Dance performance
INGMAR BERGMAN THROUGH THE CHOREOGRAPHER’S EYE
Executive producers: Ingmar Bergman jr & Marie-Louise Sid-Sylwander
Hammars Drama Productions AB
As a film director, Bergman was also a choreographer. Throughout his films, and his theatre works, one could sense his thoroughly choreographed language – in the beautiful movement of a head, or an arm, in the blink of an eyelid – Bergman’s “invisible hand”, constantly directing the actor in a slow dance around the room.
The renowned and innovative Swedish choreographers Alexander Ekman, Pär Isberg, Pontus Lidberg and Joakim Stephenson, with principal dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet, interpret Ingmar Bergman through four unique dance performances reflecting on human relations and intense feelings - the unspoken word transformed into movements.
“Bergman through the Choreographer’s Eye” was performed twice during the “Bergman Week” in July 2016. The venue was the atmospheric Bunge Aircraft Hangar – in Bergman territory, near his home in Fårö, Gotland, where we can experience the trapped, quiet, intense feeling that is so typically Bergman.
The performance was filmed on location for Sveriges Television (SVT).
PROGRAMME
60 min
Some thoughts on Bergman and dance
Choreography & dance: Alexander Ekman
Music: Frédéric Chopin
Script: Ekman / Bergman
Samband - Band - Saraband
Choreography: Pär Isberg
Dancers: Nadja Sellrup & Oscar Salomonsson
Music: J.S. Bach
Soloist: Torleif Thedéen
A pre-study
Choreography & dance: Pontus Lidberg
Music: Stefan Levin
Voice: Stina Ekblad
Dramaturge: Adrian Silver
Onapers
Choreography: Joakim Stephenson
Dancers: Nathalie Nordquist & Jenny Nilson
Music: Stefan Levin
Costumes: Marie Bergman
Our sincere gratitude to Peder af Geijerstam-Lindberg & Per och Louise Berggren for their kind donations that made this performance possible.
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