
MEMORY MANTLE
LE MANTEAU MEMOIRE
How do we carry our past?
How are we marked by the people we have met?
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Creation of a Memory Mantle with French artist Anne Bothuon for a dancing performance and exhibition
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Concept & sculptures:
Anne Bothuon
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Costume:
Calypso Michelet
Dancer:
Edith Lienard
MEMORY MANTLE
LE MANTEAU MEMOIRE
How do we carry our past?
How are we marked by the people we have met?
​
Creation of a Memory Mantle with French artist Anne Bothuon for a dancing performance and exhibition
​
Concept & sculptures:
Anne Bothuon
​
Costume:
Calypso Michelet
Dancer:
Edith Lienard
[...] the costuming is perfect. This writer's late mother, a professional theater costumer, believed that the costume should tell the audience who the character is the moment that they walk on stage.
Calypso Michelet's designs do this perfectly.
The Triangle Review
Mlima's Tale by Lynn Nottage
Burning Coal Theater Company
I could write a 10 page paper on the set (designed by Calypso Michelet) because of its attention to detail. There were outlets and wall switches and napkin holders, and everything was so perfectly put in place to highlight our story, right down to the hot pink aprons. It was perfect.
Calypso Michelet’s costumes are excellent, providing a clear sense of period and personality for the four distinctively different women.
As a Set and Costume designer, Calypso's artistic abilities are not only exemplary but her unique sensibility has also led her to uncover the depths of complex modern and contemporary texts as well as the Classics.
Claire de Liso,
Theater and Film designer
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The approachable, all-too-familiar, yet distinct worldbuilding of the titular trendy cafe arises from the genius of scenic & costume designer Calypso Michelet [...] Glowing and smoking, from foreboding to ferocity, Michelet’s set masters machinal metaphor.
The scene is set once again by the Majestic’s uber-talented set designers, led by Calypso Michelet. For this show, we had the complete back view of a tenement house. A big tree looked like it had been rooted for a century on the stage, and the chain link fence out back all blended to create a very realistic scene, the home of this hard-working family in 1950s Pittsburgh.