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

Videos

Previously

  • 15 October 2024
    STUK, Leuven (BE)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • It's a true gem not to be missed.

    Marina Srnkapzazz
  • "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
  • With serene joyfulness, alongside her fellow co-performers Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Chloe Chignell and Thomas Bîrzan, Berger Myhre refreshes the contemporary dance stage with a simple but witty performance where words dance, and bodies articulate our imagination.

    Marina Srnkapzazz theater (BE)
  • “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

Photos by: Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker