| Dear Colleagues, dear Friends,
We hope you had a wonderful summer! We are glad to start the new season 2012/13 and to present you Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt (IBP) on the International Tanzmesse NRW 2012, 30 August.
IBP is the only Norwegian contemporary dance company to show their production "Omega and the Deer" (2011) at the Tanzmesse, Tanzhaus NRW, Big Stage.
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 their own shadows. There is a framework, which outlines different spaces and directions for our movements: our body, our gender, our sense of belonging to a place, our sociability, our past. This entails the perceptions and contrasts that shape us and create movement, friction, despair and melancholy. The piece addresses the complex self-perception of the modern man, with references to the art of Edvard Munch.
AURA 22 Kaunas International Dance Festival, September 30
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt presents "Sjøen" (2010)
Ingun Bjørnsgaard on continues her distinctive investigation of dance theatre’s potential. "Sjøen" is loosely based on Henrik Ibsen’s world famous “The Lady from the Sea” (1888). Ibsen’s text revolves around the theme of one of the first “modern” women – a woman who moves beyond convention and modern liberation to become ensnared by drives that are simultaneously dangerous, repulsive and alluring. There are basic themes here which also characterize Bjørnsgaard’s expression: ambivalence, vague yearnings, the need to disappear, obscenity and superficial anxiety.
Produced by Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt
Supported by Arts Council Norway and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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