Tour calendar

May 2025

  • 22 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 23 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 24 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 27 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 28 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 29 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 30 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 31 : Bergen (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA

September 2025

  • 18 : Stavamger (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA

October 2025

  • 03 : Charleroi (BE) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 22 : Oslo (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 23 : Oslo (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 24 : Oslo (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 25 : Oslo (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 26 : Oslo (NO) - CANCEL BERTHA

November 2025

  • 12 : Århus (DK) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 13 : Århus (DK) - CANCEL BERTHA
  • 14 : Århus (DK) - CANCEL BERTHA

November 2026

April 2027

CANCEL BERTHA

Carte Blanche

Choreography Jan Martens
Scenography Joris van Oosterwijk
Lighting Design Elke Verachtet
Choreography Assistant Naomi Gibson
Costume Design Indrani Balgobin
Collage Luke Drozd

Created in 2025 – Duration 60min
Piece for 14 dancers

Coproduction Bergen International Festival

In this collaboration with Carte Blanche, Belgian choreographer Jan Martens aims to delve into the fourteen dancers’ DNA, working on their rhythm and humorous potential to create an abstract, rhythmic and absurd work based on movement.

Sounds generated by the dancers’ movements become part of the music.

Inspired by polyrhythms, mathematics, and experimental music, CANCEL BERTHA, (an anagram of «Carte Blanche»), is an innovative encounter between sound, body, and space.

The stage design—a painted floor inspired by musical scores—features pastel lines and dots that guide the dancers’ journeys, turning the floor into both artwork and a visual map.

Press talks about it

« Carte Blanche’s performance of a new work is inevitably the dance highlight of the Bergen International Festival. This year, Norway’s national company for contemporary dance invited the sought-after Belgian choreographer Jan Martens to work with them. His Cancel Bertha is unusual in that there is almost no musical accompaniment. But that doesn’t mean silence, because it still comes loaded with sound and rhythm, and is full of life. »

David Mead, Seeingdance.com

« There was no super highlight, but a consistently good quality. But I had a strong experience when I saw Cancel Bertha with Carte Blanche. They created music with their whole bodies, and it became a sensory experience. »

Keld Hyldig, critic and professor emeritus of theatre studies, in Bergens Tidende

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