In Object and Despair, Ingun Bjørnsgaard examines everyday situations and human fallibility, in close collaboration with dancers Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Ludvig Daae and Edith Strand Askeland.
The three experienced dancers have worked together in several performances by the choreographer, and have developed a common reflection that enables deeper movement-based exploration of the ambiguous and the vulnerable related to a visual dramaturgy.
By means of various literary and aesthetic references, new spaces for choreography related to relational trials and tribulations are explored. Methodologically, literal recipes of conduct from the Scandinavian 1960s, create opportunities for further exploration of designated ways of moving and behaving seemingly correctly.
The many pitfalls of uncertainty and shame in any situation are at stake, as well as the humane longing for clearer solutions in our time of great complexity. And at the same time, irrationality becomes all the more striking in the work’s investigations of human control and frailty.
Well-composed sculptural structures of movement create ambiguity and dynamics in the staged space. Construction and deconstruction of various tableaux vivants become part of the many layers of the performance.
The trio format opens up to the syncopated and uncoordinated in a private space where there are limited possibilities for movements that seem appropriate. Instead, the imperfect becomes a separate idiom in Ingun Bjørnsgaard’s choreographic universe.
As always with Bjørnsgaard, the choreographic work is developed in close connection between movement and music, and in Object and Despair she collaborates for the first time with Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal.
https://www.dansenshus.com/forestillinger/ingun-bjornsgaard-prosjekt-helena
Dansens Hus, Oslo
Main stage
Then the performance will tour towards Trondheimand be presented as part of DansiT´s program, played at Rosendal Teater:27. november28. november
Choreographer
Ingun Bjørnsgaard
Dancers
Catharina Vehre Gresslien
Edith Strand Askeland
Ludvig Daae
Stage design
Thomas Björk
Composer
Jan Martin Smørdal
Costume design
Solveig Holthe Bygdnes
Lighting design
Hans Skogen
Sound design
Morten Pettersen
