Ingun Bjørnsgaard´s New Choreography “Towards the Forest” at CODA
Towards the Forest, World Premiere 17.-18 October at CODA Oslo International Dance Festival.
Norway´s exceptional dance company Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt will come out with its new production “Towards the Forest” in October and tour in Germany in December. Save the dates!
Venue: Norwegian Opera House (Oslo)
9 Nov: DanseFestival (Barents)
There are always obscure spaces to be found where the city meets the forest. People often meet in such spaces during the period of transition between day and night
. Over the shoulder one can perhaps glimpse the lights from the houses behind, facing the dark forest. The forest is the fertile site for disappearance and resurrection, for ritual and decay. At this threshold, at the edge of the forest, transactions between human beings are often carried out: here sexuality is at stake, but also identity − in the transition between regulation and the unknown. Here social codes encounter bestiality.
Ingun Bjørnsgaard often stages her fumbling, brutish and beautiful characters in the moment of their transversing these bound aries between being restrained and the spectacular. Here they get lost in such a place, taken prisoner by their own shadows.
“A victory for Norwegian dance”
Choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard is an importantinnovator in the world of Scandinavian dance since1992, when she started her own dance company. Her productions soon won several international prices, which drew attention to her work in many European countries.
Choreographer
Ingun Bjørnsgaard
Dancers
Mattias Ekholm, Erik Rulin, Ida Wigdel, Matias
Rønningen, Marianne Haugli, Marta-Luiza Jankowska
Composers
Rolf Wallin and Tansy Davies
Set designer
Thomas Björk
Costume designer
Ane Aasheim
Lighting designer
Hans Skogen
Sound designer
Morten Pettersen
Dramaturg
Kai Johnsen
Produced by Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
IBP will debut in Asia with SJØEN (Sea) this month
. The Asian Première is planned to be held on 22 July at the Friendship Theatre, Guangzhou, China accompanied by diverse workshops.
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)).