"Spell"

Hot on the heels of their 10th anniversary performance in January, Neither Nor, in collaboration with Berlin-based choreographer Julia Maria Koch, present their new stage production, "SPELL".
Through movement, sound, scenography and text, "SPELL" explores the role the body plays in confronting the unknown. What do we do in order to classify things, to make them tangible—to translate them from a world of abstract ideas into a material one?
In ritual acts we seek access to the subconscious through physical practices such as singing, dancing, speaking and breathing.
Culturally, there are many differences in how we create, tell, and retell our histories, but storytelling itself is universal.
We describe our institutions to understand them and give them a body. Because only what has a body, what can be described, can have a story and exist.

With:
Julia Maria Koch (choreography, co-direction)
Alwynne Pritchard (movement direction, music/sound, performance, co-direction)
Erik Iñaki Odriozola Soraluce (dance/performance/creation)
Alberto Chianello (dance/performance/creation)
Nadine Nasr (dance/performance/creation)
Eslam Saad (text, performance)
Thorolf Thuestad (music/sound/performance)
Torsten Lippstock (lights).

SPELL is a Neither Nor/Julia Maria Koch production.
Funded by Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Goethe-Institut, Bergen kommune and Bergen Internasjonale Teater.