersonNummerDanser
Interactive screen dance created in Motographicon, The Dance Museum 1998, Malmö Dance Festival 1999, Handelshögskolan 1999, Moderna dansteatern 2001
Possente Spirto (4,50 min)
Video dancer and computer animated dancers created in Motographicon
Internet distribution at Web Stage 1997
Veckans länk kulturnät Sverige
International Dance and Technology conference, Arizona State University 1999
Malmö Dance festival 1999
Handelshögskolan in Stockholm 1999
Elpub99, Gothenburg1999
Interactive Institute/CID/KTH Artnode 199
Italienska kulturinstitutet 1999
Monaco Dance Forum 2000
Junge hunde-festival 2001, Utrecht 2001
Danserotation, 13 cities in Denmark 2001
Kvinnor Kan konferens, Stockholm 2007
Studio Acusticum i Piteå 2008
…entendre encore… (30 min)
Stage performance,
Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm 1996
Dansens Hus, Stockholm 1996
Dansstationen, Malmö 1996
Nobel Banquet
Site specific choreography by Åsa Unander-Scharin with five dancers – commissioned by the Nobel Prize Foundation
Stockholm City House and Swedish television, 1995
Spelsinnetur/ Rörelsemelodier
Choreographic installations – solos and duets performed by five dancers
Dansens Hus 1994
Galleri Ragnar Pers, Gärsnäs 1995
Science Festival Aula Magna Stockholms Universitet 1998
Brommaplan 1998
Skulpturens Hus as part of Cultur capital of Europe, 1998
Nationalstadsparken 1998
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseets 1999
Akademiska Forum 1999
Pumpgropen/ The Pump Cavity (50 min)
Multi media stage performance
Dansens Hus, Stockholm 1992
Fakiren, Malmö 1994
Turku Dance Festival, Finland 1994
Dansescenen in Copenhagen, Denmark 1994