ABRAKADABRA
ABRAKADABRA (2025) by Becker/Moviken/Utzig.
The production was scheduled to be premiered at Black Box teater on 22 May 2025, but it was postponed until further notice owing to illness.
Information
(Objekt ID 157012)| Object type | Production |
| Coproducers | Black Box Teater, Rosendal Teater, , BIT Teatergarasjen |
| Audience | Adults |
| Keywords | Performance |
| Last changed | 20.10.2025 |
| Create date | 06.06.2025 |
Requirements to venue
| Last changed | 20.10.2025 |
| Create date | 06.06.2025 |
From Black Box teater’s season programme 2025:
"ABRAKADABRA is a portal, a threshold and a performance – a bodily work that insists on attempting to create itself, again and again, like a pulsating, indeterminate echo.
Abracadabra is a well-known spell from late antiquity. Some believe the word stems from the Hebrew ’habberakha’, meaning ‘the blessing’, while others trace it to the Aramaic ’abruq ad babra’, which translates directly to ‘I will create as I speak’.
In the performance ABRAKADABRA, the space itself becomes the voice. The incantation or spell carries a promise of mystique and magic but reveals itself as something tangible in translation. ’I will create as I speak’ grounds the project in practical work, movement, growth, development and action.
In a time when the outlook for the future seems dystopian, could the act of creation, the act of giving life, perhaps give us hope for a new future? Or is this insistence on constant production our Achilles heel? Are we digging our own grave, dancing ourselves exhausted into darkness – or is it in the attempt, in an abracadabra!, that we might glimpse another possible world?
Funded by Arts Council Norway, The Fund for Performing Artists.
SOURCE:
Black Box teater’s archive, 2025
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Signe Becker | – Concept/Idea |
| Julie Moviken | – Concept/Idea |
| Charlott Utzig | – Concept/Idea |
| Julie Moviken | – Choreography |
| Charlott Utzig | – Choreography |
| Natali Garner Abrahamsen | – Composition (Musikalsk utforming) |
| Stine Janvin Motland | – Composition (Musikalsk konsept) |
| Signe Becker | – Stage design |
| Signe Becker | – Costume |
| Ingeborg Staxrud Olerud | – Lighting design |
| Julie Moviken | – Performer |
| Charlott Utzig | – Performer |
| Ingeborg Husbyn Aarsand | – Producer |
| Harald Beharie | – Other (Ytre øye) |
| Rosalind Goldberg | – Other (Ytre øye) |
| Fanney Antonsdottir | – Mask manager |
Photography: Chai Saeidi
| May 25, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Cancelled |
| May 24, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Cancelled |
| May 23, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Cancelled |
| May 22, 2025 19:00 – Store scene (Main stage), Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Cancelled |