Film – Dance to be Murdered By

Film – Dance to be Murdered by premiered during the Bergen International Festival in 1988. Over 20 years later, the production will now be presented with the original cast. Alfred Hitchcock’s Music to be Murdered by provides the underlying impulse for a meeting between dance, text, music and film, in which polar explorers’ survival strategies in an arctic wasteland and John Cage’s texts juxtapose physical reality against fiction. Three dancers and two actors explore anew the production’s themes and visual communication in a theatrical context, which more than 20 years ago − due to the inter-medial focus of the choreography − caused a sensation.

Choreographers Anne Grete Eriksen and Leif Hernes have led Dansdesign since 1978. They have choreographed a large number of dance works together, both own projects and commissioned works from Norwegian and international arts institutions. In full-length choreographies and outdoor stagings, most recently for the New Opera, Dansdesign collaborates with teams of established artists who provoke the parameters of dance, space and technology. With a service time of 33 years, Dansdesign is still characterised as innovative, multimediatic and visually bold.