Ingrid Berger Myhre har bemerket seg med å trekke høytravende abstrakte problemstillinger ned på et humoristisk, fornøyelig og intelligent dansenivå, enten det har handlet om hvordan forventninger skaper mening til det vi ser, som i Blanks, eller sammenlikninger mellom dans og musikk, som i Panflutes and Paperworks. 

At hun nå gjør en forestilling om språk er ikke overraskende. Både teoretikere og danserne, og spesielt programtekster som flotter seg, snakker jo gjerne om dans som et språk. Hvordan kan de si det? Og hvis dansen er et språk, hvordan snakker dans? Dans er jo på alle måter mer sanselig, konkret, virkelig og nærværende enn språket, men kan hverken argumentere, analysere eller kontekstualisere. Dansen kan ikke si hva den gjorde i går, og språket kan ikke løfte foten. 

In Other Words tar sammenlikningen helt bokstavelig. Forestillingen leker seg med forskjellig koplinger og overganger mellom dans og språk. Språkets virkemidler og regler brukes som dramaturgiske grep og ramme for bevegelsene. Konjunksjoner binder bevegelsene sammen til humoristiske og tankevekkende setninger. Med scenen som et blankt ark, utvikler den koreografiske skriften etterhvert en fysisk diskurs med sin egen syntaks, grammatikk og ordforråd. Hvilke sammenhenger spiller inn på disse danseytringene? Hva får de oss til å se? Og hva menes med å lese dans? In Other Words ser på språkets muligheter og begrensninger, og viser dansens poetiske potensial.

Choreography Ingrid Berger Myhre in collaboration with Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Chloe Chignell and Thomas Bîrzan 

Performed by Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Chloe Chignell, Thomas Bîrzan and Ingrid Berger Myhre 

In conversation with Bojana Cvejić

Sound design Lasse Passage 

Light design Dominique Pollet 

Scenography Edwin Kolpa 

Production Caravan Production

Funded by Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, The Flemish Community Commission (VGC) Co-production Black Box Teater (NO), SPRING Festival (NL), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), MDT Stockholm (SE) Residencies: BUDA Kortrijk (BE), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), KAAP Bruges (BE), STUK Leuven (BE), Pianofabriek (BE) Supported by Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap), P.A.R.T.S. Research Studios ’17-’18.

Special thanks to Bojana Cvejić and all the participants of Research Studios '17-'18 for their helpful and supportive conversations. 

In Other Words was meant to premiere on the 28th-29th April 2020. Due to the corona outbreak, the production, premiere and tour has been rescheduled. The finished piece premiered at SPRING Festival in Utrecht on 21st and 22nd May 2021. 

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INGRID BERGER MYHRE is a Norwegian choreographer and performer currently 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 made commissions for Amsterdamse hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Conny Janssen Danst’s talent development initiative Danslokaal and is currently artist in residence at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen as part of the EU research project Dancing Museums II (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 upcoming 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.

Ingrid's work is supported by Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) – FEMINIST FUTURES – a
project co-founded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union and Caravan Production (BE).