Ine Therese Berg
About
Ine Therese Berg is an Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre. She is an expert on contemporary performance practices and Norwegian theatre and dance. Her research explores the intersections between performing arts and society, concentrating on the integration of cultural sociology, dramaturgy, and aesthetics. Her doctoral dissertation, Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance (2020), examines how a charged concept like participation can simultaneously validate various artistic practices while critical discourse on artistic autonomy raises questions about these practices regarding artistic quality and the instrumentalization of art.
With a diverse background as a research fellow at OsloMet, a curator at the Oslo Museum, and an advisor at the Dance Information Centre, Berg has led initiatives such as the seminar series Decolonizing Theatre History and the international conference kedja Oslo - Dance and New Media. She has been awarded the National Artists’ Grant for Critics and was honored with the Critics’ Association award for Review of the Year for her critique, Teater mellom to permer. Berg has broad experience in board and committee work in the Norwegian performing arts sector and currently serves on the board of Rosendal Theatre in Trondheim. She also initiated and led the project Teatervitenskapelig Dugnad (2018) and is engaged in advocacy on the future of theatre studies in Norway.
Research and Current Projects:
Berg leads the research component of the Creative Europe-funded project EUphoric Youth (2026-2029), which works towards institutional renewal through participatory curatorial practices with young people in ten European countries. She co-founded the SEAR research group, which has received seed funding from NTNU's strategic research area Community. She is also project manager and editor for the bookproject New Drama Meets Youth – A Study of "Den Unge Scene" (to be published in 2027).
Recent publications include the report Mobilizing for Mobility, commissioned by Arts Council Norway and developed in collaboration with Telemark Research Institute, as well as the article Participation and Creative Autonomy. Her ongoing projects encompass contemporary Norwegian theatre and dance history, the involvement of children and youth in performing arts, theatre as a public space for social community, and institutional dramaturgy.
Inquiries about PhD supervision related to institutional dramaturgy and curating, recent performative and art-institutional practices and institutional critique, recent performing arts and theatre history, cultural policy, and audience research will be prioritized.
Upcoming Publications:
Ine Therese Berg, (2026), “Dismantling the Monocultural Myth – Decolonizing (in the) Norwegian theatre”. In Romanska, Magda et al, Decolonizing Dramaturgy in a Global Context, Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
Ine Therese Berg and Elena Perez,(2026) "Staging technology: Exploring mediaturgy in Norwegian performance", in Holbrook, Ulf and Rudi Jøran (eds), Electronics in Norwegian Art, Intellect.
Ine Therese Berg, (2026), "A brief interstice; A feminist perspective on the Høvik Ballet", in Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen and Sigrun Åsebø, The Feminist Legacy in Art Museums, De Gruyter
Research
Research and Current Projects:
Berg currently leads the SEAR research group, which has received seed funding from NTNU's strategic research area Community. She is also project manager and editor for the bookproject New Drama Meets Youth – A Study of "Den Unge Scene".
She is also part of the research group How to do things with disability (DOABLE) , led by professor Tone Pernille Østern.
Her ongoing projects focus on theatre as a space for social community, contemporary Norwegian theatre and dance history, the involvement of children and youth in performing arts, and institutional dramaturgy.
Publications
Negotiating The Participatory Turn. Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Mobilisering for mobilitet. Formidling av fri scenekunst
2023
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2023)
Participation and Creative Autonomy:: The Changing Role of Artists.
Teatervitenskapelige studier (TVS)
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2023)
Norway.
Academic chapter
2022
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Aesthetics of Contribution and Participation in "Lulleland".
Academic chapter
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Boundaries of Participation.
Teatervitenskapelige studier (TVS)
Professional article
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Berge, Ola Kveseth;
Berg, Ine Therese;
Kleppe, Bård;
Hjemdahl, Anne-Sofie.
(2022)
Mobilisering for mobilitet. Formidling av fri scenekunst.
Vigmostad & Bjørke
Research report
2020
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Berg, Ine Therese;
Christensen-Scheel, Boel;
Gladsø, Svein.
(2020)
Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2019
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Teatervitenskap etter vendingen mot deltagelse – disiplinære skillelinjer for fall?.
Peripeti
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese;
Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens;
Leirvåg, Siren;
Tronstad, Ragnhild.
(2019)
En fremtid for teatervitenskapen.
Peripeti
Professional article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Norwegian Theatre – a blind spot on cultural policy’s participatory agenda?.
Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift (NKT)
Academic article
2018
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2018)
Participation to the People! Locating the Popular in Rimini Protokoll’s Home Visit Europe.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
2016
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2016)
Kropp, teori og kjønn. En artikkel om skillelinjer i norsk dans.
Non-fiction chapter
Journal publications
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Teatervitenskap etter vendingen mot deltagelse – disiplinære skillelinjer for fall?.
Peripeti
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Boundaries of Participation.
Teatervitenskapelige studier (TVS)
Professional article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2018)
Participation to the People! Locating the Popular in Rimini Protokoll’s Home Visit Europe.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese;
Gjærum, Rikke Gürgens;
Leirvåg, Siren;
Tronstad, Ragnhild.
(2019)
En fremtid for teatervitenskapen.
Peripeti
Professional article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2023)
Participation and Creative Autonomy:: The Changing Role of Artists.
Teatervitenskapelige studier (TVS)
Academic article
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2019)
Norwegian Theatre – a blind spot on cultural policy’s participatory agenda?.
Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift (NKT)
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2022)
Aesthetics of Contribution and Participation in "Lulleland".
Academic chapter
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2023)
Norway.
Academic chapter
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Berg, Ine Therese.
(2016)
Kropp, teori og kjønn. En artikkel om skillelinjer i norsk dans.
Non-fiction chapter
Report
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Berge, Ola Kveseth;
Berg, Ine Therese;
Kleppe, Bård;
Hjemdahl, Anne-Sofie.
(2022)
Mobilisering for mobilitet. Formidling av fri scenekunst.
Vigmostad & Bjørke
Research report
Student thesis or dissertation
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Berg, Ine Therese;
Christensen-Scheel, Boel;
Gladsø, Svein.
(2020)
Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Teaching
Courses
Autumn 2025
DRA2008/DRA 3008 Metoder i drama og teaterforskning/Forskningsmetode i anvendt teater og dramturgi: https://www.ntnu.no/studier/emner/DRA2008/2025/1#tab=omEmnet og https://www.ntnu.no/studier/emner/DRA2008#tab=omEmnet
Spring 2026
DRA1001 Tema i teaterhistorien: https://www.ntnu.no/studier/emner/DRA1001#tab=omEmnet
DRA303 Performance-teori: Perspektiver og begreper https://www.ntnu.no/studier/emner/DRA3003#tab=omEmnet
Outreach
2024
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2024) Participatory performance in Norway. Teater som fellesskapsarena: Medskapende scenekunst - Ambisjoner og utfordringer
2021
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Feature article
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InterviewBerg, Ine Therese. (2021) Utdanningsministeren sa han fryktet politisk korrekthet. Nå reagerer forskere.
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2021) The Boundaries of Participation. Join In - International Conference on Interactive Theatre
2020
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Conference lecture
2018
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Feature article
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Feature article
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2018) Publikumsdeltagelse og makt: Hvem bestemmer i teatret?. Fagdag: makt + fortelling
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Conference lectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2018) Teatervitenskap etter vendingen mot deltagelse. Teatervitenskap - historiografi, teori og praksis
2017
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LectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2017) Audience participation: artistic collaboration? Between art and the social. Co-art: Samarbeid og mulige kreative kunstneriske relasjoner mellom utøvere og komponister
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Lecture
2016
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Conference lectureBerg, Ine Therese. (2016) Talking to the audience. Methodological approaches to researching participatory theatre. Theatre and the Popular
2015
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Lecture
2014
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Contribution to radio or TV