NO DREAMS, NO GOLD
No Dreams, No Gold might be a performance about pauses. But it also might be about structure, about performing your own material, about digressions, about wet dreams and electroacoustic music, about absence, about how and when to drink coffee, about the ordinary and about the extraordinary.
Ingrid Berger Myhre is a Norwegian dance artist based in Brussels. She holds an MA Choreography: research and performance from ex.e.r.ce CCN Montpellier and Research Studio’s at P.A.R.T.S. A former amateur percussionist, she is now contemplating whether to make a comeback or to completely retire.
Composer and musician Lasse Passage started studying composition at the Grieg Academy in Bergen and completed his BA in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Adding to this his practice as a singer-songwriter further complicates his delightfully diverse musical identity.
Ingrid and Lasse have different experience and perspective, but share the space of negotiation that arise when meeting in the periphery of their own expertise. As a consequence, No Dreams, No Gold becomes a performance that takes refreshing liberties as it slips between a broad range of genres: from erotic hörspiels, to hybris lectures and relentless one-man-bands.
Departing from the auto-biographical, Lasse and Ingrid have given themselves the assignment and the license to drift off into fictional spaces. Are pause and structure simply two sides of the same coin — something to hold onto, and something to lean into?
Credits:
Choreography and performance: Ingrid Berger Myhre and Lasse Passage
Music: Lasse Passage and Ingrid Berger Myhre
Scenography: Ida Grimsgaard
Light design: Fudetani Ryoya
Dramaturgical advice: Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness
Visual development: Sigurd Ytre-Arne
Costumes: Signe Vasshus
Production: Caravan Production
Co-production: BIT Teatergarasjen (NO), Rosendal Teater (NO), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), Davvi Senter for Scenekunst (NO)
Residencies: Kunstencentrum BUDA (BE), Bunker (SI), DansiT (NO), Uferstudios / Tanzfabriek Berlin (DE)
Supported by: Advancing Performing Arts Project (apap) - FEMINIST FUTURES - a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union
Photo: Kim Jacobsen To
Quadratisch. Practisch. Gut. (WP 2022) - durata 25 min.
This year I've been writing a new piece for the ensemble Tøyen Fil og Klafferi (flute, clarinet, violin & cello). Thrilled to announce that it will premiere as part of Ultimas co-curated program at by:Larm 17 September 2022, in Oslo. Hope to see you there!
Photo: Anna Julia Granberg
NEW EP - LADIES NIGHT - OUT 24TH OF JUNE 2021
Excited to announce the release of my new EP - Ladies Night. It’s a collection of songs that for many years have been part of my live-show, but that never fitted the mold of my singer/songwriter albums. Some of the tracks date all the way back to 2015, when I started to crush on electronic music with beats. Apart from a few overdubs, I did everything myself; recording and mixing - which certainly attributed to the DIY home-recording feel. And since I'm still playing these songs live, it must mean I'm still in love with them and that they still spark joy - so I thought it was about time to release this as a low-key EP. Photo credits to my dad :-)
Out for streaming 24th of June. Listen here.
Release gigs for Ladies Night:
12.08.21 'MIR' - Oslo (NO)
14.08.21 'Sniki Art Festival' - Tønsberg (NO)
21.08.21 'Gråbeinsfestivalen' - Oslo (NO)
Music video for god is in the nature
Directed by Jenny Berger Myhre
new album - sunwards
Nice review of Sunwards in Dagens Næringsliv by Audun Vinger:
Head over to Sofa Songs Records to get a copy of the vinyl or CD. If you wanna stream the album you can find your prefered streaming platform here.
Panflutes and Paperwork
Trailer for Panflutes and Paperwork
About Panflutes and Paperwork
What does “dancing to music” really mean? And how do you create music for dance? In this duet, Ingrid Berger Myhre and Lasse Passage playfully examine the relationships between dance and music, using scores as tools to uphold structure over skill, method over indulgence. The title of their duet alludes to the contrast between the wet and the dry: Panflutes, on the one hand, are playful and passionate, Paperwork, on the other, refers to notation and sounds bureaucratic. The tensions between these states play well with tired conventions in the famous choreographer-composer constellation. With both tools at hand, Ingrid and Lasse invent games that re-negotiate their rule.
“When the form is in place, everything within it can be pure feeling” - A.Schöenberg
Conception and performance Ingrid Berger Myhre and Lasse Passage Nøsted Photos: Sara Anke Funded by Arts Council Norway Co-production Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), Black Box Teater (NO), CSC Bassano Del Grappa (IT), WP Zimmer (BE) Supported by P.A.R.T.S. (BE), Rimi/Imir Senter for Scenekunst (NO) Moving Futures Festival (NL).