Spelling Spectacle

Ingrid Berger Myhre ^{(Norway / Belgium)}

Minimum age 15+

60 minutes

Fri 24.11.23 Espace Pasolini Valenciennes

Sat 25.11.23 Espace Pasolini Valenciennes

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What if our bodies were potential alphabets ? For Ingrid Berger Myhre the stage is a blank page, and her body is the ink that fills it. Whether the Norwegian represents a running man with two swaying fingers or loudly twiddles a balloon ; dance is for her a theatrical and poetic language of signs.

In her new performance the choreographer wants to translate the stream of our thoughts into gestures together with dancers Nicola Gunn and Ida Wigdel. Spelling Spectacle is about logic, consequence and possibility. With 'if, then' as an underlying idea, Berger Myhre examines what a choreographic train of thoughts can look like. How does one movement follow from the other ? On the basis of which elements does something get meaning ? And what does this say about our way of reading ?

The title Spelling Spectacle contains two words that refer to reading or seeing but also evoke a feeling of magic. 'To spell' is to spell something out, but 'a spell' is a magic incantation ; 'spectacle(s)' is a spectacle to watch, or glasses to see.

With the support of apap, Feminist futures and Creative Europe, a programme of the European Union.

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Choreography: Ingrid Berger Myhre
In collaboration with: Nicola Gunn and Ida Wigdel
Performed by: Nicola Gunn, Ida Wigdel and Ingrid Berger Myhre
Sound Design: Lasse Passage
Light Design: Ryoya Fudetani
Scenography: Oshin Albrecht
Costume Design: Signe Vasshus
Design assistance/styling: Carly Rae Heathcote
Advice: Thomas Bîrzan, Eirik Blekesaune
Thanks to: Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Ashley Ho, Calvin Ferdinando Carrier, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold
Production: Caravan Production
Co-production: Dansateliers (Rotterdam, NL), Kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels, BE), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen, NO), Rosendal Teater (Trondheim, NO), SPRING (Utrecht, NL)
Residencies: KAAP (Brugge, BE), BUDA (Kortrijk, BE), Kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels, BE) Dansateliers (Rotterdam, NL), Tanzfabrik (Berlin, DE), fieldworks (Brussel, BE)

Supported by: Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) - FEMINIST FUTURES - a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union, Fonds Podiumkunsten
Financed by: Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, The Flemish Government, The Flemish Community Commission