CAKE is a collaborative project made of dancers Ingrid Haakstad(NO), Orfee Schuijt(FR) and percussionist Jennifer Torrence(USA).

We work from a place of co-creating/performing, and we experiment like in a band, with a myriad of sounding objects, other inanimated materials and movement. We are playing with a form of improvised practices not bound to naming, but more of a ‘terrain de jeux’, a playground that animates the texture of the objects and the bodies performing.

Together we explore how sound, body and movement can be pulled apart and create repercussions on their own. The project investigates scale with sounds of tiny objects versus large body actions or the cacophony of sounds with very little movements. We want to see how to stretch the capacity for things to be heard, either through dance or movement.

CAKE stands for a layered cake, with separated layers of texture, piled on top of each other. This is a simple image of how we pile our 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 examines how performers allow themselves to be "touched" by the forms and sound they bond with and articulate with precision strange and absurd scenarios. The objects range from innuendos shapes (wips, pink latex blobs or sticks) to percussions and small instruments (cymbal, bells, synth whistles). In Cake everything is accepted in as part of a “mini large scale” environment.