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# Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt

Norwegian Contemporary Dance since 1992

## Sidor

- [Choreographic works for other companies](https://ingunbp.no/choreographic-works-for-other-companies/) - Awards Choreographic for other companies Curriculum vitae SONETT IDIOT (2024) Commissioned by Nagelhus Schia Productions, Bærum, Norway München-trilogien 2019 commissioned by the Norwegian National Ballet, Oslo, Norway Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Mahlermembran 2017 commissioned by the Norwegian National Ballet, Oslo, Norway Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Orfila 2014 commissioned by Göteborgoperans danskompani, Gothenburg, Sweden. Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Daphne & Chloe
- [Book](https://ingunbp.no/book-2/) - Order book here: https://www.solumbokvennen.no/products/gjennom-koreografi The anthology "Through Choreography" takes a closer look at key elements of Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt's aesthetics, methods and circuit of motives, characterized by the close collaboration between the choreographer, the dancers and composers. “In the book “Through Choreography” we get an important and relevant insight to choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard´s work as
- [Music](https://ingunbp.no/music-sound-light/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Composers Rolf Wallin is one of the foremost contemporary Nordic composers, widely performed and commissioned internationally. His musical background spans from jazz, avant-garde rock and early music to traditional classical training, and this versatility is reflected in an exceptionally many-faceted list of compositions. Wallin’s compositional output covers a wide
- [Book](https://ingunbp.no/book/)
- [Behind stage](https://ingunbp.no/behind-stage/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Stage and costume design Thomas Björk Stage design, video and costume design, born 1966 in Sweden. Educated as an artist at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen Denmark and Kunstakademiet in Trondheim, Norway. Several exhibitions as an artist in Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and London. Thomas Björk has made several
- [Dancers](https://ingunbp.no/dancers/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Marianne Haugli studied modern and contemporary dance at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. After completing her studies, she has worked with Kjersti Alveberg, performing in the production @lice — a joint project of Riksteatret and Rikskonsertene, which toured the entirety of Norway. Her CV also includes working with
- [Lighting design](https://ingunbp.no/light-design/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Stage and costume design
- [Awards](https://ingunbp.no/awards/) - Awards Choreographic for other companies Curriculum vitae “Jomfruer i norsk landskap” Was awarded first prize at the Nordic Choreographer Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark 1992 “Alminnelig Olympia” Reached the finals at Rencontres Choréographiques Internationales de Bagnolet in Paris, France 1994 “Sleeping Beauty” Was awarded the Norwegian critique prize in 1995 “The Solitary Shame Announced by a
- [Curriculum Vitae](https://ingunbp.no/curriculum-vitae/) - Awards Choreographic for other companies Curriculum vitae Education 1982 – 1985 The National Norwegian College of Ballet 1985 – 1987 Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance 2019 Uncoordinated Dog, Dansens Hus, Oslo Munchentrilogien, National Ballet, Den Norske Opera & Ballet, Oslo 2018 A list of things he said, Dansens Hus, Oslo 2017 Notes on frailty
- [](https://ingunbp.no/1083/) - Uncoordinated Dog 10. October. World Premiere, Dansens Hus, Oslo 11. October, Dansens Hus, Oslo 12. October, Dansens Hus, Oslo 13. October, Dansens Hus, Oslo Notes on Frailty tour Norway, Dansenett 28. September, Dans/Porsgrunn 29. October, Sandnes 31. October, Haugesund 6. November, Hammerfest 27. November, Tromsø 30. November, Mo i Rana ------- "The four dancers are
- [General manager](https://ingunbp.no/general-manager/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Stage and costume design
- [2013](https://ingunbp.no/2013-2/) - 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Omega & the Deer April 22 RAS - Sandnes Kulturhus, Sandnes, Norway May 4 Lofoten Kulturhus, Svolvær, Norway September 19 Dansens hus Oslo,Norway September 27 & 28 Trøndelag Teater, Trondheim,Norway October 25 Open Stage Festival, Internationales Móscice Art Center, Tarnow, Poland ______________________ Sjøen September 24 &
- [2014](https://ingunbp.no/2014-2/) - 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Rotating Nora September 12,13,14,16 & 17 Dansen Hus, Oslo Norway ______________________ Praeambulum December 13 Ice Hot Festival, Dansens Hus, Oslo ______________________ Omega and the deer April 8 Pont-Chateau April 10 Haute-Goulaine April 12 Saint Bartelemy d`Ànjo Tour de France
- [Exempelsida](https://ingunbp.no/exempelsida/) - Detta är en exempelsida. Den skiljer sig från ett blogginlägg eftersom den är statisk och kommer att finnas på samma plats hela tiden, den kommer troligen att visas i din sidnavigering (i de flesta teman). De flesta börjar med en Om-sida som introducerar dem för potentiella besökare. Den skulle t.ex kunna ha följande innehåll: Hej
- [Sound design](https://ingunbp.no/sound-design/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Stage and costume design
- [2009](https://ingunbp.no/2009-2/) - 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Poppea May 8 Dansens Hus Norway
- [2010](https://ingunbp.no/2010-2/) - 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Poppea December 3 ICEHOT festival Nordic Platform Stockholm, Sweden
- [2011](https://ingunbp.no/2011-2/) - 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Omega and the deer October 17 & 18 Norwegian Opera House, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival Norway ______________________ November 9 DanseFestival Barents Hammerfest, Norway
- [2012](https://ingunbp.no/2012-2/) - 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Sjøen September 24 & 25 Trøndelag teater, Trondheim Norway September 30 “AURA 22” Kaunas International Dance Festival, Lithuania November 22 & 23 Espacios Ibsen, Havana, Cuba ______________________ Omega and the Deer The Joyce SOHO Showcase (20 min excerpt )New York, U.S. 10.01.12 Dansens Hus, Oslo, Norway, 23.03.12 Dansens Hus,
- [On tour](https://ingunbp.no/on-tour/) - ON TOURdkfjs
- [Stage and Costume Design](https://ingunbp.no/stage-design/) - Dancers Music Behind stage Stage and costume design

## Produktioner

- [Gjenstand og fortvilelse (Object and Despair) (2025)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/gjenstand-og-fortvilelse-objects-and-despair-2025/) - The November world premiere of Gjenstand og fortvilelse (Object and despair) at Dansens Hus, Oslo and DansiT at Rosendal Teater, Trondheim was received with acclaim by audiences and critics: – “a fun, unpredictable and wild play with our different social roles,” according to Dagsavisen and in the terms of Scenekunst.no - “unmistakably Bjørnsgaardian, inventive, playful and precise.” Klassekampen stated that - “The
- [Hojotoho! (There's no place like home) (2021)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/hojotoho-2021/) - In this world premiere from Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Vanessa Baird’s paintings are used both as a jumping-off point and as a companion to newly composed music from Rolf Wallin and Tansy Davies. In a performance which sees Ingun Bjørnsgaard use Vanessa Baird’s paintings as a jumping off-point, we enter a room filled with tension. Unacknowledged conflicts
- [Seven Duets (2021)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/seven-duets/) - «It is this balance between recognizable yet ambiguous relational situations and an aesthetical realm that keeps you on guard, which in Seven Duets creates moments where Bjørnsgaard’s choreography and the humane chaos it generates really comes into its own.» Venke Sortland, Norsk Shakespearetidskrift «The movements are beautiful in a non-ambitious manner, and the way the
- [Uncoordinated Dog (2019)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/uncoordinated-dog-2019/) - Uncoordinated Dog, 1 min. Trailer from Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt on Vimeo. Uncoordinated Dog (2019) Two generations of dancers meet in the dynamics between the youthful and the middle-aged, between the latent coming of age and the improper. Here Ingun Bjørnsgaard explores the personal, the ambiguous, exposure and beauty. The work is inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's
- [Sleeping Beauty (1994) (2001) (2018 remake)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/sleeping-beauty-1994/) - Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty (1994) by Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt and Zakras Dansekompani. Sleeping Beauty premiered at Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden, played at BIT Teatergarasjen i Bergen and Black Box Teater, Oslo and toured later with the National Touring Company (12 performances), tour premiere at Lillehammer. Ingun Bjørnsgaard received the Norwegian Critics Award for Sleeping Beauty. Credits Beate Grimsrud - lyrics Ingun Bjørnsgaard - Choreographer Johann Sebastian Bach
- [A list of things he said (2018)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/new-production-2018/) - A List of Things He Said A List of Things He Said explores masculine fragility in an ambiguous game between four performers, with Ingun Bjørnsgaard'sunique choreographic take on formal detail and everyday pathos. In a vaguely staged public space, the distinguished dancers come
- [Notes on Frailty (2017)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/notes-on-frailty-2017/) - "With IBPs 25th anniversary and the performance Notes on Frailty, Norwegian contemporary dance has reached a milestone." E. Høyland, Klassekampen "Sur fond de musique éthérée, tour à tour instrumentale ou mixée par Christian Wallumrød, les danseuses déclinent l’expression de la féminité, dans sa beauté et sa douleur. Les enchaînements des quatre performeuses sont d’une précision et
- [Praeambulum (2013)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/preambulum-2013/) - Premiere 31st of january 2013 Dansens Hus, Oslo, Norway With Praeambulum Bjørnsgaard has created an exemplary piece of work, which unites her strongest qualities: Great choreographic and musical knowledge paired with a wry look at gender, power and the most vulnerable of the deeply human. Sidsel Pape, scenekunst.no Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Composer: Henrik Hellstenius Dancers: Lone
- [Poppea (2009)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/poppea/) - Poppea is one of the strongest female characters of Antiquity: she who has fought her way up through the hierarchy to becoming the emperor’s wife. The woman’s power play is vulnerable and exposed in another manner than is the man’s. And what tension arises when the male appropriates the female, and femininity dons the mask
- [The Flux Position of an Insulted Eye (1995)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/the-flux-position-of-an-insulted-eye/) - Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Dancers – original cast: Sigrid Edvardsson, Arne Johan Hegdahl, Gry Kipperberg, Marius Kjos, Terje Tjøme Mossige, Caroline Wahlström Nesse, Halldís Ólafsdóttir Music: J.S. Bach, J.Chr.F. Bach, W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Rolf Wallin Stage design/costumes: Olav Myrtvedt Light design: Asbjørn Johnsen Light adaptation: Jean Vincent Kerebel Sound design: Morten Pettersen Executive producer: Snelle
- [The Solitary Shame Announced by a Piano (1997)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/the-solitary-shame-announced-by-a-piano/) - Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Dancers – original cast: Sigrid Edvardsson, Arne Johan Hegdahl, Gry Kipperberg, Marius Kjos, Terje Tjøme Mossige, Caroline Wahlström Nesse. Halldís Ólafsdóttir Original music: Rolf Wallin Stage design / costumes: Olav Myrtvedt Light design: Jean Vincent Kerebel Sound design: Morten Pettersen Dramaturgist: Mårten Spångberg Executive producer: Snelle Hall Produced by: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
- [Pli à pli (1998)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/pli-a-pli/) - "pli à pli is Ingun Bjørnsgaard’s third journey into the periphery of the Western mind. Through poignant images and dramatic subtlety Ingun Bjørnsgaard depicts our minor defects, shortcomings and embarrassments. The Flux Position of an Insulted Eye (1996) explored the point of view of a third excluded party; The Solitary Shame Announced by a Piano
- [The Afternoon and The Others (2000)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/the-afternoon-and-the-others/) - "The Faun – and its many successors – as realized by Stephen Mallarmé, is a creature that lives the sunny day to its fullest, and yet each evening seems to experience a sorrowful sense of wanting further, pain-filled pleasure. In melancholy, we come to the point where the wanting occurs almost simultaneously with the evolvement
- [Capricorn Domestic (2002)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/capricorn-domestic/) - Premiered October 3, 2002 at Nationaltheatret (Amfiscenen) during the CODAcontemporary dance festival in Oslo. A beautiful castle made of cardboard is the setting for this ballet. Choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard and dancers Sigrid Edvardsson and Christopher Arouni investigate different possibilities of the duet and create movements devoid of organic exits. In the dance they achieve a
- [Four Pieces including Sjoa and Skjåk (2004)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/four-pieces-including-sjoa-and-skjak/) - World premiere at the TanzBremen dance festival 6 March 2004 Norwegian premiere at the New Norwegian Theatre, Oslo, 16 March 2004 A fresh look at the relationship between the sublime and the ordinary. The ballet surprises by evoking unusual associations and rapid changes of mood, rhythm and choreographic language. Three male and two female dancers
- [Ext. Trapp. Kveld. (2010)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/ext-trapp-kveld/) - Octoberdance 2010 An outdoor performance in Bergen 2010. Dancers: Mattis Herman Nyquist & Ida Wigdel. Choreographer: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Produced by: Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
- [Book of Songs (2002)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/book-of-songs/) - “A man tries to convince a woman that they met last year at Marienbad and that she promised him then that she would leave her husband and run away with him. However, she doesn’t seem to recall anything about either him or the promise and tells him that it must have been someone else. At
- [I det förflutna (Bygones) (2006)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/i-det-forflutna-bygones/) - The choreographer invites her audience into what is bygone, the flowing river of the past. The music of the lyre lures memories, neglected feelings and naked frailty to the fore. The dancers seek within themselves and give form to the flow. Interrupted movement creates shifts into new situations. What is bygone is brought back and
- [Sjøen/The Sea (2010)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/sjoen/) - Premiere September 30th 2010 Dansens Hus Norway Choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard has loosely based her work Sjøen (The Sea) on Henrik Ibsen’s world famous Fruen fra havet (The Lady from the Sea (1888)). Ibsen’s text revolves around the theme of one of the first “modern“ women – a woman who in the crossfire between conventions and
- [Verklärte Nacht (2011)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/verklarte-nacht/) - What happens when the musicians interact with the dancers? Will music and dance be perceived as equal? This performance explores the balance between these two art forms. Arnold Schönberg´s Verklärte Nacht together with music by J.S. Bach and Rolf Wallin is the musical foundation. Bjørnsgaard weaves her dancers in and out of the musical movements
- [Omega and the deer (2011)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/omega-and-the-deer-2011/) - Premiere October 17th 2011. The Norwegian Opera & Ballet CODA Oslo International Dance Festival. Ingun Bjørnsgaard often stages her fumbling, brutal and beautiful characters as they are crossing the boundary between restraint and spectacle. In Omega and the Deer they get lost in such a place, on the way to the forest, taken prisoner by
- [Rotating Nora (2014)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/rotating-nora/) - Premiere September 12th 2014 Dansens Hus Norway Ingun Bjørnsgaard takes playful hold of Henrik Ibsen’s most renowned female character Nora ("A Dolls House"). One of Scandinavia’s foremost choreographers continues her deconstructive and liberating investigation on iconic dramatic works. "Extraordinarily redeemed and mature – while at the same time fresh as dew." - Chris Erichsen, scenekunst.no
- [Golden Fleece (2016)](https://ingunbp.no/portofolio/golden-fleece/) - Golden Fleece (trailer) from Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt on Vimeo. Golden Fleece Premiered January 28th 2016, at Dansens Hus, Oslo, Norway January 28-31, 2016 In Golden Fleece, the figures apparently move freely around, in a space between, in transit, between meaning and non-meaning. They are on their way somewhere, and from something. They are governed by