Ingri FiksdalNO

Dance Supermedium

Ingri Fiksdal works as a choreographer based in Oslo (Norway)

She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and is an affiliated researcher with CoFUTURES at the University of Oslo. Ingri works with choreography as a format of speculative fiction that can propose complex and manyfold understandings of body, gender, species, knowledge and history.

Ingri Fiksdal has performed extensively in Europe, North America and Asia, notably at Kunstenfestival Brussels, Palais de Tokyo Paris, MCA Chicago, Beijing Contemporary Dance Festival, Harbourfront Centre and more. She is currently working on a 2025-commission for The Bentway in Toronto with director Jonas Corell Petersen.

Genre

Dance

Entourage

Duration

65 mins

Director/Choreographer

Yaniv Cohen

Producer

Madeleine Fairminer

Set Design

Carl Nilssen-Love

Light Design

Martin Myrvold

Music

Arvid Ingvarsson

Costume Design

Eyrun Müller

Produced by

Y to C – Yaniv Cohen

Co-produced by

Dansens Hus, DansiT, Kloden teater and Rosendal teater

Funded by

Arts Council Norway, FFUK, The Fritt Ord Foundation

Supermedium

In the history of dance up to the present day, there are different approaches to the embodiment of the virtual or invisible. Witches or mediums have always been women associated with the fringes of society and superpowers. In Supermedium, nine dancers become mediums who channel movement through time and space, and thus vessels that connect past, future and present. Through attempts of invocation, possession and finally exorcism of various movement archives, the performance grows into a speculative fiction that examines what kinds of body knowledge and histories we possess, and which bodies are possessed.

Photo: Tale Hendnes