InOtherWords2021
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
Trailer
Watch TrailerBehind the scenes
SPRING Festival Utrecht 2021
Watch Behind the scenesInterview
Spring Festival Utrecht 2020
Watch Interview
Previously
- 15 October 2024STUK, Leuven (BE)
- 31 March 2023MDT, Stockholm (SE)
- 30 March 2023MDT, Stockholm (SE)
- 2 February 2023postponedSTUK, Leuven (BE)
- 2 December 2022Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
- 24 November 2022Regional 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 AmundsenKlassekampenWith 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