Ingrid, Nicola and Ida in a line on a white an grey stage. Their hands are twisting, covering their faces.

Spelling
Spectacle
2023

Spelling Spectacle is a game where 3 performers navigate a meticulously devised, yet playful, plan.

With each move, they peek into the immediate future, attempting to avoid the pitfalls of individual whims and stringent collectivism. By being loyal to the game rules, they risk steering into walls, hopelessly going in circles, missing their marks. By being loyal to their individual ideas, they risk sabotaging the collective effort. This productive dilemma drives the work forward.


The goal is to build the piece in real-time. Everything becomes material, as movement trajectories are woven thanks to coincidence and careful considerations. And as the map is drawn, the mysteries unfold.


Every next frame is the result of a previous stepping stone. 

Each stone carries the baggage of the ones before. 

In con-sequence, they spell out both the obvious and the magical:

The next step, the next room, the next door- continuously leaving one space to make another appear.

Choreography: Ingrid Berger Myhre

In collaboration with: Nicola Gunn and Ida Wigdel

Performed by: Nicola Gunn, Ida Wigdel and Ingrid Berger Myhre

Light design: Fudetani Ryoya

Scenography: Oshin Albrecht

Music: Lasse Passage

Costume design: Signe Vasshus

Advice: Thomas Bîrzan, Eirik Blekesaune

Thanks to: Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Yuhan Ashley Ho, Calvin Ferdinando Carrier, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold

Production: Caravan Production

Co-production: Kunstencentrum BUDA, BIT Teatergarasjen, Rosendal Teater, Dansateliers Rotterdam

Residencies: STUK kunstencentrum, Pianofabriek, Kaaitheatre, Kunstencentrum KAAP, Tanzfabriek Üferstudios Berlin

Financed by: Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Vlaamse Gemeenschap

Co-produced by Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) - FEMINIST FUTURES - a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union

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Previously

  • 6 April 2024
    Rosendal Teater, Trondheim (NO)
  • 5 April 2024
    Rosendal Teater, Trondheim (NO)
  • 19 March 2024cancelled
    AINSI, Maastricht (NL)
  • 15 March 2024
    NONA, Mechelen (BE)
  • 14 March 2024
    STUK, Leuven (BE)
  • “The choreographer Myhre, part of the trio, looks at ways of translating into action how a spectacle is constructed and how its components makes up a coherent whole. It’s not really dance, nor mime. Gestures and positions solely produce signifiers without signified, even implicitely."

    Michael VoiturierWebtheatre.fr

Photos by: Tale Hendnes, Paul Sixta