Unchained Melody

In Unchained Melody, Mette Ingvartsen uses love songs from different eras as a musical anchor for the choreography.

The movement follows the logic of water: ripples spread between the dancers, undercurrents draw them in new directions or into a swirl before calm returns and the surface settles.

The dancers sing as they move, a physical practice that puts the breath into play: the voice shifts, the tone breaks. Ingvartsen works deliberately with strong emotional affects, and in the meeting point of song, feeling, and dance, the performers navigate an ever-changing emotional seascape.

For Ingvartsen, love is more than a feeling; it is a social and political force that can erode what is hard or loosen what once seemed fixed. Unchained Melody is a performance in which song, moods, and movement flow into one another like waves on the sea.

 

World premiere 28 May, during Bergen International Festival

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