Together with dramatist Maria Tryti Venneroed, lightdesigner Ingeborg Olerud and danceartist Kristin Helgebostad, Berstad/Skar will create a room where the interplay between different bodies, sound and text will be the center of the reality that they are looking for. The artists wish to expand the moments that arises when the obvious is getting distorted and disassosiated through other action. The desire to get to a place where everything has become something else is driving the project.
Berstad/Skar consists of choreographer Ingeleiv Berstad and composer Julian Skar. In 2007 they started their experiments using technology as one of many ways of producing, recycling and reproducing movement and sounds.
Berstad/Skar idea & production
Ingeleiv Berstad choreography
Julian Skar Composer &video-work
Maria Tryti Venneroed text
Ingeborg Olerud light designer
Kristin Helgebostad performer and co-creator
Hooman Sharifi consultor on choreography
Nia Damerell consultor on set-design
The performance is supported by Arts Counsil Norway, Fund for Performing Artists and Noregs Mållag and is co-produces by Dance House Oslo and Regional Arena for Samtidsdans in Sandnes (RAS).
Ingeleiv Berstad is a dancer and choreographer from Norway. She studied MA in choreography at Oslo National Academy of The Arts finishing summer 2012 with final piece ”OM! KOM TILBAKE! KOM TILBAKE IGJEN!”. She is making her own pieces as well as collaborating with other artists and performing with other choreographers. She has over some years been a part og Berstad/Skar and estabished the collective Koreografistudentene together with Kristin Helgebostad and Eivind Seljeseth, lately with the piece ”Catching the Cold” that will premiere in april 2013. She was also a part of the Expanding Matters series led by curator Rickhard Borgstrøm. The coming year she will choreograph and/or perform in collaboration with Ingri Fiksdal, Human Failure collective, Universal Performance. Busy year. She recieved the Danceweb-scholarship 2012 from Jardin dÉurope. She is one of the artists behind the festival Rethink Dance.
