Creating live art, like everything else in our lives, comes with surprises. Unfortunately, not all of them are positive. In the final stages of preparation for the premiere of Spelling Spectacle by Ingrid Berger Myhre, one of the performers was injured. This puts the preparations on hold and means that the performance cannot go on.
Ticket holders will be informed as soon as possible.
Spelling Spectacle is a performance about logic, consequence and possibility by Ingrid Berger Myhre, made and performed in collaboration with Nicola Gunn and Ida Wigdel.
The project is investigating generativ procedures, a series, sequence, pattern or set of premises asking for a continuation:
A cheap horse is rare.
What is rare is expensive.
A cheap horse is expensive.
The performance is built by means of different strings of logic that guide the choreographic material down various paths. With pragmatic curiosity the three performers jump from one stone to the next in a contingency game following reason, surfing the dramaturgy of association - trying to bridge precedence and consequence. What conditions the following, and how?
With “if, then” as undercurrent, the piece asks what a coherent choreographic train of thought can be or look like. How do we perceive coherency? According to which givens? And what does it say about the backdrop of our reading?
The title Spelling Spectacle is an alliteration in which the words share a twofold allusion. 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.
INGRID BERGER MYHRE (1987) is a Norwegian choreographer and performer based in Brussels. She holds an MA in Choreography; Research and Performance from ex.e.r.ce at the Choreographic Centre in Montpellier (FR) and later deepened her project on literacy in dance at the Research Studio’s at P.A.R.T.S.
Ingrid started out studying modern dance at Amsterdam School of the Arts (NL), and worked as a freelance dancer in the independent scene in the Netherlands and abroad in the following years, before she pursued her interest in choreography. Since her master studies, Ingrid has developed her work as associate artist at Dansateliers Rotterdam, and from 2019 - 2020 with the support of the Dutch Performing Arts Fund’s Nieuwe Makers Regeling.
She has been commissioned by Amsterdamse hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Conny Janssen Danst’s talent development initiative Danslokaal and was artist in residence at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen as part of the EU research project Dancing Museums II from 2019 - 2021.
Language and semiotics are central elements to Ingrid’s artistic work. She is motivated by questions around how we read and understand dance, especially in the context of the theatre. Her relativizing take on dance as we know it comes together in unpretentious and humorous performances. Her solo BLANKS (2017) and the duet PANFLUTES AND PAPERWORK (2019), a collaboration with Lasse Passage, introduced her work internationally. Both works were selected for Aerowaves, and has toured a number of venues in Europe and in Norway. In her most recent production IN OTHER WORDS (2021), she continues her play with the capacities and shortcomings of language - using it as a scaffold for dance as poetic expression. Her upcoming production SPELLING SPECTACLE (2023) will look at logic, consequence and possibility.
Ingrid's work is supported by Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) – FEMINIST FUTURES – a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union and Caravan Production (BE).
| Choreography | Ingrid Berger Myhre |
| In collaboration with: | Nicola Gunn and Ida Wigdel |
| Performers: | Nicola Gunn, Ida Wigdel and Ingrid Berger Myhre |
| Lichtingdesign | Estelle Gautier |
| Advice | Bojana Cvejic, Thomas Bîrzan, Eirik Blekesaune |
| Thanks to: | Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Ashley Ho, Calvin Ferdinano Carrier, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold |
| Executive production | Caravan Production |
| Co-production | BIT Teatergarasjen (NO), Rosendal Teater (NO), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), KUNSTENWERKPLAATS vzw (BE), SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL) |
| Residencies: | Tanzfabrik (DE), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), STUK (BE), KUNSTENWERKPLAATS vzw (BE), Kaaitheatre (BE), KAAP (BE), Kunstencentrum Buda (BE) |
| Supported by: | Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) - FEMINIST FUTURES - a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union |
| Financed by | Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Vlaamse Gemeenschap |
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