Cake - Jennifer Torrence/Ingrid Håkestad/Orfee Schjuit ^(US/NO/FR)

CAKE is a collaborative project made of dancers Ingrid Haakstad, Orfee Schuijt and percussionist Jennifer Torrence. Working from a place of co-creating/performing, the three perfomers experiment like in a band, with a myriad of sounding objects and other inanimated materials. Playing with a form of practice not bound to naming, but more of a ‘terrain de jeux’, a playground that animates the texture of the objects and the bodies performing. They play the sound of tiny objects and arrive at times, to a cacophony of sounds and actions, almost out of control. Stretching the capacity for things to be heard, like a murmur or a scream.

CAKE stands for a layered cake, with separated layers of flavors, piled on top of each other. This is a simple image of how the performers pile their fields and knowledges together. How does a performer’s engagement with sounding objects can produce new choreographic dynamics and sensuous modes of meaning-making? Cake examine how performers allow themselves to be "touched".