Ingrid Berger Myhre

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: Ida Wigdel, Nicola Gunn/Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold 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

Videos

Upcoming

  • 15 October 2025
    Regional Arena for Samtidsdans, Sandnes (NO)Visit website

Previously

  • 21 December 2024
    Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
  • 18 December 2024
    Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)
  • 17 December 2024
    Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)
  • 11 October 2024
    Grand Theater, Groningen (NL)
  • 4 August 2024
    Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Munich (DE)
  • 26 May 2024
    SPRING Festival, Utrecht (NL)

  • “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

  • "The humorous ideas and incongruous transitions in this performance stimulate the imagination and enhance observational skills. They also elicit a smile"

    Javier López PiñónTheaterkrant (NL)

  • “Watching Ingrid Berger Myhre’s ‘Spelling Spectacle’ was to revel in feather light, artfully dosed slapstick humour laced though a rigorously ‘contemporised’ precept. A beautiful and seriously witty antidote to the over-garnished commercial Christmas circus ‘magic’ blaring outside. (...) Riveting, funny and frustrating all at the same time, it’s like the best of parlour games.“

    Oonagh DucksworthPzazz Theater

  • "In this simple game that unites the past and the future, our search for meaning is relativized in an endless flux of possibilities. (...) A clever and genuinely funny play with choreographic and narrative devices that toys with audience expectations."

    Marina SrankaSpringback Magazine
  • Ida, Ingrid and Nicola in a line on a white dance floor. They are in almost the same position with their arms stretch out facing the back wall.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Ingrid and Nicola are doing the same hand gesture looking at their fingers almost touching. Ida is looking at them over her shoulder.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Nicola, Ingrid and Ida are standing upright facing the back wall. They are doing almost the same hand gesture, their fingers almost touching.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Nicola, Ingrid and Ida are moving in a line in the far back of the photos. Ida and Ingrid and covered by a semi-transparant fringe curtain, only Nicola is fully visible.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Ingrid and Ida are doing almost the same gesture with a hand underneath their chin. They are laughing, Nicola is moving behind them.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Nicola is wearing a blue shirt, black shorts and one black rubber glove. She is bent over towards a suspended microphone, facing the back.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Ingrid is sitting on the floor in pale jeans and a colourful shirt. Around her are several mundane objects and she is managing a green rope.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Ida is leaning over a flight case, looking pensively outside the camera frame. She is half lit like the room around her.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Nicola is wearing a black rubber glove and is stretching it away from the camera. The room around her is lit up by a disco ball and two semi-transparant fringe curtains are suspended behind her.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Ingrid is wearing a blue rubber glove, that she is in the process of removing. She is wearing a colourful shirt and pale blue jeans, her face is only partly visible behind the glove and around her are some objects and a fringe curtain.
    Photo: Tale Hendnes
  • Ingrid, Nicola and Ida are dancing energetically and cheerfully against a grey backdrop.
    Photo: Paul Sixta
  • Ingrid and Nicola are facing each other in profile, talking - against a grey backdrop. In the background, Ida is dancing energetically. .
    Photo: Paul Sixta

Photos by: Tale Hendnes, Paul Sixta