
SpellingSpectacle2023
New work premiering at Dansens Hus, Oslo 20th October 2023 - about logic, consequence and possibility.
With “if, then” as undercurrent, the piece asks what a choreographic train of thought can be or look like. What conditions the following, and how? According to which givens does something make sense? And what does that say about the backdrop of our reading?
The alliterative words in the title Spelling Spectacle share a twofold meaning. They both evoke a sense of magic, in addition to their literary sense of reading or seeing: to spell as in decoding, or a spell as in a magical formula. A spectacle as something to be seen, and spectacles as something one sees through.
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
Sound design: Lasse Passage
Costume design: Signe Vasshus
Costume research/advice: Carly Rae Heathcote
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
Trailer
Watch TrailerIn rehearsal
Interview
Watch In rehearsalInterview
Meteor Festival 2023, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (NO)
Watch Interview
Upcoming
- 16 February 2024IceHot, More More More, Vega Scene, Oslo (NO)
- 12 March 2024Biekorf , Bruges (BE)
- 14 March 2024STUK, Leuven (BE)
- 15 March 2024NONA, Mechelen (BE)
- 19 March 2024AINSI, Maastricht (NL)
- 5 April 2024Rosendal Teater, Trondheim (NO)
- 6 April 2024Rosendal Teater, Trondheim (NO)
- 25 May 2024SPRING Festival, Utrecht (NL)
- 26 May 2024SPRING Festival, Utrecht (NL)
Previously
- 25 November 2023NEXT Festival, Valenciennes (FR)
“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
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