Largo

Largo was a dance production produced by Nordwest Tanzcompagnie, a project company made up with dancers from Tanztheater Bremen and Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg in 2009, with choreography by Ingun Bjørnsgaard.

In Norway the production was performed in Bærum and Bergen.

Information

(Objekt ID 33434)
Object type Production
Premiere February 28, 2009
Produced by Tanztheater Bremen, Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, Nordwest Tanzcompagnie
Keywords Dance
Running period February 28, 2009  
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Ingun Bjørnsgaardwon Norwegian Critics' Award for dance in 2009/2010 for Largo.

Sidsel Pape said the following, among other things, in her speech to Ingun Bjørnsgaard, held as part of the awards ceremony for Norwegian Critics' Award for dance 2009/2010, September 30 2010 at The House of Literature in Oslo:

"In a time when more contemporary dance choreographers test works with large companies, Bjørnsgaard shows that she masters the format, as well as performances in solos, duos and trios. When 18 dancers create an apparent state of chaos in Largo, a well-considered composition step forward, one in which the choreographer's eye for the individual and the group is taken carefully care of. Bjørnsgaard excellently balances power and fragility, humour and melancholy in quick transformations, unexpected and unpredictable. The production towers above other choreography performed in Norwegian venues the period of 2009/2010.

Bjørnsgaard's musicality creates dynamic interaction between music and movement. The music is, as in several of Bjørnsgaard's former productions, composed by Per Henrik Svalastog. Baroque music by Bach, Telemann, Goebel, Händel and others has also been used."

Read the speech in full (Norwegian only) here.

Sources:

Ingun BP, www.ingunbp.no, 13.02.2013, http://www.ingunbp.no/pages/eng/5-largo

Norwegian Critics'Association, kritikerlaget.no, 29.09.2011, http://www.kritikerlaget.no/pages/nor/540-dansekritikerprisen_20092010_til_ingun_bjoernsgaard

Contributors (4)
Name Role
Ingun Bjørnsgaard – Choreography
Per Henrik Svalastog – Composition
Thomas Björk – Stage design
Thomas Björk – Costume
Performance dates
Navember 10, 2009Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche Show
Navember 8, 2009Store Sal, Bærum Kulturhus National premiere, Norway
February 28, 2009 Worldwide premiere