How do we use the body as a conduit for language? Under what circumstances must the body act out, adjust, or contradict language? And what do you do with variable interpretations of words?
Spoken language is always accompanied by gestures. We emphasize our words or soften them, we extend their meaning or brush it off. The silent contract between language and movement is the subject of the engaging performance titled Terms & Conditions by Ingrid Berger Myhre.
Etymology is the part of linguistics that deals with where words come from. It looks at the connections between concepts and meanings, and how these have changed over time depending on context and use. Etymology can be seen as a kind of map of the movement and relationships of words, both formally and semantically. We use this as a framework to think about how language moves choreographically. Using game structures and choreographic assignments we will explore the literal and metaphorical, embodied cognition, associative trains of thought, related meaning, formal shifts and puns.
Date:
Terms & Conditions takes place on Friday evening, October 31, 2025.
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Location:
Marres, Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Ingrid Berger Myhre
Ingrid Berger Myhre (1987, Oslo, Norway) is a choreographer and performer based in Brussels. She holds an MA in Choreography; Research and Performance from ex.e.r.ce at the Choreographic Centre in Montpellier and later deepened her project literacy in dance at the Research Studio’s at P.A.R.T.S. Since 2015, she has developed her work as associate artist at Dansateliers Rotterdam, periodically with the support of the Dutch Performing Arts Funds, and the Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) network.
Language and semiotics are central elements to Berger Myhre’s artistic work. Her curiousity for how we read and understand dance, comes together in unpretentious and humorous performances. With her first 2 productions selected for Aerowaves, her work has since 2018 toured extensively in Europe in places like SPRING Festival, Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Kaaitheatre, STUK, Sommerszene and more. Her longstanding and continuous collaboration with composer and sound artist Lasse Passage takes many forms, most recently the stage performance No Dreams, No Gold (2025).
Since 2020, Berger Myhre is supported internationally by Caravan Production.
Credits
Research and direction: Ingrid Berger Myhre
Performer: Ingrid Berger Myhre
Developed in collaboration with: Yuhan Ashley Ho, Calvin Carrier, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold
Outside eyes: Sara Manente, Geert Belpaeme
Residencies: STUK, Leuven (BE), Bora Bora, Aarhus (DK)
Co-production: Bærum Kulturhus (NO)
Supported by: Au Jus, Brussels (BE), I Am Undone (NO), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (BE)
Production: Caravan Production (BE)
Performance of gestures
The diptych on ‘performance of gestures’ by Amparo Gonzalez Sola and Ingrid Berger Myhre continues Marres’ long-standing tradition of exploring the language of the body. The Floor is Lava (2019) by artists Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen, and Museum Motus Mori (2019) by choreographer Katja Heitmann, were also dedicated to this theme.
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Partners / thanks to
Dansateliers, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Frascati Producties, BAU AIR (NL), Greenhouse (NL), Rooms Performance Festival (NL), workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT)
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
