SPOILER

by Berstad / Helgebostad / Wigdel

SPOILER is the second production by the trio Berstad/Helgebostad/Wigdel. First as students and later as performers and choreographers, they have cultivated a strong mutual artistic trust. Emboldened by these bonds of trust, they continue to develop a playful and intuitive way of working where no idea is too hysterical, vulgar, inflammatory or childish to be explored.

In SPOILER, Berstad/Helgebostad/Wigdel explore outer and inner noise; how they can affect and provoce each other and how this can be developed and expressed through the body.

Berstad/Helgebostad/Wigdel enter into an unknown universe and seeks distortion, darkness and playfulness. There is no security, no immediate recognisability, but a world with countless layers of unexplored mechanisms and conditions. The uncompromising length and noisy silence suddenly break up by a chaotic landscape that pushes all boundaries. Distortion turns ugliness and the grotesque into the poetic and almost beautiful. Ingeleiv Berstad, Ida Wigdel and Kristin Helgebostad enter the woods and dedicate themselves to the dark and secret sides of human existense with unconditional intensity and physical affection.

SPOILER premiered at Black Box Theatre Oslo 2017, and has been presented in  Oktoberdans in Bergen 2017, MDT Stockholm 2017, Flora Theatre Festival, Olomouc 2017, Rotterdamse Schouwburg 2017, ICE HOT nordic dance platform in Reykjavik 2018, Quarter Block Party, Cork 2020

Credits

Choreography and performers: Ida Wigdel, Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Helgebostad

Set design and costume design: Thale Kvam Olsen

Light design: Elisabeth Nilsson

Sound design: Per Platou

Dramaturge: Melanie Fieldseth

Co-production: Black Box teater

Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Fond For Lyd og Bilde

Are you afraid of the «dark»? SPOILER opens up many spaces and creates a magical landscape, writes Andrea C. Rygh: The performers perform with a confident glow, and a playful relationship with timing and expectations.

Andrea Csaszni Rygh, Scenekunst.no, February 2017