World premiere at Bergen International Festival 2025
Highlight (of Bergen International Festival 2025): “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.” Translation of the quote by Keld Hyldig, critic and professor emeritus of theatre studies, in Bergens Tidende 06.06.2025
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