Ingrid Berger Myhre is a Norwegian choreographer and performer based in Brussels. Her work explores how dance is read, and how language shapes what we see.
Her practice has developed from performing into making, and is shaped by a sustained interest in language, literacy, and semiotics. Rather than treating choreography as fixed form, she approaches it as a system of signs - something that can be written, spoken, interpreted, and played with.
Her work often begins in play: through scores, games, and rule-based structures that generate material and expose how meaning is constructed. Precision and humor are central tools in this process, allowing her to move between clarity and confusion, instruction and imagination.
Her artistic trajectory unfolds along two interconnected lines. One centers on her ongoing collaboration with composer and sound artist Lasse Passage, where choreography and music are developed through close co-authorship. Their works move between concert, lecture, and performance, and include PANFLUTES AND PAPERWORK (2019) and NO DREAMS, NO GOLD (2025).
The other line follows her research into language and choreography, developed through works such as BLANKS (2017), IN OTHER WORDS (2021), and SPELLING SPECTACLE (2023). Here, she explores how movement can function as text, and how reading, writing, and interpretation become choreographic acts.
Her approach is shaped by studies in choreography at ex.e.r.ce (Choreographic Centre, Montpellier) and by further research on dance and literacy at the Research Studios at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.
She is currently developing TERMS & CONDITIONS, a new work that focuses on gesture and body language as sites of negotiation where meaning is continuously produced between bodies, words, and contexts. The work will premiere in March 2027.
Her work is produced by Caravan Production (Brussels), and she receives structural funding from Arts Council Norway. With the support of long-term funding, she is currently developing Foot Forward, a platform she initiated to extend her artistic practice beyond individual projects, bringing together a growing team of collaborators to support its long-term development.
“Underlying Myhre’s practice is a good mix between the comic and the philosophical; fits of laughter and critical thinking about the politics of seeing—something contemporary performance needs to keep the field edgy, thought-provoking, yet highly capable of engaging the audience"
Etcetera & The Theatre Times