Ingrid Berger Myhre

Chloe is leaning backwards, her hand covering her face in the middle of a dance. Only her upper body is visible, against a wrinkled brown paper backdrop.

In
Other
Words
2021

Is dance a language? And if so, how does it speak? IN OTHER WORDS explores the compatibility between dance and language, using rhetoric devices as compositional tools.

With the stage as page, the choreographic writing unfolds a physical discourse with its own syntax, grammar and vocabulary. But what conditions these dance utterances? And what does it mean to read dance? In other words, if we are not seeking meaning, how do we sense the making of sense when watching this dance?

Choreography: Ingrid Berger Myhre in collaboration with Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Chloe Chignell and Thomas Bîrzan

Performed by Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Chloe Chignell, Thomas Bîrzan/Calvin Ferdinando Carrier and Ingrid Berger Myhre

In conversation with Bojana Cvejić

Sound design: Lasse Passage

Light design: Dominique Pollet

Scenography: Edwin Kolpa

Production: Caravan Production

Funded by Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC)

Co-production: Black Box Teater Oslo, SPRING Festival, Dansateliers Rotterdam, MDT Stockholm

Residencies: Kunstencentrum BUDA, Dansateliers Rotterdam, Kunstencentrum KAAP, STUK Kunstencentrum, Pianofabriek

Supported by Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) and P.A.R.T.S. Research Studios ’17-’18

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Previously

  • 31 March 2023
    MDT, Stockholm (SE)
  • 30 March 2023
    MDT, Stockholm (SE)
  • 2 February 2023postponed
    STUK, Leuven (BE)
  • 2 December 2022
    Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
  • 24 November 2022
    Regional Arena for Samtidsdans, Sandnes (NO)
  • 28 April 2022
    CC Ter Vesten, Beveren (BE)
  • 30 March 2022
    Stadsschouwburg, Kortrijk (BE)
  • 18 March 2022
    KAAP, Bruges (BE)
  • 27 January 2022
    Black Box Teater, Oslo (NO)

  • "The performance beautifully shows how relative the truth of the moving body is, and how bound it normally is to the frameworks of language. ...imagination and representation become an ingenious and cheerful game in In Other Words, in which perspectives and relationships can be blown up to enormous proportions. then to end up as a micro world in the palm of a hand.”

    Fransien van der PuttTheaterkrant (NL)

  • "Choreographic wit comes supported by a swift dramaturgic rhythm, composing their experiments around dance and language (…) This plane is the dancers’s playground in In Other Words. And they certainly do play.”

    Jordi Ribot ThunnissenSpringback Magazine

  • “…imagination and representation become an ingenious and cheerful game in In Other Words, in which perspectives and relationships can be blown up to enormous proportions, then to end up as a micro world in the palm of a hand.”

    Fransien van der PuttTheaterkrant

  • “The project is sympathetic, there is a generally good and light atmosphere in the room. It is pleasant to be there, and several of the sequences are genuinely festive.”

    Julie Rongved AmundsenKlassekampen

  • “While clichés like ‘dance is the language of the soul’ continue to burden us with the idea that moving, feeling and thinking are separate phenomena, dance lives on as a very articulate and – also rationally – clever language. (…) This plane is the dancers’s playground in In Other Words. And they certainly do play.”

    Jordi Ribot ThunnissenMovement Exposed Critical Space
  • Pablo is doing a handstand, only his plue pants and sneakers visible in the frame, against a brown wrinkled paper backdrop.
    Photo: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
  • Pablo is halfway into the frame against a brown wrinkled paper backdrop. His hands are stretched out and in focus.
    Photo: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
  • Ingrid is dancing, is wearing a red shirt, jeans and a blue adidas jacket. Her torso is visible against a brown wringkled paper backdrop.
    Photo: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
  • Ingrid, Thomas and Chloe are in the frame performing hand gestures in front of a brown wrinkled paper backdrop.
    Photo: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
  • Ingrid is in the middle of the fram holding both hands up showing the middle finger. Thomas, Pablo and Chloe are pointing at different parts of her gesture from three different angles. The atmosphere is humorous.
    Photo: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
  • Chloe is in the middle of the frame against a brown wrinkled paper backdrop. He is gesturing her hands in front of her face, covering her eyes.
    Photo: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker

Photos by: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker