If the first sentence doesn’t pull you in, then words consistently contain but are empty.

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If This | Then is a performance situated in Urtegata 11. An immersive sound experience radiates through a two-dimensional speaker landscape. Through the fusion of deconstructed voice and movement, three performers question, challenge, and re-construct hierarchies engrained in language. They immerse themselves in indeterminate situations, blurring distinct borders of categorisation. Voice, breath, and text are transposed into sonic landscapes that highlight the intricacies of the familiar and banal. Through the unfinished, unresolved, and undigested they play with the very fabric of linguistic expressions.

‘If This | Then’ is a new work by Lisa Colette Bysheim (1991) that embraces her choreographic practice of working with language, navigating through layers of meaning and questioning power relations. Though playful scenarios, Bysheim explores the containers of language and the preconceived attitudes that govern our linguistic and societal norms.

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An industrial warehouse sets a raw and unpolished scene. A place where vigorous voices spill over, words are fragmented, thrown around. The dancers’ unite in vibrant tableaus, a transparent process unfolds as they sample, recycle and reconstruct the materials in text, sound, voice and movement.