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Spelling Spectacle
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Choreographer Ingrid Berger Myhre comes back to SPRING. Spelling Spectacle is a game where three performers navigate a meticulously devised, yet playful, plan. Sparkling with intelligence and humour, they stage an attempt to look for pitfalls in logic. Should we look at what is in front of us, or see through?
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.
With “if, then” as its 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 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.
https://www.caravanproduction.be/artists/ingrid-berger-myhre
Review
Javier López Piñón in Theaterkrant on Spelling Spectacle: “This performance’s funny incursions and incongruous transitions excite the imagination and stimulate the powers of observation.” Read the full review here.
“Underlying Myhre’s practice is a good mix between the comic and the philosophical; fits of laughter and critical thinking about the politics of seeing—something contemporary performance needs to keep the field edgy, thought-provoking, yet highly capable of engaging the audience"
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Ingrid Berger Myhre
Credits
Choreography: Ingrid Berger Myhre
In collaboration with: Nicola Gunn and Ida Wigdel
Performed by: Nicola Gunn, Ida Wigdel and Ingrid Berger Myhre
Music: Lasse Passage Light design: Ryoya Fudetani
Scenography: Oshin Albrecht Costume
Design: Signe Vasshus
Advice: Thomas Bîrzan, Eirik Blekesaune
Thanks to: Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Ashley Ho, Calvin Ferdinando Carrier, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold
Production: Caravan Production
Coproduction: Dansateliers (Rotterdam, NL), Kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels, BE), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen, NO), Rosendal Teater (Trondheim, NO), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (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, Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, The Flemish Community, The Flemish Community Commission
Photo credits: Tale Hendnes
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