Ingrid Berger Myhre

Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld

Chloe Chignell

Thomas Bîrzan

In Other Words

four people (two crouched, two standing) against a white background

Photo: Tale Hendnes

Th 30.3.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 31.3.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT

Is dance a language? And if so, how does it speak? "In Other Words" explores the compatibility between dance and language using rhetoric devices as compositional tools. With the stage as page, choreographic writing unfolds a physical discourse, with its own syntax, grammar and vocabulary. But what is it that conditions these dance utterances? And what does it mean to read dance? In other words, if we are not seeking meaning, how do we sense the making of sense when watching this dance?

With wit, charm and sophistication Ingrid Berger Myhre’s relativising take on “dance” as we know it comes together in unpretentious and humorous performances. In her new performance "In Other Words", she continues her play with the capacities and shortcomings of language - using it as a scaffold for dance as poetic expression.

Critical Acclaim for "In Other Words" ...

“The performance beautifully shows how relative the truth of the moving body is, and how bound it normally is to the frameworks of language. (…) Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, Chloe Chignell and Thomas Bîrzan, who created and dance the performance together with Berger Myhre, maintain an incredible openness in their presence. It gives the inevitability of the exercise an extra hilarious, dry comic power. “

- Fransien van der Putt, Theaterkrant

“While clichés like ‘dance is the language of the soul’ continue to burden us with the idea that moving, feeling and thinking are separate phenomena, dance lives on as a very articulate and – also rationally – clever language. (…) This plane is the dancers’s playground in "In Other Words". And they certainly do play.”

- Jordi Ribot Thunnissen, Movement Exposed Critical Space

“…choreographic wit comes supported by a swift dramaturgic rhythm, composing their experiments around dance and language (…) The four performers thus dance around the syntagmatic possibilities of this encounter, in an hour-long meta-performance which manages to remain light-hearted.”

- Jordi Ribot Thunnissen, Springback Magazine

Ingrid Berger Myhre

Ingrid Berger Myhre is a Norwegian choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. She holds an MA in Choreography; Research and Performance from ex.e.r.ce at the Choreographic Centre in Montpellier and later deepened her project literacy in dance at the Research Studio’s at P.A.R.T.S from ’17-’18. 

Since her 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. Her solo BLANKS (2017) and the duet PANFLUTES AND PAPERWORK (2019), a collaboration with Lasse Passage were both selected for Aerowaves, and has toured a number of venues in Europe and in Norway.

Ingrid's work is supported by the Advancing Performing Arts Project (APAP) network and Caravan Production in Brussels.

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Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld

Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld (Madrid, 1981) is a musician and choreographer. He holds a BA in Audiovisual Communication from UCM Madrid, a degree in Contemporary Dance from the RCPD Madrid and a diploma from Research Studios at P.A.R.T.S., Brussels. He often collaborates as a musician, performer and assistant with Alessandro Sciarroni.

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Chloe Chignell

Chloe Chignell is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Chloe takes the body as the central problem, question and location of her research. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up. She graduated from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S (BE, 2018) and went on to the post-master research program at A.pass (BE, 2020). She has a Bachelor in Dance from Victorian College of the Arts, (AU, 2013) and studied a writing and residency program at DOCH (SE, 2017). She received the DanceWEB scholarship in 2015.

Since 2019 Chloe co-runs rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens.  Her most recent work Poems and Other Emergencies premiered at Batard Festival Brussels 2020 and has been presented at Saal Biennale (Tallinn, 2021), Moving Words Festival (NO, 2021), QL2 (AU, 2022) and soon at KAAP (Bruges, 2022) and Littérature etc. (Paris 2022). Chloe has been commissioned by the Keir Choreographic (AU, 2016) for the creation of Deep Shine touring to Japan for The Awaji Art Festival. She presented a short work forever in both directions for the Venice Biennale’s Biennale of Dance (2017).

Chloe is the founder and co-editor of This Container magazine, a publication focusing on choreographic writing, currently in its 8thedition. She has developed choreographic writing and reading formats hosted by Kottinspektionen (Stockholm), PraxisFestivalen (Oslo), PAF (France) Scene:Bluss (Norway). She teaches the Masters of Choreography Students at ISAC. 

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Thomas Bîrzan

Thomas Bîrzan is a Franco-Romanian dance artist based in Brussels. After working as a performer for various companies in the South of France, he joined the P.A.R.T.S. Research Cycle 17-18. In parallel, Thomas is pursuing academic research on the relationship between text, dance and painting in contemporary francophone poetry. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature (McGill University, Montreal) and a Master 1 in Philosophy of Art (Université Paul-Valéry). He is currently completing his Master 2 in Modern and Contemporary Literature (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle).

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Choreography

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

In conversation with

Sound Design

Light Design

Scenography

Costume Design

Executive production

Caravan Production (BE)

Funders

Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, The Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region 

Co-production

SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), Black Box Teater (NO), Regional Arena for Samtidsdans (NO), MDT Moderna Dansteatern (SE), BUDA kunstencentrum (BE) in the frame of apap - FEMINIST FUTURES

Residencies

Black Box Teater (NO), BUDA kunstencentrum (BE), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), KAAP (Brugge, BE), Kunstenwerkplaats - KWP (BE), STUK (BE) 

Supported by

P.A.R.T.S. Research Studios ’17-’18, apap - advancing performing arts project

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