DansiT residency artist

​​Wednesday 14.01.2026 kl 9:30-11:30 at DansiT

In this Praxis-class you’ll have the opportunity to look closer at slide material, specifically from tap dance. Some of them travel fast over the floor, some remind more of small, smooth footwork from house dancing. Many different techniques are hidden inside of this material. We’ve worked on it for a long time in the process of making Soft Ice. It’s a lot of fun, a little bit hard and good training for your core muscles as well as stamina…! The class is based on active use of the feet and weight transfer. Guitarist Juhani Silvola will accompany the class.

Who can join: For anyone who wants to learn how to slide in all possible ways. Anyone can join. Bring wool socks.

Bio: Janne Häger Eraker (1980) is a tap dancer based in Oslo, with a dance education from Codarts in Rotterdam and Dance Space in New York. She tap dances is the electronic duo Øy and has choreographed the solo’s Rhythm is a Dancer and Tap Noir. She has released three records: Gol Variations (2022, One Small Step), Movements for Listening (2023, duetter og trio) and Live (2024, Øy). 

​Wednesdays 21.01 + 28.01 kl 9:30 - 11:30 at DansiT + 04.02.2026 kl 9:30 - 11:30 at Rosendal Teater 

We will work with grounding and balancing through focus on breath, mindfulness, movement and gravity. We constantly need to be activated, sharpened and focused. How can breath be a support for balancing the nervous system? How can we be more conscious about body-mind connection? How can we work on releasing tension, using balance, gravity and breath as support? Relevant for those who want to learn stress management and relaxation techniques, strengthen body awareness and learn about functional breathing. The classes involve breathing techniques/breathwork, somatic movement, alignment, bodywork and elements from yoga. We will work both individually and in groups. The practice varies between floor-based work, seated and standing sequences and all practitioners are welcome. 

You can bring your own yoga mat if you like, if not there are mats/bolsters/blocks/blankets available. I recommend an extra sweater to put on.

Who can join: Everyone is welcome!

Bio: Susanne Rasmussen has her professional backgound based in dance, she is a certified breathcoach and has more than 15 years of experience as a department manager in the public sector. Her approach to teaching is based in dance/release work, yoga and evidence-based breathing techniques. As a committed professional, she conveys knowledge based on her own experience with fatigue and chronic inflammation. She has previously worked as an educator/dancer/choreographer and was one of the developers of DansiT and PRODA in Trondheim.

Education and certifications:

BA in dance from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) 

BA from Theaterschool of Amsterdam (SNDO).

Certified as a breath coach, Breath Coach Training, Mindgrit, Trondheim May 2024.

Restorativ Yoga certification ((YACEP) November 2025 from Yin-yoga Center, Stockholm

Other relevant experience

Oslo Body-Mind Centering®: Nervous System ( desember 24), Skeletal  System (mars-24)

DansiT residency artist

​​Wednesday 11.02.2026 kl 9:30-11:30 at DansiT

What traces do we carry from a time and culture before us? The workshop will provide an insight into the tasks and practices used in the project SIYA. The project explores different forms of spaces, places where ambiguity and complexity arise. We will work with transformation and ambiguity as a queer and decolonial strategy to search for new ways of being and relating.

Who can join: Open to all, please contact us if you need any accommodations.

Bio:  Carl Aquilizan (de/dem) is a Norwegian-Filipino dance artist based in Oslo. They explore decolonial and transformative practices from a queer and multicultural perspective, and want to challenge Western norms and open up new ways of thinking. In their latest and upcoming projects, they examine their Filipino heritage and what it means to carry the knowledge and stories of their ancestors in their bodies. The works also look at traces of pre-colonial worldviews in Filipino language, culture and contemporary expressions. Carl Aquilizan is educated at Spin Off Forstudium i Dans and Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Previous works include dis_func (2021), Flower Boy (2022/24), Blooming (2022/23) and Out of Place (2025) which have been shown on a number of stages in Norway, including Flower Boy being shown at Dansens Hus in 2024. They are also performers for a number of other choreographers and companies.

​Wednesdays 11.03 + 18.03 + 25.03.2026 kl 9:30 - 11:30 at Flamenco Trondheim (Båtmansgata 4, Trd)

These classes offer an introduction to flamenco as both a dance and a cultural expression, rooted in centuries-old traditions from Andalusìa in southern Spain. We

will explore flamenco’s unique rhythm, movement, and emotional depth, focusing on connecting with yourself and the music, cultivating mental and physical presence. It can open up an inner strength that embraces power, softness, and elegance. Throughout the workshop, we will work on basic technique, posture, and expression, as well as a short choreography in a four-beat rhythm to melody/song. This flamenco style is energetic and playful, while leaving room for deeper interpretation. 

Practical Information: You’ll need comfortable pants/tights and a top. A skirt with some width can be worn over the pants if you like, as it can be incorporated into some dance movements—but that’s optional. The characteristic footwork in flamenco creates a clear rhythmic sound from shoes with metal nails under the heel and toe. For beginners, character/theater shoes or simple dress shoes with a small heel and hard sole work well. Avoid sneakers or shoes with rubber soles, and make sure the shoes fit securely to give you freedom to dance. Flamenco shoes can be borrowed as well. Welcome to a fusion of strength, rhythm, and emotion in flamenco!

Who can join: The course is open to anyone who wishes to explore this exciting and passionate dance and experience how to integrate some of it into their own unique identity.

​Bio: Hilde began dancing flamenco in Granada in 2001–2002, while living and studying in the southern Spanish region of Andalucía. She has been a member of Flamenco Trondheim for many years and previously taught there. Hilde has danced in FlamenCompaniet, the first flamenco ensemble in Mid-Norway, and is a member of Compas Flamenco Ensemble. She has taken flamenco courses at Academia de Baile Flamenco in Buenos Aires as well as in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In Norway, she has studied with various teachers in Oslo and Trondheim. Hilde is a certified specialist in psychology and currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, NTNU.

DansiT residency artists ​​- Wednesday 8.4.2026 kl 9:30-11:30 at DansiT

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This workshop will focus on improvisation within a designated frame or space. We will practice observing and listening to the environment, responding through our bodies and movements. How can we assimilate with or diffrenciate ourselves from our surroundings? Is there a way to coexist harmoniously with the environment?

Who can join: Open for anyone who is familiar with dancing and improvising. 

Bio: Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki are based in Brussels and Oslo. Since beginning their collaboration in 1996 and later co-founding the company fieldworks, they have created more than 25 performances presented in over 30 countries. Together they explore performativity as a porous and shifting interplay of movement, sound, image and technology. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, their work creates layered performances where dance becomes an expanded field of inquiry. With sensitivity to both the organic and the artificial, they blur boundaries – crafting spaces where new meanings can emerge, quietly or unexpectedly.  At the heart of their work lies a desire to reimagine the body’s relationship to its surroundings, and to invite audiences into this ongoing act of discovery. In 2025, they received the Hedda Award for until, which premiered at Dansens Hus in Oslo.  

Tuesday 21.04 kl 10:00 - 12:00 (part of Multiplié dansefestival - free entrance)

+ Wednesdays 29.04 + 06.05.2026 kl 9:30 - 11:30 at DansiT

In this workshop we will explore how to bring awareness to uncomfortable sensations in the body and how we can use these sensations as a doorway to expanding our own borders. In my own artistic practice (and life) I am noticing how bringing awareness and curiosity to difficult mind/body sensations actually provides me with a lot of opportunity for expression and satisfaction. I now want to share, explore and bring more language to this practice together with you. We will do this through different improvisational tasks, somatic awareness methods, drawing and writing.

This is not a workshop where you will be pressured to go far past your comfort zone, but a workshop where we will practice tools so you can explore your borders in your own way and pace.

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Who can join: This workshop is suited for all movement enthusiasts, artists and anyone who is curious about themselves

Bio: Andrea Sørlie Barrett is freelance dance artist based in Trondheim. She has a BA in contemporary dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. After her education she worked with choreographers such as Fieldworks, Ingri Fiksdal, Tora Midtbø and Tendai Makurumbandi. She is currently under training to become a certified mentor in Kiloby Inquiries - a somatic inquiry method that aims to contact repressed emotions. She works the most with anger. She dances for the joy of embodying all that she is.

Friday 06.03.2026 kl 18:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 07.03.2026 kl 10:00 - 12:00 

“Notice & Continue” is a dance practice that I am currently developing. I am very interested in meeting dancers and dance enthusiasts in Trondheim and see how you approach it.

Notice what you are doing and take it further. We use movements, positions, quality of movement, breath and thoughts as material to embrace, develop, emphasize or repeat. Every little thing you notice can be a seed to take further. By noticing and continuing, new aspects of the activity are constantly coming to the forefront of our attention.

“Notice & Continue” has two strands, either a very open, generative task that gets me moving from a base of nothing. Or a more specific form using repetitions. I will try both in the workshop. I also like to start with joy and desire, and to follow our interests. Towards the end of the class, if there is time, I would like to open up for a shared game where we get the chance to interact with the others. Bring comfortable clothes.

Who can join: This workshop can be joined by anyone with an interest in improvising with some specificity and attention to details.

Bio: Karen Eide Bøen (b. 1986) is a dancer and choreographer based in Bergen. Her work revolves around attention and the connections between language and movement. Has shown the performances "Sjøveien" (2022) and "Love & Emotions" (2019) at BIT, and created "Pleasure Doing Business" (2025), "Frank & Elena" (2019) and "To See Yourself From The Outside" (2017) with Hugo Hedberg.

​Saturday 11.04.2026 kl 11:00 - 15:00

We will start slowly. Tuning  into our bodies,  finding our voice, finding shared weight and shared voice. Finding a thought and playing with it. In this practice we will research dance as a dynamic dialogue carrier while we blur the line between spoken and danced language. 

In the second half of the workshop, I would like to go one step further and invite the group into the core of my solo research: expanding the dialogue through musical instruments and loopstation, creating layers of movement, sound, and language as a collective experiment. I will bring my saxophone, and I warmly welcome participants who play an instrument and have been curious about integrating it into their dance practice to bring theirs along. This is entirely optional—there is already more than enough to explore with voices and bodies alone.

Bring clothes that you will be comfortable in on the floor and in physical contact with others. Covering knees and elbows might be a good idea.

The workshop will be held in English.

Who can join: The workshop is for dancers and movers with a basic background in contact improvisation, and is open to all abilities. It welcomes anyone who wishes to access their dancing body from the perspective of a communicator and explore how the idea of dance can expand into sound, voice, and musical instruments.

Bio: Šárka Benedová is a dancer and saxophonist based in Oslo, originally from the Czech Republic. Working at the intersection of sound and movement, she creates performance-based and collaborative works that range from stage to site-specific contexts. She co-founded Kunstgrillen, an interdisciplinary ensemble that creates responsive works for and in public space, and performs solo under the experimental saxophone project Swan on a Leash.​

Friday 06.03.2026 kl 18:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 07.03.2026 kl 10:00 - 12:00 

“Notice & Continue” is a dance practice that I am currently developing. I am very interested in meeting dancers and dance enthusiasts in Trondheim and see how you approach it.

Notice what you are doing and take it further. We use movements, positions, quality of movement, breath and thoughts as material to embrace, develop, emphasize or repeat. Every little thing you notice can be a seed to take further. By noticing and continuing, new aspects of the activity are constantly coming to the forefront of our attention.

“Notice & Continue” has two strands, either a very open, generative task that gets me moving from a base of nothing. Or a more specific form using repetitions. I will try both in the workshop. I also like to start with joy and desire, and to follow our interests. Towards the end of the class, if there is time, I would like to open up for a shared game where we get the chance to interact with the others. Bring comfortable clothes.

Who can join: This workshop can be joined by anyone with an interest in improvising with some specificity and attention to details.

Bio: Karen Eide Bøen (b. 1986) is a dancer and choreographer based in Bergen. Her work revolves around attention and the connections between language and movement. Has shown the performances "Sjøveien" (2022) and "Love & Emotions" (2019) at BIT, and created "Pleasure Doing Business" (2025), "Frank & Elena" (2019) and "To See Yourself From The Outside" (2017) with Hugo Hedberg.

Wednesdays 20.08 - 27.08 - 03.09.2025

Welcome to the wonderful world of waacking! This style of street dance celebrates everyone’s unique expression, dancing individually yet together is embraced, and power and elegance go hand in hand. In these three workshops, I will guide you through the basic elements of waacking – armdrills, posing, and drama – and hopefully pass on the many gifts this style has given me: the creative freedom, feel-good vibes, and pure joy. Are you a little curious about waacking? Come and join me at Praxis!

Who can join: Everyone! Dance experience is not required, but a bonus. High function in arms is recommended.

Bio: Emilie 'Emmylou' Ottesen has been active in Trondheim's street dance community for 10 years, contributing as an event organizer, dance teacher, and performer. She is one of the few dancers in the city specializing in waacking, and her goal is to inspire more individuals to embrace this wonderful dance form..

DansiT residency artist - 17.09.2025

Join us for a somatic and choreographic workshop drawing on Heidi Rustgaard’s ongoing research into durational performance, listening practices, and her One-Note concept, where the singular transforms into the plural. 

In this session, participants will explore Sitting Scores, a poetic and embodied choreographic practice that unfolds entirely from the act of sitting. Beginning with simple, everyday movements, we will collectively develop a movement score grounded in stillness, presence, and attentiveness.

As we sit together, side by side, apart, in between, we will explore sitting both as an action and a metaphor: sitting with the moment, sitting through discomfort, sitting beside others, sitting as a witness, and sitting with sound and place.

The workshop includes guided explorations in stillness and everyday movement, individual and collective listening practices, as well as opportunities for writing and reflection. Together, we’ll investigate how minimal, attentive actions can generate rich choreographic material and reveal new insights into how we relate to others, to space, and to time through the seemingly simple act of sitting.

Sitting Scores - Led by choreographer Heidi Rustgaard of H2DANCE is open to dancers, movers, performers, and anyone interested in embodied awareness and the choreographic process. No previous dance experience is required.

Bio: Heidi Rustgaard is a choreographer, curator, performer, and researcher exploring expanded choreography through queering structures, sound, and object relations. Co-director of H2DANCE and Fest en Fest, a festival of expanded choreography. She teaches at Trinity Laban and Roehampton and is currently in the artist cohort at Rose Choreographic School at Sadler’s Wells, London.

 DansiT residency artist - 8.10.2025

The class will centre around the mobilisation of our multidirectional body and space awareness. Through simple exercises we will work through finding connections, weight, lightness and co response in our bodies and between bodies. Finding what kind of choices one can make when dancing with others.

Bio: Orfee Schuijt (FR/NL) is a dancer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. Originally from France, she earned her BA from the Theaterschool of Amsterdam and later completed a Master in New Performative Practices at DOCH in Stockholm. Schuijt’s artistic practice is deeply multidisciplinary, exploring the sensuous relationship between animated and inanimate bodies. Her work often stems from the perspective of the dancer, with a focus on embodiment, the development of scores.

DansiT residency artist - 29.10..2025

Silvia Gribaudi‘s works embody light-heartedness, irony and freedom. The workshop is an experience of the poetic dimension that Silvia Gribaudi reasearches between the vivacity and presence of the body, where the cathartic dimension of humor and play are embodied in the expression of the body and of the gesture in each person. During the workshop there will be an exploration of the vital body that alternates the ability to have fun with an equal attention to the movement technique. Through a proposal mixing contemporary dance training and clown, with a focus on the value of the fall, imperfection and mistake are considered as an expressive opportunity. How to revitalize physicality with self -irony and the dynamism of dance and humor? How does dance bring the perception of the body and changes in this playful atmosphere?

The class is open to everyone, without any limitation of age or ability; both for professionals and amateurs; it is accessible to people with disabilities. The class will be held in English.

Bio: Silvia Gribaudi is an Italian choreographer and performer. Since 2004 she has been focusing her research on the social impact of the body and on the relation between audience and performer, through an artistic research on choreography, dance and humour. Her performances have been featured in a number of theatres and festivals in Europe, Asia and America.

www.silviagribaudi.com

Wednesdays 05.11 - 12.11 - 19.11.2025

These classes are for you that wants an introduction to what Qigong can be as a practice. How to bring it into your daily life, for better health. finding balance and inner peace. At Trondheim Taiji Senter, we teach Ba Duan Jin Qigong, where 8 movements are joined together in a sequence, bringing the whole body into balance, through movement, silence and breath. 

The classes are for whoever is curious about Qigong as a practice for health, balance and peace.

Bio: I am Tina Maria Lambert and I run Trondheim Taiji Senter together with my partner Frode Strand Karlsen. We have run the Center for almost 12 years and we teach Taiji and Qigong.  I completed my teacher training in Taiji at Norsk Taiji Senter, with Pamela Hiley in 2017. The Ba Duan Jin I learnt first of all in my 3 months long stay in Wudang mountain, China, which I will bring to this classes.

24.08.2025

The workshop will give insight into Mathilde's choreographic practice in relation to the performance 'Solaris?', based on the science fiction novel by the same name written i 1961 by the polish author Stanislaw Lem. The workshop will explore choreography based on the workshop participants' own texts, which we will develop together during the workshop. 

The workshop is for anyone who wants to connect words to movement, who wants to explore their own memory and sense of self. There are no physical requirements to participate in this workshop, anyone can join with the movement vocabulary they have. It will be preferred if participants are comfortable with using their voice. Physical theatre actors are also welcome to join.

Bio: Tone Kittelsen comes from Kristiansand and works freelance as a dance artist based in Oslo. Kittelsen produces and creates her own performances. She has produced several projects that have been shown on stages such as Kristiansand Kunsthall, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, the National Museum, Dansens Hus and Bærum Kulturhus. Her work is characterized by a deep exploration of movement, the body's potential and the emotional landscapes that dance can create. In recent years, she has collaborated closely with Tori Wrånes and toured nationally and internationally as part of her team. In Kristiansand, she has helped start and run the festival Ravnedans since its start in 2009. From 2020 to 2023, she was a recipient of the State's artist grant for newly established artists

20.09.2025

The zero point technique workshop. For professional and amateur performing artists, and for everyone who would like to learn a simple but effective technique that helps both the audience to follow and enjoy the action on stage, and the performer to deepen their actions and presence. The workshop is in English. 

Scenic action is at its purest when you do one thing at a time and focus all your attention on that one thing. Like, for example, small children playing with a teddy bear: The whole world around them disappears, for them only the teddy bear exists. And the moment they see a more interesting toy, the teddy bear disappears too, and they just play with the new toy. The moment when we move from action A to action B is called the changing point. The zero point technique is nothing more than taking a 2-3 second technical pause at the changing point.

In the first half of our playful workshop, we will have improvisational exercises where we can first try and then become aware of how to organically get to different actions using the changing points, and how to strengthen our presence in the process. We will then add the zero point technique to these exercises and see what effect this technique has. Finally, we will look at how we can apply this technique to short verbal scenes as well.

Bio: I'm Bence Molnár, a Hungarian actor, director and producer. I have lived in Norway for 3 years. I graduated as an actor from the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and then I was a member of the Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre in Timisoara for 5 years. Between 2020 and 2025 I was the artistic director of a theatre in Hungary, the Váci Dunakanyar Theatre. Since I moved here I've been working as a freelancer, I've had a premiere as an actor in Kirkenes, another premiere as a director in Tromsø, among other smaller projects.

4.10.2025 

Welcome to our OPEN STAGE on Saturday 4.10.2025 kl 18:00-19:30 at DansiT. A free event as part of the Contact Impro Festival in Trondheim and a collaboration between ImproDans Trondheim and PRAXIS Trondheim. 

The open stage offers a platform for performances based on contact improvisation (CI) or related to the principles of CI to shed a spotlight on CI as an art form. Here, dancers and participants of the festival get the opportunity to present artistic works in front of an audience. This can be a performance based on contact improvisation or a score to improvise in a performative way, in front of the audience or together with the audience.​
FREE EVENT 

18.10.2025

I'll be sharing my practice around voice and movement. Using my voice in different ways - singing or just making sounds - has become more and more important to me. I’m interested in voice as a continuation of movements already happening inside of the body - when we breathe or talk. Together we can explore how using our voice opens up different movement possibilities and pathways in the body.

I use the term “singing” very loosely - it is not connected to a specific style or aesthetic for me. We will go slow in finding the voice, and feeling comfortable with it in the space - aiming for playful, shared, curious and fun times. No previous experience in singing is needed. Please bring your notebook if you keep one:) 

This praxis is for all dancers & movers who have experience in dance improvisation. I will follow guidelines for safer spaces, and wish to invite all bodies and abilities welcome to the studio. The workshop will be based on improvisational tasks that can be approached differently, in ways that make sense to each mover! Feel free to send a message to Praxis Trondheim if you would like to know more to decide if the workshop fits your needs and interests.

Bio: Currently studying towards their MA in Dance Performance at Uniarts in Helsinki, Venla Niitemaa is a dance artist based between Norway and Finland. In my artistic practice, I am interested in themes such as care, empathy, and intimacy, and interpersonal relationships. I focus on a queer and feminist perspective, and for me, making queer art is connected to an attempt to dismantle normative ways of looking at bodies. My practice lies at the intersection of creating and performing, and I also work with interdisciplinary projects.

2.11.2025 

This workshop is based on Kongsness` experiences and discoveries from her work with the drag king group Gutta and the performance series Butch Tribute. Both projects deal with queer, female masculinity as a frame and a starting point, but in different ways. Through looking closer at these various alternative or marginalized forms of masculinity, we will continue into the idea of gender performativity in general, as Kongsness will share tools and strategies from both choreographic and drag practices.

In this workshop we will be concerned with tracing our sense of identity as performers to be able to expand our artistic possibilities for movement, action and presence. How can questioning expectations we are met with as performers/artists help us question and confront the (unconscious) fulfilling of conventions in our artistic work? What kind of frame do we need to set for ourselves to be able to create and perform the work that we want to create and perform? 

All though these strategies are developed from and with a queer perspective, we will make use of them beyond relating to gender and sexuality; to question and make ourselves aware of all kinds of recurring patterns in our work.

This workshop is for everyone with a performative or movement-based practice. All tasks given All tasks given take into account the participants' different movement backgrounds and functional levels, so that everyone can work and explore from their own starting point.

Bio: Ann-Christin Kongsness (she/her) is educated in dance, choreography and aesthetic theory. She works as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer and dragking based in Oslo, and several of her projects have a queer focus; Skeiv Dansekunst – a conversation series (https://www.skeivdansekunst.no) and the performance series Butch Tribute (https://www.butchtribute.com), in addition to life as Robin in the drag king collective Gutta (https://gutta.world). 

15.3.2025

The workshop will give insight into Mathilde's choreographic practice in relation to the performance 'Solaris?', based on the science fiction novel by the same name written i 1961 by the polish author Stanislaw Lem. The workshop will explore choreography based on the workshop participants' own texts, which we will develop together during the workshop. 

The workshop is for anyone who wants to connect words to movement, who wants to explore their own memory and sense of self. There are no physical requirements to participate in this workshop, anyone can join with the movement vocabulary they have. It will be preferred if participants are comfortable with using their voice. Physical theatre actors are also welcome to join.

Bio: Mathilde Caeyers is a Norwegian/Belgian choreographer based in Tromsø. Since 2018, she has created five choreographic works where dance has a close dialogue with installation art. Mathilde's artistic practice is based on the science-fiction method, where hypothetical future scenarios open up space for reflection around the present. She has consistently worked with themes surrounding human existence, such as free will and consciousness. Here, seemingly far-fetched ideas find a foothold in the present to encourage more questions than answers about human perception of reality. In addition, she has a 20% position as network coordinator at Davvi - Center for Scene Art and is chairman of the board of the interest organization Forum for Northern Norwegian Dance Artists.​

21.03 + 22.03.2025 

In the classes I want to share the dancefloor, while exploring how improvisation is used as a tool for both warming up our bodies but also as an entrance to actually producing materials. I enjoy working with desires, playfulness and pleasure when dancing in the studio, alone or together with others and in relation to the music.

Open for anyone interested in movement, improvisation and dance. Might contain a high level of physicality which everyone can regulate individually throughout the class.

Bio: Rina Rosenqvist is a Norwegian/Venezuelan dance artist with a BA in performing dance from UiS (2016).  Rina works as a performer in various artistic contexts and constellations (performing arts, theatre, visual arts). Here she has worked for artists such as Bananaz, Ludvig Daae, Ida Wigdel, Inés Belli, Linda Birkedal, Theater F, Goro Tronsmo, Hagit Yakira, Roskva Yasmin Andersen, Live Skullerud, Mari Angell and Infopsin. Her own work has been presented at Dansens Hus, RAS, Bærum Kulturhus, LungA Festival (Iceland) and List i Ljosi (Iceland). Rina has also been an active member in the creation and operation of Montebøllo art collective, a workspace for artists with various disciplines in Oslo. She is currently the curator for Plattform 2024 @ Black Box Teater, Oslo

26.3.2025

PRAXIS Trondheim is honored to host “Letting Go of Things” - a movement-based workshop led by Emilyn Claid, queer performance artist in her 8th decade during Multiplié Dansefestival 2025.

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‘What do we need to let go of to enliven our practices, to dissolve static postures and crumble notions of normativity? How can we use uncertainty as a life force?
With somatic movement practice as a safe ground, this workshop considers how letting go - physical, metaphorical and psychological - informs living, being and relating, undoing Western obsessions with supremacy and individuality. We will work relationally, with the environment and with each other, accepting messiness and failure as necessary for creative adventure. You are welcome to bring an object that represents something you might like to let go of. The workshop is open to people, across arts disciplines, who like to move and improvise, individually and in relation, and who are attentive to queer sensibilities. Ideas and practices are inspired by Emilyn's book FALLING Through Dance and Life (Bloomsbury 2021).

Bio: Emilyn Claid is a choreographer, writer, director and teacher, working between academic and professional dance contexts, interested in the processes and practices of making movement based performance. She also works as a Gestalt/existential psychotherapist and enquiries from both fields are integrated into practice based research projects. Her career stretches back to the 1960s when she was a ballet dancer and the 1970s when she was co founder of X6 Dance Space in London and co-editor of New Dance Magazine. In the 1980s she was artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre; and in the 1990 worked with Phoenix Dance Company and Candoco Dance Company while performing and producing her own shows such as Virginia Minx at Play (1992). In 1997 she was awarded a PhD and published a book, Yes? No! Maybe… Seductive Ambiguity in Dance Theatre Performance (Routledge 2006). Between 2003-2013 she was Director of BA & MA Choreography at Dartington College of Arts and during the merger with Falmouth University she played a major role in developing the dance and choreography courses.

26.4.2025 

Within both contemporary dance and physical theatre, voice and vocal expressions are often used as independent materiality or as part of a larger and ambiguous multimodal expression. With all due respect to the area of the singing profession, the workshop is defined "as on the side of this" But where the voice, vocal expression together with movement and dance will be the main premise for the workshop's exploration.
Extended vocal techniques are sounds and expressions that clearly differ from beautiful singing within the bel canto tradition. Trained singers can easily produce extended sounds and vocal expressions, but are still not exclusively reserved for this art genre.
Research shows that the vast majority of us use the voice's capacity within a very limited register. The workshop will therefore be an alternative to exploring the artistic possibilities of the voice. The philosopher Jacques Ranciere highlights the disruptive nature of art and refers to art as a break or dissent in the sensual and that with it we can see the outside world in new ways. The workshop generally relates to the concept of dissent, with us sharing a practice that contrasts the norm and "disrupts" the expected or accepted. Instead of looking for answers and "correct" solutions, we use wonder, associations and our sensory apparatus as reflection tools.

The workshop is suitable for everyone with some practice in the performing arts, like dance and theater, and for everyone with an interest in movement and voice. It is not necessary to be a professional performer. The workshop is open to everyone from 16 years old. Students in drama and theater or dance, singers, and others who like to use their voice, for example in the choir are very welcome!

Bio: Kartsein Solli is a performing artist, senior lecturer in acting, drama and theater communication. Trained pre-school teacher and as an actor in theater and mime from schools in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Solli is a very experienced artist and educator. In 1992 he received the Press's Critics Award for dance and from 1997 he became a permanent recipient of the State's Guaranteed Income for Artists. Since 2009, employed as artistic director at Seance, center for art production at Volda University College. Solli has taught and given a number of courses and seminars for the professional performing arts field and amateurs in dance and theater for almost 30 years. With his artistic and educational practice, he has his own knowledge of what concerns interdisciplinary forms of expression. He creates unique performances that have always garnered good reception and recognition. He has taught in high school, the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo and Volda University College, the School of Contemporary Dance / the College of Dance Arts, Acting Line Leader at the Academy of Performing Arts in Fredrikstad, the Oslo School of the Arts, the Norwegian Ballet School, Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Danza. etc. Held positions as head of the Actors' Association's scholarship committee, board member of Scenekunstbruket and the School of Contemporary Dance / the College of Dance Arts. Committee member in the professional council for the Cultural School Bag and dance committee in the Norwegian Cultural Council. Karstein Solli productions have toured with performances throughout Scandinavia and visited festivals in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, USA, Chile and Brazil. In recent years, much of his art production has been aimed at young children aged 0-5 years with performances such as Se min kloje (0-3 years), Readymade Baby (0-3 years), Sjelden Fugl (3-5 years) and Baby stroller (0-3 years) commissioned by Teater Innlandet. 2018/19 StemmeStammen (0-3 years) and is current in 2023-24 with Rock me baby (0-5 years). Both co-produced by Bærum Kulturhus. Solli is also a sought-after mentor and supervisor on projects for children and young people.

15.01 - 22.01 - 29.01.2025

My movement practice has a playful approach to improvisation and contact improvisation, with different methods that are continually in development. In these Praxis classes I will focus on partnering and different scores/games that spark creativity. There will be both specific tasks and more exploratory work in these classes.

Bio: Andrea Winsnes is a dance artist with a special interest in improvisation and contact improvisation. She is also a DJ, and is curious about the role that music might play in the creation of a collective movement landscape. Andrea has a bachelors degree in contemporary dance from the Norwegian College University of Dance (2015-2018), and has been based in Trondheim since 2022. She is a part of the Praxis Trondheim team, and works as a dance artist and producer for Danselaboratoriet and Danseteateret. She has danced for Kari Hoaas Productions and Elle Sofe Compant amongst others, and has created the project “Stillhet og mørke” with colleague Cecilie S. Ålskog.

05.02 - 12.02 - 19.02.2025

Exploring and learning about the human body and how its different parts collaborate has a strong and almost magical impact on our presence and therefore on our movements. Opening our body to this state of awareness can enrich, strengthen and inspire the way we dance. The starting point to each class is a topic related to the human body from a small simple detail to larger connections in the organism. The theme will be explored through games, free physical exploration, simple repetitive exercises and improvisation. In some classes we explore the themes in connection with a partner. Taking care of ourselves in order to take care of each other can be an interesting way to learn something about our own bodies. The classes become an open space for our own exploration, physical reflection and an opportunity for taking and giving care. We will explore 3 different topics. In class 1 we follow the baby's development from the floor up to walking. There is a lot to learn and read about this development and there is a certain idea of what is “normal” or not, but at the same time it is something that is extremely individual. Each baby takes their own journey and path up in their own timing. I have written down the very personal journey that my child Erle took. We take this journey as inspiration and will explore and work with the movements I observed. In class 2 we are up and ready to play. We will start with some fun awareness exercises and play with balls, gravity, momentum, the forces that move us and the movement they create. In class 3 we explore the listening between 2 bodies and the potential around it. We will include some of the explorations and discoveries of the first 2 classes. 

All bodies are welcome and most of the explorations and exercises lend themselves to be adapted to different bodies and needs. In class 1 there are several specific movements we will explore and adapting them could take more effort than on days with more open suggestions, but we can take time and make space for it. Feel free to send a message to Praxis Trondheim if you would like to know more to decide if the class fits your needs and interests.

Bio: Nina Wollny studied modern and contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, now Codarts, in the Netherlands. After her graduation in 2002 she joined the company anoukvandijk dc and has worked there as dancer, rehearsal director and artistic assistant for more than 10 years. Since 2012 Nina has been working with different choreographers in Europe amongst others she is regularly performing and collaborating with German choreographer Jenny Beyer at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. In Norway she works with Mia Habib Productions, BodyCartographyProject and others. Nina started teaching when she was 15 as a way to deepen her own understanding of dance. In 2004 she became a Countertechnique teacher and has taught those classes and workshops in many different countries and places until 2021. Now she is following her own interests in sharing movement and dance and how it relates to the form and function of the human body, through a process that is not looking for a solution or a universal answer, but rather exploring a practice of finding questions together and letting them resonate in the individual's body and movement

02.04 - 09.04 - 23.04.2025

In my practise I draw inspiration from different techniques within movement and performing art with a focus on creative flow, improvisation and interaction. We will work on finding a strong bodily presence, with movement qualities, and do playful tasks to help us develop our own movement patterns. During the two hours I hope the participants will feel the joy of movement, reach a state of meditative flow, and experience a playful curiosity about the body and its possibility for movement! Everyone is welcome, whether you walk, run, roll or crawl. If you are a professional movement artist, movement enthusiast, or just curious for a new experience  that’s healthy for the body and soul.  

Bio: Gunhild Løhre is a Norwegian dance artist, choreographer and filmmaker with a main interest in interdisciplinary projects, integrated dance, dance on film and the fusion of different dance styles, methods and expressions. Løhre graduated from LIPA in 2014, before working with the Francesca Selva company in Siena, Italy. She now works freelance as a performer, creator and teacher. Løhre is also a dance artist in Danselaboratoriet, a dance company with people with and without functional variations. Major projects she has worked on include Solidarnosc/Solidarity (Poland/Norway EEA project 2020-2023) Quantum Entanglement (2020- Norway/England) Brainfeels (dance film and artistic research 2020- ) and Body/Bodies to dance (2022-) . Løhre is concerned with who can enjoy the art of dance, and has danced both with, and created for, people of different backgrounds aged 3-100 https://www.gunhildlohre.com/ 

30.04 - 07.05 - 14.05.2025

My practice explores the connection between humans and nature and I often draw inspiration from my surroundings. How does the landscape affect my movements? How can my body merge into the landscape? In these three classes, we will explore different sites through dance improvisation and experience landscapes and freedom of movement collectively. By taking inspiration from the environment through listening, sensing, and moving, we create greater awareness of our surroundings and our body. Join the movement journey supported by wind, water, trees, and earth and discover our own body landscapes.

Wednesdays 30.04 - 07.05 - 14.05.2025 9:30am - 11:30am at different outdoor locations in Trondheim

30.4.2025 @Ladeparken aka Sirkusparken Meeting point: red entrance gate

7.5.2025 @Ladehammeren Meeting point: Stone sculpture “Equilibrium North” on top of the hill

14.5.2025 @Ladestien Meeting point: Talerøret/Megaphone

BIO:  Anna Thu Schmidt is a dance artist with a focus on dance improvisation, interdisciplinary projects, site-specific work, and integrated dance. Anna holds a B.A. in Dance in Education (ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem/Netherlands) and M.A. in Dance Studies (NTNU Trondheim/ Norway). Anna has been based in Trondheim since 2017 after living in Germany, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. She leads ImproDans Trondheim and Samtidsdans for voksne Trondheim, started up PRAXIS Trondheim and Ecstatic Dance in Trondheim, and teaches Yoga, Monochord play, and Contact Improvisation. One of her main performance projects is ‘How to read water’.

https://www.annathuschmidt.com

21.08 + 28.08 + 04.09.2024

Wednesday 21.08.24: Wheelchair - A creative tool in dance
A wheelchair is often a symbol of something sad. Are you curious about the possibilities a wheelchair offers? Then this is the workshop for you!
Elen shows her performance where she talks about her wheelchair. Then she shows an improv in which she uses the wheelchair creatively. Participants get the opportunity to try out the wheelchair and explore the parts on it. Each participant shows a small improvisation with the wheelchair, or one or more parts of it.

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Wednesday 28.08.24: S(t)olo
What possibilities and limitations does a chair have? What different characteristics do different chairs have? If you like improvisation, this is the workshop for you!
Elen shows her own s(t)olo from "Stol på meg". Each participant uses their own chair, and creates a small sequence with it. Then all participants show their s(t)olo to everyone at the end.

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Wednesday 04.09.24: Dance to text - Text to dance
Elen talks about her experience with writing and dancing on social media. What comes first, the lyrics or the dance? What opportunities does dance offer on social media? What limitations?
The participants create their own lyrics and dance to them. Or: dancing after an idea or impulse, and writing the lyrics afterwards. Free choice. They then show the dance to everyone.
If you enjoy writing and want to know how the joy of writing can be combined with dancing, this is for you!

Bio: Elen Øyen is a Norwegian dance artist who works as a producer and dance artist for DansiT choreographic center. She is a dancer in Danselaboratoriet, which she has been since 2005. Elen was born with spina bifida, and uses a wheelchair. She dances in her wheelchair and on the floor. Her main focus is improvisation. Elen has a close collaboration with professor at NTNU and founder of Danselaboratoriet Tone Pernille Østern. She has lectured at conferences, seminars and festivals in Norway and abroad. She has developed broad experience in dance, and worked on the research project "Available artistry?" from autumn 2021 to spring 2023

18.09 - 25.09 - 02.10.2024 

Welcome to fun juggling classes where we explore dance with objects. This is an excellent arena for developing your sense of coordination and playfulness with objects. There are no limits to what juggling can be, so here you can bring your own movements and create your own repertoire. No prior knowledge is required to participate.

Bio: Julian Sæther started juggling self-taught at the age of 7 and has now been throwing, catching, and manipulating objects for more than 20 years. He got into circus through the culture school in Trondheim and went on to get a BA in Circus and Theatre Arts from the prestigious university L'Académie Fratellini in the outskirts of Paris. Now he is looking for new ways of using the art of juggling to express the humanity within, often looking to other art forms like dance, theatre, and music to get inspired and approach the stage from new angles.

13.11 + 20.11 + 27.11.2024

In these three classes, I want to work on the relationship between the stage actors' body and

materials/figures/objects.

We will look for, and become aware of, how objects and figures can influence the actor/dancer

movements. How can an object be in dialogue with a character?

We will examine how every physical material/object has its own energy and

possibility of movement. How can the object live its own life? How do we become more conscious of the use

of props? What is the difference between animation and manipulation?

There will be both individual work and group work.

Bio: Anne Marit has worked for 40 years at Cirka Teater, both as a playwright/director and an actor, and has created over 50 productions. "Space, figures, and the actors' physical expression are the most important building blocks when we at Cirka Teater write our own performances." http://circateater.no

23.08 + 24.08.2024

In this workshop series in Trondheim, you'll engage in individual and partner activities, progressing from basic movements to more complex ones, with an emphasis on improvisation and floorwork. The goal is to improve your movement skills, enhance your body awareness, and increase your physical versatility.

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On Friday, David will introduce task-oriented training. This session is designed for everyone and encourages you to approach movement as a puzzle to be solved, activating your creativity and improving movement quality.

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On Saturday, join the advanced session to dive deeper into movement exploration principles. This workshop will cover more material at a faster pace, focusing on advanced movements and improvisation.

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Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your movement practice!

Bio: David Magyel, originally from Slovakia and now based in Bergen, Norway, is a professional jazz pianist and movement coach. His approach to practicing movement is influenced by his background in martial arts, including Capoeira and Jiu-jitsu, as well as his exploration of contemporary dance and contact improvisation. David integrates these disciplines into a unique style that emphasizes aesthetics, playfulness, and fluidity in movement. His teaching method is inspired by greats like Ido Portal, Jon Yuen, and Nil Tiesner.

14.09.2024

Workshopen heter Building up ECSTASY. Den er tilknyttet til forestillingen ECSTASY som ble spilt på OJDF, SØaR, DiG og IN2IT International Dance Festival i 2021. Workshopen har fokuset på repetisjon, transformasjon og utholdenhet. Vi bruker repetisjon som et mantra for å roe ned hjernen og generere energi. Målet med workshopen er å dele mine tilnærmingsmetoder i det å bygge opp ECSTASY, både som forestilling og som tilstand.

Bio: Ornilia Ubisse (33) born and raised in Mozambique where she studied dance at the Escola Nacional de Danca and worked as a dancer and dance teacher. She has a BA in dance with specialization in modern and contemporary dance from the Norwegian Academy of Dance with an Erasmus in Austria, at Anton Bruckner Private University (2017). As a performer, Ubisse has been on tours, productions and collaborations with choreographers such as Editta Braun, Manuel Pelmus, Ingri Fiksdal, Olive Bierringa, Mia Habib, De Naive and Roza Moshtaghi. Ubisse has been on school tours and DKS with Nutopia, Frikar X and TekstLab with various productions. As a TekstLab Incubator participant, she has choreographed and performance two solo projects "Rua 57" and "Chaos in the Box".  Ubisse established Kronos Dance Company, with whom she has choreographed 4 pieces, ECSTASY beeing the last one.

05.10.2024 

PRAXIS TRONDHEIM/IMPRODANS TRONDHEIM

Welcome to our OPEN STAGE as part of the Contact Impro Festival at DansiT in collaboration with ImproDans Trondheim.

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The open stage offers a platform for performances based on contact improvisation or related to the principles of CI to shed a spotlight on CI as an art form. Here dancers and participants of the festival get the opportunity to present artistic works in front of an audience. This can be a performance based on contact improvisation or a score to improvise in a performative way and to share with the audience.

This event is free and open to the public.

16.10.2024

PRAXIS Trondheim invites you to an open conversation about how we can create an art field that tolerates children and embraces the role of parents. This event is for all artists – whether you have children, plan to have children, work with artists who have children, employ artists with children or have been a child once. We want to explore the topic from different perspectives and brainstorm practical solutions and future visions together through conversations, play, physical movement tasks and awareness exercises.

Among other things, we will address specific challenges, such as working hours that do not always fit with the nursery, work trips - with or without children, unpredictability in working life and finances, physical stress in the role of performer (and parent).
Join us for an exchange about how we can make the art world more inclusive for parents and their children. Can we create a rich and creative working environment that embraces the whole spectrum of life.

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Welcome to an inspiring conversation with PRAXIS Trondheim!

Where: Mezzaninen, Rosendal Theater, 

Hosts: PRAXIS Trondheim Andrea Winsnes & Nina Wollny

FREE EVENT

Open to everyone! It is possible to bring children if you need or want to.

Supported by Kulturrådet, Trondheim Kommune and Rosendal Teater

19.10.2024 

My artistic practice, in meeting with others, is primarily about sharing experiences,

share dance history, art history, share interests and try to create a space where everyone can be with shaping a workshop they can feel ownership of. I am concerned with micro and macro trauma within the art field of dance. The workshop offers sensory and practical alternatives to known and minor "traumas within dance".

We can work our ass off, without losing our ass.

Bio: Ken Bruun (he/him/his)

Ken is from Inderøy and is a dance artist with strong roots in modern dance techniques and contemporary dance techniques. He has his education from London contemporary dance school and Amsterdam university of the arts. After graduating, Ken has worked as performing dance artist in various Nordic dance groups, constellations and projects such as; Danish Dance Theatre, Skåne Dance Theater, Cullberg Ballet, Helsinki Dance Company, K. Kvarnström & Co., Anna & Co., Gunnilla Heilborn, Bjørn Säfsten, FORSworks, Helena Franzen, Lisa Riisu, Marie Topp, Rachel Tess, Mirko Guido and others. Ken teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation and composition. After an artistic process with Benoit Lachambre (FR/CA) in 2010, he started, to a greater extent, to explore the sentient body. Kenneth has for several years worked with a physical artistic practice, alone or together with others, where dance, choreography, space, poetry, music, photography and visual art are juxtaposed practices based on the sensing body, in order to create movement, or to move.

01.11 + 02.11.2024

Klein Technique™ is a slow paced movement education and re-education, that can be an underpinning for all movement styles, improvisations, athletics, and for the general health of the body in everyday movement.

Klein Technique™ works at the level of the bones, to align the bones using the muscles of deep postural support.

The work is suitable for all bodies and all levels of movement experience. Whether you feel healthy or injured, are experiencing physical pain somewhere or feel in great in shape - you are more than welcome to join!

Each individual will be carefully supervised so they can work at their own level and pace.

Bio: Amy Pender is a Norwegian dance artist and Klein Technique™ teacher based in Drøbak and Oslo (Norway). 

She has a BA of Modern Theatre dance at Amsterdam University of the Arts, and has since her graduation in 2014, been working around Europe with choreographers and companies such as Bodytalk (DE), David Zambrano (BE), Spitfire dance company (CZ), Monica Münoz (IR), Martijn Joling (NO), Hagit Yakira and Katrin Gunnarsdottir. 

Since she started practising Klein Technique™ in 2013, the work has grown to be a large part of her practice as a dance artist. 

After several years of being based in Berlin and having the chance to practice the work with teacher Hanna Hegescheidt on an almost daily basis, she in 2019, decided to move back to Norway and was at the same time accepted as a student of the Klein Technique™ Teacher Cerification Programme led by Susan Klein. In 2023 she graduated as Norway´s first teacher of the work.

06.03 +13.03 + 20.13.2024

En kinesisk kampkunst for god helse og indre fred
Denne workshoppen vil undervises av Frode Strand Karlsen, hovedinstruktør ved Trondheim Taiji Senter. Han har 16 års erfaring med kampkunsten Taijiquan. Gjennom praksisen Taijiquan jobber vi med balanse, koordinasjon og tilstedeværelse via en bevegelsesform som tar ca 10 min å gjennomføre. Der hver bevegelse flyter over i hverandre. Taijiquan er en form for meditasjon i bevegelse og den gir rom for å se innover og finne vår indre fred. Erfaringsmessig ser vi at Taijiquan har overføringsverdi til mange ulike bevegelsesformer. Vi hadde blant annet en workshop for dansere i Australia, der det å bare få lov å slippe ut magen var en stor glede for mange.
Hjertelig velkommen

More info via: https://taijitrondheim.no/

24.04 + 08.05 + 15.05.2024

“My personal praxis is centered around always meeting the body and self where it is at in any given day, understanding the needs and working from there with what is, embodying patience and seeing possibilities rather than limitations.”
In the workshops we will explore some easygoing breath and bodyweight principles to restore neutrality in the body. We will do some basic pole training and introduction to pole, as well as choreography with the pole. There might be room for some creative work and maybe we will try on some pole dance heels as well.

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Additional info: for choreography and floor work tights are great, but for trying moves on the pole itself, sitting/climbing etc. please bring shorts. No body lotion, hand cream, hair oil or similar on the same day as pole training, it will ruin the grip.

Bio: Astrid Elisabeth Hofstad is a part time pole- and dance teacher, living and exploring life between chronic illness and wellness. She has education from Bårdar Akademiet and University of Bergen. Her main reasons for moving is to nourish the body and improve life quality, to ground and create room for energies to move better both in and out of the body, as well as exercising the most human quality of all; our innate creativity.

22.05 + 29.05 + 05.06.2024

In these Praxis classes we will learn the basic movements of AcroYoga for all three roles of flyer, base and spotter and we will experience how quickly we can learn fun and impressive tricks in a safe way.

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AcroYoga is a movement style that was developed about 2003 partly by Eugene Poku and Jessica Goldberg (AcroYoga Montreal), partly by Jason Nemer and Jenny Sauer-Klein (AcroYoga International) that merges acrobatics with yoga and also incorporates dance, circus moves, calisthenics and cheerleading. Most of the asanas, transitions, washing machines and tricks are performed in a group of three with the roles of base, flyer and spotter. The flyer fly on the base and the spotter provide safety measures and other support. A system has been made so that this way of playing is accessible for everyone and at the same time a large number of schools has been developed, focusing on various aspects.

Bio: Bjørn Hagen started his intensive yoga journey in 2019 with ashtanga, pilates, ballet and other yoga stiles and has taken a 200h yoga teacher training at Zenit in Trondheim, a 200h AcroYoga teacher training with Poku and Goldberg in Montral and a 100h AcroYoga teacher training with Acro Way in Sweden. He has been teaching AcroYoga at Zenit and Trondheim Pole Studio and at various workshops and festivals and has a goal of building a strong AcroYoga community in Trondheim as well as building his own skills in a range of movement styles.

02.03.2024

How does composition arise in the body and its environment? Olive will share an introduction to Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Score. Tuning Score is an improvisational composition practice and performance research. Focusing on vision, touch, and hearing, the scores and practices provoke spontaneous compositions that make evident how each of us senses and makes sense of movement, initiating a playful and rigorous dialogue-in-action. Learn more here: https://bodycartography.org/portfolio/tuning-scores/

Bio: Olive Bieringa is a dance, performance and visual artist working at the intersection of social and creative practice, pedagogy, and healing. Together with Otto Ramstad she creates work as BodyCartography Project making performances, films, installations and workshops. She is a certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and Danceability. She directs the Body-Mind Centering Somatic Movement Education certification in Melbourne, Australia as Program and Educational Directors of Somatic Education Australia.

06.04.2024

Very often we stop our creative impulses, because we are afraid of how the surroundings will respond to us.
With the support of The Movement Map of The 5 Rhythms, we will explore how we can follow and release our creative impulses without censoring ourselves. To embody our creativity - Finding liberation and expressing yourself effortless. Each of The 5 Rhythms: 
Flowing- Staccato -Chaos- Lyrical- Stillness contains different qualities that our body intuitively remembers. In this workshop we will explore the quality of each rhythm as an organic Wave of movement, impulses and energy. We will move through two WAVES of The 5 Rhythms. The first one, we reconnect with our body and our own impulses
The second WAVE we will explore our spontaneous impulses as encounters with the group and in couples and trios. 

Before we embark on this journey together, give yourself some time to reflect on these questions:
“What do you want to explore and experience both personally and artistically?”
“What are you longing for?”

Bio: Bio: Ann-Cathrin Hertling is a genre-free artist emphasizing on experience and interaction. She works collectively. Her collaborations span from musicians, poets, performers, writers, dancers, others artists, peers and fellow humans. For over 20 years, she has investigated, in the realm of art, as the possibility to create new ways of being together. With ephemeral materials such as time, process, interaction, body, place, space, music, dance, impro and relations. She creates long durational living artworks, in various private and public spaces. Not as a performance, but as a state of mind, in the form of temporary communities, which transcends time, so that new realities can emerge. Hertling is executive and artistic director in collaboration with musician Siri Gjære on the cross-aesthetic platform Wild at Art. She is also part of the artist duo Hertling & Andreassen See:www.wildatart.no & https://elinandreassen.no/hertling%20%26%20andreassen.html

For almost two decades, in parallel with her artistry, she has an all over the world practice in the dance and movement meditation 5Rhythms ® She is a certified teacher in 5Rhythms ® waves level, in the movement map: 

FLOWING - STACCATO - CHAOS - LYRICAL - STILLNESS ®

https://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Ann-Cathrin+Hertling

17.04.2024

Velkommen til Round Table Talk med PRAXIS Trondheim og Sindri Runudde.

PRAXIS Trondheim har invitert den svenske dansekunstneren Sindri Runudde til å bli med oss på 4. utgave av Round Table Talks. Sindri er koreograf av Cosmetic Demons: A choreographic salon som også vil bli presentert under Multiplié dansefestival 2024.

«Hva vil det si å danse for deg selv, for noen andre?» 

Med utgangspunkt i dette åpne spørsmålet ønsker vi å bli bedre kjent med kunstneren og hens arbeid. Vi vil følge noen bevegelsesinvitasjoner før vi reflekterer og diskuterer tematikken i fellesskap.

PRAXIS Trondheim er et initiativ av og for trondheimsbaserte scenekunstnere for å skape et rom for å dele kunstneriske praksiser. Med Round Table Talks tilbys en plattform for utveksling og diskusjon rundt spesifikke emner krydret med bevegelsesinvitasjoner.

Arrangementet er åpent for alle!

FREE EVENT

08.06.2024

Dette er en parkour workshop. Det vil si at vi jobber med å finne unike bevegelsesmuligheter, som bruker omgivelsene våre, som benker, gjerder, skulpturer, trær osv. Vi kommer til å vandre rundt, og besøke mange plasser i løpet av timen. Til å begynne med vil man bli introdusert til noen bevegelser, som er effektivt for å forflytte seg, forbi, over, under, og oppå ting. Vanskelighetsgraden vil være modifiserbar: noen av bevegelsene har min mormor gjort, og noen av dem kan ta flere år å lære seg. Vi varmer også opp med å øve litt på fall-kompetanse. Videre skal vi bruke dette bevegelses repertoaret til å lære en omgivelses-orientert metodikk for å forbedre bevegelsene man allerede kan. Dette utforsker vi videre, med hvordan man kan tilpasse bevegelsene til unike omgivelser, og til slutt hvordan man kan skape unike bevegelser i samspill med omgivelsene.

Underveis fokuserer vi på de unike aspektene av mentaliteten til parkour.

Til slutt vil vi endre litt på metodikken og mentaliteten for å se hvordan dette kan brukes i dans.

Bio: Martin Haugland Sundby har undervist parkour i 10+ år og jobber som sirkus-pedagog hos kulturskolen. Har undervist, og jobbet med scenekamp/stuntmann, som danser på mange prosjekter og har vært koreograf for alle ovenfor nevnte disipliner. Han liker å leke, improvisere, og skape samspill i det han jobber med.

04.05.2024

Wei-An's practice of ‘The Art of Falling’ is part navigation of space-time curvature, part happy accident. Growing up fidgety, Wei-An fell down a lot, and eventually, he figured out that falling down was both fun and a good way to not get hurt.
Today, he continues to explore falling for the pleasure it provides: a momentary sense of weightlessness, the thrill and speed of giving in to gravity, and the discovery of possible ways out of a tricky situation. It is a practice of going along rather than fighting what's happening, of learning to trust long years of training, and keeping an eye out for the next fun ride out there. 

The aim of this workshop is to introduce fundamental technical skills and ideas about falling. These are tools that find practical application as a safety net for learning new physical skills, or in the construction of floorwork patterns. After the introduction of these techniques and ideas, we'll practice applying them in exercises around rolling and bailing out of tricky situations. Finally, the workshop will culminate with the learning of a movement sequence that demonstrates some of the ways in which falling can be used.

Bio: Wei-An has spent his whole life falling down; it's a by-product of the belief that he can, even when he can’t – whether that meant trying to spin on his head or backflip before he was ready, or learn how to snowboard on his own. And though he may not be the best at those activities, he's become quite good at falling. He has, in fact, built his contemporary practice around his love-hate relationship with gravity, and the connections this relationship has with the psychological state of flow. 

A street dancer turned contemporary creator, Wei-An is curious about how his background in breaking might be used to create moods and tell stories that draw the audience into the worlds of his choreography. This, together with his explorations in falling, has taken Wei-An to teach and perform in places such as Vancouver BC, Seoul, Singapore, London, Luxembourg, and more. 

Currently, he is working on a full-length solo, A Reason for Falling, commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore).

Website: theartoffalling.substack.com

Instagram: @thenoisyhwa and @weallfalldown.dance

18.10 + 25.10 + 1.11.2023

Adaptability is key in a world that's constantly in flux. In this workshop, we'll explore the nuances of responding to and thriving in dynamic environments.
Are you intrigued by the art of movement, interaction, and improvisation?
Discover how your body and mind can work in synergy to find innovative solutions.

Workshop Focus Areas:

1. Problem-Solving Skills in Movement:
Learn to approach challenges with agility and creativity through movement. We'll delve into creative games and techniques that stimulate your problem-solving abilities in real-time scenarios. 

2. Optimize Your Movement:
Fine-tune your physical capabilities as we look into movement optimization techniques. (Techniques used are based on neurophysiology and physiotherapy.)

3. Improvisation and Interaction
Embrace spontaneity and the joy of improvisation. Through fun and interactive exercises, you'll develop the ability to think on your feet and collaborate spontaneously.

PRAXIS with Lubomir is open to anyone (regardless of your domain of interest or territory of expertise) looking to explore the beauty of movement and the art of interaction.

Bio: Educated as a physiotherapist and physiologist he is the founder of Kinesthetic Skills - physical therapy, workshops and classes focusing on movement awareness, mobility and performance improvements. He collaborated with a variety of sports clubs, and institutions in Norway and abroad. His workshops are open to anyone, often attended by athletes, performers, yogis, martial artists, and dancers. His source of inspiration/praxis ranges from olympic weightlifting, aikido, and yoga to contact improvisation.

13.09 + 20.09 + 27.09.2023

En stor del av praksisen min handler om å skape plass og gjøre kroppen klar til å være kreativ på en bæredyktig måte. Jeg liker å tenke at forskjellige kvaliteter og energier eksisterer hele tiden, at det bare handler om å finne en inngang til dem, og det er dette vi skal utforske i denne klassen. Gjennom en blanding av somatiske øvelser, QiGong, improvisasjon og friskriving kan vi åpne luker i oss selv som kan være kilder til bevegelse og innsikt.

Bio: Veslemøy M Frengstad er en dansekunstner fra Trondheim. Hun har en BA i dans fra Universitetet i Stavanger (2020), er utdannet Breath Coach (2022) og studerte skrivekunst på Nansenskolen (22/23). Veslemøys kunstneriske praksis inkluderer bevegelse, lyd, kreativ skriving og tegning.

23.08 + 30.08 + 06.09.2023

5Rytmer® er en unik og original dansepraksis skapt og utviklet av Gabrielle Roth (US).
5Rytmer er en forfriskende, meditativ og livgivende bevegelsesform uten koreografi, teknikk og trinn, og kan danses av alle uavhengig av alder, fysisk form, bakgrunn og historie. Dansen følger kroppens syklus og naturlige bevegelser gjennom livsrytmene flyt, stakkato, kaos, lyrisk og stillhet. Denne bølgende energien er en dyp indre flyt, selve livskraften og essensen i alt levende liv.

Dansen har ingen dogmer, ingen religion, ingen fasit. Dansen er ikke en tanke eller en idé, en betraktning eller en konklusjon.

5Rytmer er en kontinuerlig erfaringsbasert dansepraksis der vi møter oss selv og andre mennesker gjennom kroppsnaturens egen visdom. «EMBRACE THE MYSTERY THAT IS YOU»  Gabrielle Roth (1941 – 2012)

Bio: Loan TP Hoang er dansekunstner og performanceartist tilknyttet alternative og aktivistiske miljøer som Hausmania i Oslo, Karlsøy i Troms og Svartlamon i Trondheim. 

Loan har danset 5Rytmer siden 1998 og studert sammen med Alain Allard / Moves into Consciousness, Yaacov Darling Khan / Movement Medicine og Hege Gabrielsen / 5Rytmer Oslo. Våren 2016 fullførte hun sin 5Rytmer Waves lærerutdannelse under veiledning av Jonathan Horan og hovedlærere tilknyttet 5Rhythms Global. 

Gjennom Dans 5Rytmer Trondheim deler Loan denne dansepraksisen med alle mennesker som ønsker å finne en fysisk vei tilbake til frigjørende pust, kropp, dans og bevegelsesglede.

08.09.2023

Velkommen til «Kongen» med Robin fra Gutta som en del av Trondheim Pride fredag ​​8.9 kl 18:00-18:45 på Langhuset, HAVET presentert av PRAXIS Trondheim.

"Kongen" er en performance lecture skrevet av Ann-Christin Kongsness og fremført av drag-alteregoet hennes Robin, kjent fra dragking-gruppa Gutta. Foredraget tar for seg dragkinging som en feministisk praksis der jeg som kvinne kupper maskulinitet som domene og uttrykk. "Kongen" ble først kuratert som en del av Draglaboratoriets bidrag til Karmaklubb på Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival i 2021.

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Gratis arrangement!

*arrangementet vil være på norsk.

Støttet av Trondheim Pride, DansiT og HAVET

Bio: Ann-Christin Kongsness er utdannet innen dans og koreografi, og har også studert estetikk og litteraturvitenskap. Hun jobber som danser, koreograf, skribent og drag king basert i Oslo, og flere av prosjektene hennes har et skeivt fokus; Skeiv Dansekunst – en samtalerekke (https://www.skeivdansekunst.no) og forestillingsserien Butch Tribute (https://www.butchtribute.com), i tillegg til livet som Robin i dragking-gruppa Gutta (IG: @guttaoslo). Kongsness har skrevet flere tekster og foredrag om sammenhengene mellom kjønn, seksualitet, performativitet og dans som har blitt publisert i ulike tidsskrift og antologier. https://annchristinkongsness.com

11.11 + 12.11.2023

Lørdagsfokus:
Noen basiselementer for en akrobatisk tilnærming til bevegelse. Arbeidet blir på ryggsøylen, “oppned” trening og spiraler. Klassen starter med å varme opp kroppen, med hovedfokus på å artikulere ryggsøylen. Dette sammen med et balansefokus og tanken om “tre punkter”. Økta går videre til å utforske spiraler. Deretter beveger vi oss mot en grundig håndstående trening med innslag av hjul. Dette er noe man kommer tilbake til i mange bevegelsesformer, og her får du muligheten til et dypdykk. Før jeg så spicer opp klassen, ved å kombinere håndstående/hjul med spiraler og forflytting. Tilsammen jobber vi med å utvikle vår balanse, plassering, styrke og rom-orientering. For en større frihet og kreativitet i våre bevegelser. 

Søndagsfokus: 

Kontaktimprovisasjon og partneringøvelser knyttet til duetten “E du me mæ?“. Du vil i denne workshopen møte elementær og oppgavebasert kontaktimprovisasjon. Duetten er satt i en teatralsk kontekst, og deltakerne vil få oppgaver relatert til lytting, samarbeid, og ulike måter å hilse på, men også gjensyn med en-metersregelen og “knuter-på-tråden”. Målet er i disse to timene å leke med ordene kontakt og kommunikasjon, og søken etter denne gode forbindelsen som vi alle ønsker i dansen og livet generelt.

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Bio: Ann Kathrin Granhus er en utøvende og skapende dansekunstner og pedagog fra Verdal, Trøndelag. Hun har en variert treningsbakgrunn, fra ulike samtidsdans teknikker, akrobatikk, fysisk teater og ballett. “Jeg trekkes til dans og bevegelsesutforskning fordi jeg opplever at aktiviteten utvikler hele mennesket: fysisk, mentalt, uttrykksmessig, sosialt og kreativt og så gir det så mye glede! “Egen-praksisen startet i slutten av min BA i samtidsdans ved Kunsthøyskolen i Amsterdam. Dette fokuset ble videreutviklet gjennom min dansepedagogisk utdannelse (PPU) og undervisning. Videre som aktivt utøvende danser boende i Verdal de siste årene, har det blitt mye egentrening. Det har da vært ekstra viktig for meg å finne egeninteressen, gleden og motivasjonen i å utforske dans, bevegelse og uttrykk. Jeg elsker heldigvis å utforske håndverket og finner en stor interesse i et mangfold av bevegelses- og uttrykksmuligheter. Mitt skapende/utøvende arbeid og treningspraksis har i løpet av snart 10 år i feltet, derfor fått flere retninger som utfyller hverandre. Denne helgen får dere et lite inntrykk i et par av dem. Jeg håper å gi deg og dere en god treningsøkt, og noen tips og ideer å ta med videre i egen bevegelsepraxis, vi sees!

www.annkathringranhus.com

25.11.2023

This workshop is designed to provide participants with a platform to explore and push the boundaries of their artistry, delving into innovative forms of movement expression. The workshop focuses on various aspects of technique, body awareness, and movement fluency. Participants will delve into the fundamentals of contemporary dance, including body posture, working with body weight, release, locomotion in space and  movement fluency. These classes aim to teach participants how to work with movement in a creative and fun way using Ido Portal-inspired pair exercises, improvisation tasks, and choreographic tools. Through these exercises and tasks, participants will develop their body awareness, coordination, and mobility skills while having fun and be in a constant motion. Improvisation tasks encourage exploration and creativity, while choreographic tools challenge dancers to think outside the box and collaborate with others in the group. Overall, these workshops provide a space for participants to explore dance in a joyful and supportive environment.

Bio: Dance theatre actress, choreographer, dance teacher.

Alumna of the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, Faculty of the Dance Theatre in Bytom (Master of arts).

She has worked, among others with Dawid Żakowski, Zofia Komaska, Rafał Urbacki, Jerzy Stuhr, Brian Michaels, Sopot Dance Theatre, Olga Chajdas, Katarzyna Adamik, Magdalena Wójcik, Wojciech Grudziński, Kat Rampackova, Jana Ryslava, Martin Talaga and Viktoria Makra.

She created choreography for performances such as LAST, Black SQR, River Show, Hamlet no more, (Sztuka Nowa Association), Cracow Monsters (Netflix production) and 2 brown to be Polish.

She is interested in multi-movement art with a deep passion for exploring various forms of physical expression. Her interest lies in creating strong and dynamic movements that are rooted in organic tasks. 

Throught her journey as a dancer she was working with contemporary dance, Polish contemporary dance technique, street dances,club dances, hip-hop, and folklore dances. She also explored movement practices like Movement Culture, physical theater, Authentic Movement, and Body-Mind centering. Ewelina is constantly open to new ways of working and thinking. Her background in anthropology has instilled in me a curiosity to approach topics from various perspectives. I strive to bring a holistic approach to my practice, viewing the human body.

Currently, she cooperates with the Sztuka Nowa association, collective Eufeminy and Deep Control Collective.

09.12.2023

This workshop dives into the TASK-WRITE-REVISE method I developed and used in the Final Project of my Master’s in Dance, R E S P A C E (2021). It is a task based choreographic tool that uses repetition and accumulation to process movement ideas and to build patterns. The piece worked with imagination and space, with the aim to create authentic physical experiences of imagined physical spaces. The workshop approaches these themes only loosely, and aims more to offer an alternative compositional tool.

The method works in a cyclical manner, where a task is decided and executed, and the experience of doing the task is logged through intuitive writing – or alternatively drawing – and then revising the task into a new form. The aim is not to recreate a set movements, but accumulate and build up movement from our sensations, and to keep record of the kinaesthetic, the experienced and the feelings of “right” when improvising. The workshop works as an introduction to the possibilities of the method, but within the 4h frame, it does not aim to produce composition. Although they may always be happy surprises

Bring with you a notebook or paper and a pen.

Bio: Anu Laiho (b. 1996, she/they) is a Finnish Dance Artist and Dance Teacher based in Oslo. She has graduated from the Arts Academy of TUAS (FIN) with a BA in Dance and Dance Pedagogics (2019) and from KHiO (NO) with a MA in Dance (2021). She is part of the multidisciplinary artist collective Montebøllo and sits in the board of the PRAXIS Oslo organisation. Her interests in dance and movement are based in the experienced, repetition and accumulation, as well as the practices of joy and pleasure, and for her most recent artistic project RED, the physical experience of the queer body, the gaze of the other and the object/subject setting of lust. During her studies and as a freelancer she has worked as a dancer, choreographer and researcher with artists such as Lisa Colette Bysheim, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Ingri Fiksdal, Peny Spanou, Sana Khan Niazi and Hagit Yakira. www.anulaiho.com

08.02.2023

“Min praxis har spesielt fokus på å benytte dynamikk, rytme og ulike kvaliteter fra forskjellige teknikker for å gi dansen og danseren et språklig uttrykksform. Vi vil gjøre improvisasjonsøvelser fokusert på å utvikle vårt eget bevegelsesmønster, spesielt med tanke på bevegelseskvaliteter og dynamikk. Øvelsene vil fokusere på tilstedeværelse i egen kropp, samt en bevisstgjøring rundt hvor motivasjonen for bevegelsen kommer fra. Gjennom tekniske øvelser, improvisasjon og koreografi på tvers av sjangre og teknikker, ønsker klassen å gi verktøy for å utvikle seg som en dynamisk og variert danser med et individuelt formspråk. Målet er at danseren selv evner å benytte seg av nye og gamle input, for å nå det store spekteret av bevegelse, og kan sømløst bevege seg imellom.”

Bio: Gunhild Løhre er dansekunstner bosatt i Trondheim, utdannet med en BA honors i utøvende dans fra LIPA (Liverpool). Etter fullført studie danset Løhre med det moderne dansekompaniet Compagnia Fransesca Selva i Siena, Italia i 2015. Hun jobber nå freelance som dansekunstner og koreograf med base i Trondheim. Nåværende prosjekter er som koreograf for “Yggdrasil” i tillegg til eget prosjekt, Solidarnosc/Solidaritet. Løhres nylige engasjementer inkluderer danser for “Elastic Bonding” ved Multiplié dansefestival, “Quantum Entanglement”, og den selv-produserte forestillingen “Min virkelighet”.

15.02.2023

Et samlende begrep for min praksis og navnet på min research er «Adaptable body», kort fortalt handler det om å tilegne seg en funksjonell, allsidig og tilpasningsdyktig kropp ved hjelp av ulike verktøy. Det er en praksis som er inspirert av ulike bevegelsesmiljøer som capoeira, parkour, BJJ, fighting monkey, playfight, catabatics osv. der jeg henter ut metoder som jeg ser på som bærekraftige og blander det med egen floorwork-praksis. Vi vil jobbe med funksjonell bevegelse som styrker og utfordrer nervesystemet, adaptive leker i par for å jobbe med både fokus, elastisitet, løsningsorientering og koordinasjon. Generelt utforskende arbeid med partner som handler om å bli kjent med egne og andre kroppers muligheter. 

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Det vil være en fysisk klasse men det krever ingen forkunnskaper som danser, kun et åpent sinn og en lyst til å teste og prøve ut nye måter å bevege seg på.

Bio: Karoline Ellingsen Wheeler er utdannet danser fra Universitetet i Stavanger og Spin Off Forstudium i Dans. Hun har aktivt søkt ulike bevegelsesmiljøer for å tilegne seg en allsidig praksis med floorwork som kjerne. Hun har vært utøvende danser for blant annet Inaki Azpillaga i Brussel, Kiani del Valle i København, reist med egen soloforestilling til Portugal og Russland. Driver sitt eget kompani; Kompani Morell med skuespiller Emilie Mordal, som fokuserer på scenekunst for barn og unge. Kompaniets andre produksjon ‘’FORELSKA!’’ skal på turné i DKS våren 21. Karoline jobber også som utøver for Cirka Teater, underviser freelance for blant annet Khio i Oslo og fast for Kulturskolen Trondheim.

1.3 + 8.3 + 15.3.2023

Min bevegelsespraksis bygger på lek og improvisasjon, alene og i kontaktarbeid. I løpet av tre praxis-klasser vil jeg dele mine favorittmetoder og strukturer for denne typen leken improvisasjon. Grunnlaget vil være å først jobbe spesifikt med kontaktarbeid. Deretter vil vi jobbe med noen gruppe-strukturer som handler om å lytte, gi og ta plass. Til slutt vil vi sette noe materiale basert på metodene vi har jobbet med. Det blir tre klasser med lek, utforsking, mye bevegelse og deilig musikk.

Bio: Andrea Winsnes er utdannet samtidsdanser, og har nylig flyttet tilbake til Trondheim etter syv år i Oslo. Hun har jobbet som utøvende danser, dansepedagog og skaper egne danseprosjekter. Andrea er spesielt interessert i kontaktarbeid og gruppedynamikker, og utforsker ofte dette i eget koreografisk arbeid/prakisis. I egen praksis er hun opptatt av relasjon mellom musikk og bevegelse, og kontrasten mellom stillhet og bevegelse.

29.03.2023

" Since I was a child I have always been fascinated by learning about how the human body works and how the different parts collaborate. When I started dancing and throughout my career as a dancer and teacher it has become more and more clear that it seems to have such a strong and sometimes even magical impact on our movement, presence, perception and therefor influences and enriches the way we dance. 

Each day the class will be based on one topic related to how the human body works from a small simple detail to bigger connections within the organism. Each topic will be explored by looking at visual material, free and guided physical exploration and simple repetitive exercises. In the end we will have the option for an open session where we combine the different information and material we explored or gradually accumulate the material to build an energetic movement phrase, that plays with all levels of space, speed, flow and the forces that move us. The class is build to be open for all kinds of movers and gives space for everyone to join and still follow their own wishes and needs. Since I have done a lot of online dancing and teaching during the last year which has reminded me again of how important it is to really connect to the space you are in, we will also focus on this during the in person classes. Rediscovering the obvious like it is something new. Enjoying the value of being local and at the same time connecting to the world in a small way or to the entire Universe depending on where we want to take it that day. Looking forward to start the day together and dance with you."

Bio: Nina Wollny studied modern and contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Codarts, in the Netherlands. After her graduation in 2002 she joined the company anoukvandijkdc and has worked there as dancer, rehearsal director and artistic assistant for more than 10 years. She performed in almost all of Anouk van Dijk’s work during that time, including the collaborations with director and playwright Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk’s first work as director of Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia. When she was 15 she started to teach dance, first mainly Ballet and discovered how much she enjoys teaching, sharing dance and performing alike. Since 2004 she is a passionate teacher of the Countertechnique and is regularly teaching at dance academies, companies and studios for professional dancers around the world. Since 2012, Wollny is performing and collaborating regularly with German choreographer Jenny Beyer at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. Since 2016 working with Mia Habib Productions , most recently she is part of the piece "How to die -Inopiné”

12.4 + 19.4 + 26.4.2023

For Tomas Vikeland er House som dansestil: frihet, selvtillit, samhold og glede. Dette ønsker han å dele med flere.

På dette kurset vil deltakerne lære:
Teori:
- House musikkens særpreg
- Opphavet til House som dansestil og musikksjanger
- Hvordan gjenkjenne house-dans
Praksis:
- Hvordan improvisere dans til house-musikk
- Hvordan danse house sammen med andre
- Hvordan danse house på en scene

Kurset vektlegger det å lytte til musikken, samhandling med andre og improvisasjon. Disse verktøyene vil gi deltakerne forståelse for det som utgjør kjernen av house som dansestil.

Tomas har som mål å lære sine deltakere hvordan å bli selvstendige, undersøkende og kreative dansere. Dette reflekteres i hans undervisningsstil som inneholder en god blanding av undersøkende spørsmål, med både praktisk og teoretisk bakgrunn.

Bio: BIO: Tomas "Hi-Lo" Vikeland
Tomas har alltid vært glad i musikk og bevegelse, men det var først da han oppdaget dansemiljøet i Trondheim at han fant tilhørigheten i street dance. Hans nysgjerrighet på det sosiale, kulturen og nye måter å tolke musikk og bevege seg gjorde at han raskt begynte å reise ut for å lære seg mer. I dag er Tomas en aktiv utøver innen hip hop, popping, locking og house og har siden 2009 undervist disse dansestilene. Han sørger for å gi nøyaktig og riktig informasjon om dansen og kulturene den oppsto i. Han har som mål å inspirere unge og gamle til å danse mer, og ønsker å gjøre sine elever til selvstendige dansere, med kunnskapen og verktøyene de trenger for å utvikle seg videre etter klassene. Han verdsetter mangfoldighet og setter gjensidig respekt mellom elever, lærere og dansere høyt. Han har øye for detaljer og kommer med relevant og konstruktiv kritikk i tråd med dansestilen som øves. Hans danseklasser består som regel av varierte øvelser, oppgaver og leker for å gi elevene en bred forståelse av dansen, det sosiale og kulturen mens de samtidig kan ha det gøy.

10.05.2023

"My practice combines contemporary dance with dance improvisation and contact improvisation that provides a playful approach to choreographic processes. I am particularly interested in the individual movement language of each participant and the relationship between the bodies and the space. This will be explored by examining different movement qualities within improvisation and composition tasks. Through movement meditation, we create body awareness, get to know our own movement patterns and connect to ourselves and the space around us. The class includes improvisation tasks which will then be transformed by the participants and serve as a base for a movement dialogue with each other.”

Bio: Anna Thu Schmidt is a Trondheim-based dance artist who focuses on site-specific performances, improvisation, interdisciplinary projects and integrated dance. Anna holds a BA in Dance in Education from ArtEZ (Netherlands) and an MA in Dance Studies from NTNU. Her work is often inspired by other cultures, as well as the connection and communication between humans and nature. Her interest in dance's relationship with other art forms has led to international collaborations and research into the interaction between dance and installation art. Anna works as a dance artist and producer in the dance companies Danselaboratoriet and Danseteateret, leads ImproDans Trondheim and Samtidsdans for Voksne in Trondheim and teaches yoga at Zenit. annathuschmidt.com

24.03.2023

Welcome to the Round Table Talk with Praxis Trondheim. We have invited Icelandic choreographer Katrin Gunnarsdóttir to talk about her work ALDA, which is inspired by the theme: women's collective physical labour. We are very excited for her and one of the dancers from ALDA to share their experiences and to open a conversation around questions like:

What does physical labour mean for female dancers?

What was and is it like to work as a professional dancer?

What challenges are we facing now and in the future?

How to make a living as a performing artist and survive on the market?

What is needed to create a healthy work environment?

What can we learn from the international scene?

How to build a supportive community in Trondheim?

Praxis Trondheim is an initiative by and for Trondheim-based performing artists to create a space for sharing artistic practices. With the Round Table Talks we offer a platform for exchange and discussion around specific topics spiced with some movement invitations.

Bio: Katrin Gunnarsdóttir Katrín Gunnarsdóttir is an Icelandic choreographer and dancer based in Reykjavík. In her work she is interested in soft encounters, quietness and resonance, relentless ever-changing flow, labour of the dancer and the body as archive. She has made award-winning performances that have been shown around Iceland and in Europe.

Anna Thu Schmidt, er en dansekunstner med fokus på danseimprovisasjon, tverrfaglige prosjekter, stedsspesifikt arbeid og integrert dans. Anna er del av dansekompaniet Danselaboratoriet, leder av ImproDans Trondheim og Samtidsdans for voksne Trondheim. Et av hovedprosjektene hennes er ‘How to read water’.

Karoline Bergh Ellingsen, utøvende scenekunstner, jobber med barn/unge, driver Kompani Morell, underviser i Kulturskolen Trondheim, gjestelærer for blant annet Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo og utøver for Cirka Teater. 

Gunhild Løhre,  Utøvende dansekunstner og koreograf med hovedinteresse for tverrfaglige prosjekter, dans på film og fusjon av ulike dansestiler, metoder og uttrykk. Jobber for tiden blant annet med utviklingen av kortfilmen, ‘Brainfeels’, ‘Quantum Entanglement’  og det polsk norsk/norske samarbeidsprosjektet ‘Solidarnosc/Solidaritet’, i tillegg til andre oppdrag som utøver. 

Nina Wollny, er en utøvende scenekunstner i over 20 år. Hun jobber som danser, performer eller co- choreograph med blant annet Mia Habib Productions , BodyCartography Project, Molitrix og Jenny Beyer Productions. Nina underviser dans til professjonelle dansere siden 2004 for forskjellige danse kompanier, universiteter og dansestudioer i utlandet og i Norge som Proda, Scottish Dance Theater, Skånes danseteater, MaCode/Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt og Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. 

06.05.2023

Enter creativity through movement, dancing and observing. Listening and writing.

Practice:  

DIS COVERING and HanG OUT with own expression.

Bring pen and your notebook .

I am interested in how «the dance» in thinking being and observing is feeding variations of expression in the Great mess of creativity.

Bio: Hanna is a thinker, maker and mover who works as a performer and dancer. Currently for Camilla Tellefen, and in her own Bære duett performance collaboration with artist Kira Senkpiel. She is also part of both BodyCartographys a collection of fluid spaces and resisting extinction productions. Hanna completed her MA in Performance at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (University in Østfold, Norway) in 2020 and has her education from Kunsthøyskolen I Oslo.

.03.06.2023

I denne workshopen får du mulighet til å utforske ditt maskuline uttrykk og drag som kunstform. Hallems metode er basert på ulike drag-uttrykk, klovning, lecoq-metode og metoder av den internasjonalt anerkjente drag- og klovnelæreren Deanna Fleysher. 

Kurset tar utgangspunkt i ditt personlige uttrykk som kunstner og vil hjelpe deg finne DIN indre drag king.

Workshopen inkluderer:

- Utforskning av maskulint kroppsspråk og væremåte
- Innføring i maskulin drag
- Et dypdykk inn i maskulinitet og maskulin sårbarhet
- Teknikker for å engasjere publikum

- Improvisasjoner designet for å bringe frem ditt kunstneriske uttrykk
- Tid til personlige tilbakemeldinger
- Latter og humor
- Refleksjoner rundt kjønnsroller

Åpent for alle kjønn!

Bio: Eline Hallem er en internasjonal scenekunstner som gjennom flere rolletolkninger har fokusert på androgynitet og 'male impersonation'. Hun er utdannet i fysisk teater ved Ecole Jacques Lecoq og jobbet i de følgende årene som skuespiller i Storbritannia, hvor hun ble involvert i Drag King miljøet og utviklet sitt maskuline alterego, ALPHA. Hallem er også klovn og prosjektleder for organisasjonen Flying Seagulls Norge, som jobber med interaktive forestillinger og leker for barn over hele verden. Hun er aktuell med forestillingen "ALPHA - Finn Din Indre Konge!", premiere på Rosendal Teater 10. februar.

7.9 + 14.9 + 21.9.2022

Ingeborg will share her work with release-based technique with a focus on floor work, functional movement and bodywork (physical touch). The material is inspired by Bartenieff Fundamentals and Developmental Patterns, and focuses on effective and articulated utilization of gravity and the structure of the skeleton. We will work with simple exercises on the floor both with and without a partner, and take this into slightly more complex combinations and improvisations where we apply the various principles. We will also play with how the connections in the body and the contact with the floor can create a safer entrance to more challenging tasks such as handstands and more acrobatic contact work.

Bio: Ingeborg Sanders is a dance artist based in Trondheim. Her education consists of a BA (Hons) Dance Theater from Laban Center in London, PPU from KHiO in Oslo and CMA from LIMS in New York. Ingeborg is employed as curating producer and production manager at DansiT - choreographic centre as well as artistic director of the Danselaboratoriet, and runs Rabalderdans - creative dance for preschool children. As a choreographer and performer she has been a part of several constellations like Arnfinn´s, YODOK IX and VIB, and has worked with companies/choreographers like Terje Tjøme Mossige, Rhode/Aass productions, Barbro Djupvik, Cirka Teater, Inclusive Dance Company, Abalino Dance Theater and Landing. As a teacher, she has been employed at Trøndertun, Sunnhordland Folk High School, Spin Off evening school, and Kvinnherad- and Stjørdal Culture School.

5.10 + 19.10 + 26.10.2022

The most important thing you do every single day is…. BREATHE. 

Breathing of all things has the greatest impact on your health. It has the power to change the state of your nervous system. It is capable of charging you with energy, alleviating stress, anxiousness and fear as well as shifting your perspective on things. Even chronic pain can be treated with breathwork.

Breathing is also the most basic movement. All other movements build on breathing. Breathing is the foundation for more complex movement patterns. Functional movement requires functional breathing, and functional breathing leads to movement patterns that are aligned, effortless and efficient. In case there are blockages in breathing, there most likely will be blockages in movement as well as in the inner flow of emotions, thoughts and inspiration.

In the Praxis classes, Sanni leads you through explorations on breathing and movement, synchrony and asynchrony. Classes consist of breath awareness, movement and breathing practices focusing on freeing and functionalizing the breath. Each session includes also a breathwork session that works as a great tool for diving deeper into the body's wisdom, finding and releasing emotional blockages and tapping into one’s creative force.

Bio: Sanni Parkkinen is experienced yoga teacher (E-RYT 500) and breathing coach. In her work, Sanni focuses on nervous system health, breath and respecting the wisdom of the body. During the past few years she has deepened her understanding of the human system by diving into somatic work and different mind-body practices. She is educating new breathing coaches in Trondheim and running online breathing courses in Finland, through which shei has coached hundreds of people to free and functionalize their breathing. Her approach to breathing is multidisciplinary, drawing inspiration from various modalities: Buteyko Method, Integrative Breathing Therapy, Breathwork, Wim Hof, Yoga, Taoism, Somatic Experiencing, Feldenkrais and trauma therapy (among others). Sanni is also lecturing in companies and giving speeches to various audiences. In addition, she studies psychology at NTNU and is especially interested in neuroscience, mind-body connection and body's natural healing processes. Her big passion is to explore the convergences of latest research and ancient wisdom.

2.11 + 9.11 + 16.11.2022

If your mind doesn't remember your first dance, your flesh does." 

As a performer, I use Butoh as a tool to ground myself in the present, open my senses, free and renew my imagination, explore and develop a new bodytelling language. For me, Butoh is a true bridge between dance and theater. It gives the possibility to connect deeply to your inner self; to dance with your viscera, bones and cells. It is a philosophy, a spiritual process that gives access to a new field of narration. After an introduction on what Butoh is (if it is possible to define it ;), we will approach different techniques such as embodiment, image-guided improvisation, neutral walk or butoh-fu. We will also be inspired by surrealist artists. Come explore your own dance!

Bio: Céline Meillaud is a French performer and butoh-inspired dancer. She graduated from a drama school based on Jacques Lecoq technique (physical theater, mime, mask, commedia dell'arte, clown, buffoon). In 2014, she discovered Butoh and followed several workshops across Europe. In 2017, she traveled to Japan to explore the roots of butoh before moving to Norway. Today she has an artistic base in Trondheim where she lives and works as a dance performer for different companies: Cirka Teater, Panter Tanter and Crotonicx.

01.10.2022

This workshop is an introduction to applied research in the field of performance and dance. In this framework, time-based arts are a creative process used to unveil something new about a given subject: dance is a forensic, investigative tool, and the performance is a murder scene. 

How to create a performance that is intended to be a practice of collective imagination instead of using dance as the simple illustration of a pre-existing concept, or the aestheticization of a political display? 

We will depart from two practical examples: 

- the use of poems as choreographic and political landscapes for performance

- Haunting and hospitality as techniques to approach ecological violence from a forensic perspective

Bio: Jassem Hindi is a performer, sound artist and teacher. 

He has studied philosophy and has been working in the field of dance and performance for over ten years. 

His strategy is to use broken objects, broken bodies and broken sounds, cast together by nervousness and necessity. His last three works focus on death poems as choreographic worlds. He has collaborated with choreographers Ligia Lewis, Mia Habib, Lara Kramer, Ida Larsen, Keith Hennessy, Ruairi Donovan, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Rani Nair and many more.

23.11.2022

Welcome to an open discussion about collaboration in the performing arts field and how to join forces for a rich and creative work environment in Trondheim.

How do different artists work with their own performing practices?
How to make a practice accessible to other movement practitioners, in addition to opening up for an interdisciplinary approach and a broader network?
What can we learn from each other?
What are the benefits and challenges of sharing artistic practice?
What is needed to create a strong network of collaborators in Trondheim?
How to build a community of professional artists from different disciplines who work with movement-based practices in Trondheim?

We want to discuss these questions and more during the Round Table with Praxis Trondheim and invite you to an open conversation spiced with some practical examples and movement invitations.

Bio: Anna Thu Schmidt, er en dansekunstner med fokus på danseimprovisasjon, tverrfaglige prosjekter, stedsspesifikt arbeid og integrert dans. Anna er del av dansekompaniet Danselaboratoriet, leder av ImproDans Trondheim og Samtidsdans for voksne Trondheim. Et av hovedprosjektene hennes er ‘How to read water’.

Karoline Bergh Ellingsen, utøvende scenekunstner, jobber med barn/unge, driver Kompani Morell, underviser i Kulturskolen Trondheim, gjestelærer for blant annet Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo og utøver for Cirka Teater. 

Gunhild Løhre,  Utøvende dansekunstner og koreograf med hovedinteresse for tverrfaglige prosjekter, dans på film og fusjon av ulike dansestiler, metoder og uttrykk. Jobber for tiden blant annet med utviklingen av kortfilmen, ‘Brainfeels’, ‘Quantum Entanglement’  og det polsk norsk/norske samarbeidsprosjektet ‘Solidarnosc/Solidaritet’, i tillegg til andre oppdrag som utøver. 

Nina Wollny, er en utøvende scenekunstner i over 20 år. Hun jobber som danser, performer eller co- choreograph med blant annet Mia Habib Productions , BodyCartography Project, Molitrix og Jenny Beyer Productions. Nina underviser dans til professjonelle dansere siden 2004 for forskjellige danse kompanier, universiteter og dansestudioer i utlandet og i Norge som Proda, Scottish Dance Theater, Skånes danseteater, MaCode/Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt og Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. 

09.12 + 10.12.2022

Amy Pender og Martijn Joling tilbyr en workshop i partnerarbeid. I løpet av timene vil vi jobbe oss gjennom ulike øvelser der deling av vekt, det å stole på hverandre og timing står i sentrum. Vi begynner fra enkle øvelser for å bli kjent med hverandres fysiske strukturer og ser på hvordan vi kan gi og motta vekt. Videre vil vi jobbe med ulike måter å bevege oss på sammen i rommet, for så å gå til mer komplekse akrobatiske løft og manipulasjoner.

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Martijn og Amy møtte hverandre under sin utdanning ved Kunsthøyskolen i Amsterdam. De har jobbet sammen i flere prosjekter, blant annet for David Zambrano, Liat Waysbort (NL/IL), Blenard Azizaj (DE/AL) og Bodytalk (DE). I 2015 assisterte Amy Martijn da han lagde stykket “Limitless” ved Staatstheater Braunschweig (DE), og i 2017 lagde de sin første duett “Bak lukkede dører” som nå har turnert med over 70 forestillinger. Siden 2018 har de undervist partnering teknikk ved ulike skoler og for profesjonelle dansere.

Bio: Amy Pender er en norsk dansekunsten med en BA i Moderne/Samtidsdans fra Kunsthøyskolen i Amsterdam (2014). I sitt siste år på skolen var hun apprentice hos Iceland dance company, og som danser har hun bl.a. jobbet med koreografer og kompanier som Spitfire Dance Company (CZ), Cecilia Moisio (NL / FIN), Hagit Yakira, Yaniv Cohen (NO/IL) og Bodytalk (DE). Klein technique TM er et viktig fundament i hennes praksis som dansekunstner, og hun er siden 2019 en del av lærersertifiseringsprogrammet i Klein Technique TM.

Martijn Dirk Joling startet sin karriere som rapper i Nederland. Han byttet fokus til dans/scenekunst, og studerte kreativ scenekunst på ROC Amsterdam danseakademi (2009) og tok en BA i moderne/samtidsdans ved Kunsthøyskolen i Amsterdam (2014). Martijn har bl.a. jobbet som danser for Dance Company Nanine Linning/Teater Heidelberg, Staatsteater Braunschweig og Bodytalk Tanztheater. I tillegg til å være aktiv som utøver, jobber han også som koreograf og er aktuell med “Clean Bastards” og Tribute to me i 2022. Han har tidligere, bl. a. koreografert stykkene “Limitless”, for Staatstheater Braunschweig, “Bad stories never die” for Bodytalk (DE) og “The butterfly” for CDN Egypt.

26.1 + 2.2 + 9.2.2022 

Eline Hallem offers three workshops on how you can apply your movement experience in various different theatre forms. With a background in Lecoq method and contemporary dance, Hallem works within several forms of physical theatre, including mime, clown, puppetry, slapstick, masks, drag and interactive theatre. In this workshop, she focuses on how each individual can use their specific skills and background to master a variety of theatre genres.

Bio: Scenekunstner Eline Hallem, er utdannet ved École Jacques Lecoq og har siden jobbet med fysisk teater og bevegelse i Norge og internasjonalt. Hun har en allsidig bakgrunn fra teaterformer med base i bevegelse, inkludert maskespill, figurteater, klassisk teater, danseteater, mime og klovn. Hun jobber bl.a. med Flying Seagulls Norge, som bruker sirkus, komedie og interaktivt teater i arbeid med barn i krise, i Norge og internasjonalt. I 2019 fikk hun Verdal Kommunes Talentstipend og hun har blitt rost for sin rolletolkning i 'Perfect' av kritikere som The Guardian.

16.2 + 2.3 + 9.3.2022

Min praksis orienterer seg rundt en søken og leting etter det primale. Kropp og psyke kobles sammen med holdepunkt i det sansemotoriske systemet og hvordan det kan påvirkes og formes med bruk av fantasien som bindeledd. Dette blir en utforskning i å gjenoppdage de dyriske instinkter og andre aspekter ved mennesket i kontakt med de naturlige elementer. Billedbruk, kroppslige spenninger, høy intensitet og sensitiv lytting. Et blikk både rettet inn mot det indre og ut mot de ulike lag av synlighet og usynlighet rundt seg.

Bio: A Movement Based Artist

Dancer, choreographer, teaching artist. Also exploring mediums of expression like film, visual arts and music. His dance is influenced by spiritual, creative and somatic practices. And a deep interest in the bodily emotional language and communal rituals and the joyous energy of social, urban and folk dances.

16.3 + 23.3 + 6.4.2022

The Michael Chekhov Technique is an imaginative approach to experiencing the truth of the moment. It is a technique that seeks a connection between making an outer physical action and sensing how this movement evokes an inner response. All physical exercises are done with the intention of awakening the body in order to become a sponge finely tuned to respond to psychological impulses. Thus the performer aims at reaching a complete balance and harmony between the body and the thoughts, emotions and desires. The classes will experience the constant play between these two levels.

Bio: Italian Alessandra Felli holds a PhD in 'Digital technologies' and a master's degree in 'Performance analysis' from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the Sapienza University of Rome. Felli has been studying Michael Chekhov's acting technique since 2014. Today she participates in the international 'Michael Chekhov Training Program', under the Michael Chekhov Europe Association. Felli worked for 'Teatro Stabile di Napoli', one of the National Theaters in Italy, and she has directed several classical and modern theater productions. Since 2029 she is the Artistic Leader of the performing art company Bizarra Produskjoner. In Norway she has directed productions such as "Hvor har jeg vert i hele mitt liv" (Stjørdal), "Ms. Scrooge" (Lager11) og "Her er vi" (Lager11), "Bare Dyr" (Verkstedhallen). Currently, she works on the First Season of the Soap Opera Festival that will open in Trondheim in 2023.

20.4 + 27.4 + 4.5.2022

Kässärikaveripyrtsi -det finske ordet kombinerer ulike sirkusdisipliner som jeg har jobbet med både som utøvende artist og lærer av. Ved hjelp av teknikk, lek og improvisasjon skal vi teste og øve oss på balansering på hender i ulike måter. Vi kombinerer dette med partner akrobatikk-teknikker og vipps så er vi inne på mange rare posisjoner og bevegelser. Vi skal bygge pyramider og finne ut hvordan vi flytter oss fra den ene pyramiden til den neste. Sånn får vi øvd oss på tillit, styrke, balanse, og samarbeidsevner.

Bio: Seela Wanvik - (finsk, utdannet i Finland og Sverige, bosatt i Norge) begynte sin karriere i pyramidenummer på Sorin Sirkus i Tammerfors, Finland. Hun har 30 års erfaring fra sirkusfaget og er utdannet ved sirkuslærerhøgskolen ved Kunstakademiet i Turku og på Cirkuspiloterna ved Cirkus Cirkör i Stockholm. Som sirkusartist har Seela arbeidet med å utforske mange forskjellige sirkusteknikker, og hennes spesialområder er rokkering, parakrobatikk og pyramider. Seela jobber i dag som sirkuslærer ved Trondheim kommunale kulturskole og er med i en skandinavisk akrobatikkforestilling "Det får bära eller brista".

26.02 + 27.02.2022

Contact improvisation (CI) is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. The workshop offers an introduction to contact improvisation and a playful approach to the following themes: rolling point of contact, giving/receiving/sharing weight, leading and following, lifting and rolling. We start with a warm-up focussing on bodywork and body awareness that gives an introduction to touch and listening to the bodies and through body surfaces. Movement tasks in contact improvisation technique serve as tools for the exploration of the bodily communication between you and your partner. We finish with an open jam where you can play with the learned material and discover your own dance both alone and in physical contact with your partner.

Bio: Anna Thu Schmidt and Ingeborg Dugstad Sanders are Trondheim-based dance artists who have been working together since 2017. Both share a passion for dance improvisation and integrated dance and work together in Norway’s first integrated dance company Danselaboratoriet. Schmidt and Sanders have hosted several contact improvisation workshops and ImproJam’s in Trondheim and internationally.

www.idsanders.no
www.annathuschmidt.com

04.03 + 05.03.2022

With Material For the Spine, I was interested in alloying a technical approach to improvisational results. It is a system for exploring the interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring the light of consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations to the mind for consideration.”

Steve Paxton

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Material For the Spine concentrates accumulated knowledges from Paxton’s study of walking, Contact Improvisation and Aikido practice to explore the movement possibilities in the spine and the connections between the head, pelvis, and vertebrae. This solo practice is a meditative study of a series of exercises, body puzzles and ideokinetic imagery.

Otto Ramstad followed Steve Paxton’s work of contact improvisation since 1996 and Paxton’s Material For The Spine since 2010. Not accessible for wheelchair users.

Bio: Otto Ramstad is a dance artist who works with movement research to create performances, video work and installations for theaters, galleries, museums and different site and context specific encounters. He began studying Body-Mind Centering® in 1981 at six years old with his first dance teacher Suzanne River and is now a Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® , teaching internationally and working as the Educational Director of Somatic Education Australasia. For twenty-three years he has been collaborating with Olive Bieringa as BodyCartography Project. The mission of BodyCartography Project is to engage with the vital materiality of our bodies to create live performance that facilitates a re-enchantment of embodiment, relationship, and presence. He has a MA in Choreography from KHiO, Oslo. He has worked intensively over the last twenty years with primary teachers: with Lisa Nelson, assistant teaching for Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering®, and since 2010 with Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine which he teaches for Paxton internationally including at Steve Paxton: Swimming in Gravity, Brussels. He has been dancing in the work of DD Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Mia Habib and Kitt Johnson. 

19.03.2022

T&M workshops take elements from different somatic techniques and contemporary dance. For me it is crucial that dancers’ practice and training go together with performative experience. My goal is to change and activate the physical perception of our body and remind us of the infinite possibilities of movement. The first part of the class goes deeper into breathing forms and how to give direction and form to the body. The form of our breathing can reorganize the intention and expectations of the body. I use Biomechanics for the floorwork, because the physical body needs to understand the spiral form for effectiveness and energy in the articulations and muscles. Partnering is a tool for understanding your body and the second body through playing full dynamics and using the different levels of risk for falling and rolling. This kind of connection takes us into acrobatics. At the same time we use the foot work for transporting each other in space. Much of the material is inspired by fight and play that gives an opportunity to improvise and develop a dancer's own material.

Bio: Edwin Cabascango is an artist, dancer, choreographer and teacher currently based in Oslo. He has studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts -MA Dance. As a teacher he has taught contemporary partnering for Ballet Nacional del Ecuador, Budapest Dance theater, National Ciurlionis School of Art and PRODA in Oslo. He has performed and taught in Ecuador, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, France and Hungary. He aims to give an approach for physicality by incorporating contemporary dance and martial arts such as systema (Russian martial arts), wu shu and tai chi.

30.03.2022

Hvor mye training trenger vi som utøvende kunstner?

Hva er relevant trening for utøvende scenekunstnere?

Hvordan jobber ulike kunstnere med egen utøvende praksis?

Kan vi lære noe av hverandre her?

Disse spørsmålene og mer ønsker vi å drøfte under Round Table med Praxis Trondheim. Velkommen til en åpen diskusjon om hva det er behov for, så vi best mulig kan skreddersy et opplegg som passer for mange. Vi ønsker å samle miljøet, kjenne på at vi er flere som ønsker å utvikle seg som utøver og finne nye metoder for egen praksis. Round table med Praxis Trondheim er et performativt foredrag krydret med noen praktiske eksempler og bevegelsesinvitasjoner.

Praxis Trondheim ønsker å skape et rom for deling av kunstneriske praksiser for scenekunstnere og andre bevegelsesinteresserte. I form av ukentlige klasser, workshops og kunstner-foredrag tilbyr vi en plattform for utveksling og diskusjon med bevegelse som fundament. Gjennom et tilbud som Praxis kan vi invitere til dialog mellom individuelle kunstnere og deres lokalsamfunn og på denne måten er vi med på å øke tilbudet til det profesjonelle scenekunst-miljøet i Trondheim. Vi ønsker også å åpne opp for en mer tverrfaglig utveksling, der scenekunstnere og bevegelseinteresserte med ulik bakgrunn, kan dele og lære av hverandre. PRAXIS Trondheim er et initiativ av og for Trondheim-baserte scenekunstnere, inspirert av PRAXIS Oslo.

Bio: Anna Thu Schmidt, er en dansekunstner med fokus på danseimprovisasjon, tverrfaglige prosjekter, stedsspesifikt arbeid og integrert dans. Anna er del av dansekompaniet Danselaboratoriet, leder av ImproDans Trondheim og Samtidsdans for voksne Trondheim. Et av hovedprosjektene hennes er ‘How to read water’.

Karoline Bergh Ellingsen, utøvende scenekunstner, jobber med barn/unge, driver Kompani Morell, underviser i Kulturskolen Trondheim, gjestelærer for blant annet Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo og utøver for Cirka Teater. 

Gunhild Løhre,  Utøvende dansekunstner og koreograf med hovedinteresse for tverrfaglige prosjekter, dans på film og fusjon av ulike dansestiler, metoder og uttrykk. Jobber for tiden blant annet med utviklingen av kortfilmen, ‘Brainfeels’, ‘Quantum Entanglement’  og det polsk norsk/norske samarbeidsprosjektet ‘Solidarnosc/Solidaritet’, i tillegg til andre oppdrag som utøver. 

Nina Wollny, er en utøvende scenekunstner i over 20 år. Hun jobber som danser, performer eller co- choreograph med blant annet Mia Habib Productions , BodyCartography Project, Molitrix og Jenny Beyer Productions. Nina underviser dans til professjonelle dansere siden 2004 for forskjellige danse kompanier, universiteter og dansestudioer i utlandet og i Norge som Proda, Scottish Dance Theater, Skånes danseteater, MaCode/Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt og Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. 

10.06 + 11.06.2022

In January 2020, Winsnes/Ålskog was at a residency in Hammerfest at Dansearena Nord where they started developing their movement practice connected to their performance project Stillhet og mørke. The project is based on a common interest in silence and what silence can contain for body and mind. What is silence? According to researcher Olga V. Lehmann, there is no pure silence. Silence is a space in between, and is therefore dependent on visual and audible noise , sounds, movement and language. Can silence initiate new gestures and movements? For us it did. When the pandemic led to the shutdown of dance classes in spring 2020, we started an outdoor movement practice in Tøyenparken in Oslo. This became a weekly practice for professional dancers, where we continued exploring the methods we designed in Hammerfest.

The practice consists of different improvisational tasks with concise bodily frames/images/sensory impressions to embody. With funding from Oslo kommune we did six performances in three different parks in the old district of Oslo, performed between 2-4 October 2020. Winsnes/Ålskog were joined by five of the dancers who had participated in the practice on a regular basis. The performance was called "Stillhet og Mørke - FLOKK", and the dramaturgy/structure was made up of the four main methods of the practice. 

This practice is suitable for dance artists from different backgrounds, abilities and interests. The practice requires an interest in tuning in to what is happening on the inside, on the outside and in relation to the rest of the group.
More info : Dansekunst | Stillhet og mørke (andreawinsnes.wixsite.com)

Bio: Cecilie Sleppen Ålskog (NO) is a dance artist working as a dancer, choreographer, dance consultant in dance and dance teacher, currently based in Oslo/Innlandet. She has a BA in Jazz Dance from The Norwegian College of Dance (2008), further education from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2015), Stockholm University of the Arts (2016) and Master of Arts in Dance Studies from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2021). Cecilies teaching experience varies from all ages and levels and she is currently teaching at Oslo Kulturskole and danselinjen/Stange videregående skole. She works in different freelance constellations, as well as making her own work. Cecilie has toured with “Den kulturelle skolesekken”, performed at small and bigger scenes and festivals as well as in different public spaces. 

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Andrea Winsnes was born and raised in Melhus, and has been dancing for many years. She completed her bachelors degree in contemporary dance at Norges Dansehøyskole in 2018, and has since been working as a dance artist based in Oslo. During the last four years Andrea has worked on projects in collaboration with other artists, as well as working as a dancer for choreographers such as Elle Sofe Sara, Kari Hoaas and Ornilia Ubisse. This spring she is moving to Trondheim, and is looking forward to become a part of an exciting dance community there. As well as working as a performer, Andrea has been teaching dance for several years, and is passionate about sharing and exploring movement ideas with others.

01.12 + 08.12 + 15.12.2021

Et samlende begrep for min praksis og navnet på min research er «Adaptable body», kort fortalt handler det om å tilegne seg en funksjonell, allsidig og tilpasningsdyktig kropp ved hjelp av ulike verktøy. Det er en praksis som er inspirert av ulike bevegelsesmiljøer som capoeira, parkour, BJJ, fighting monkey, playfight, catabatics osv. der jeg henter ut metoder som jeg ser på som bærekraftige og blander det med egen floorwork-praksis. Vi vil jobbe med funksjonell bevegelse som styrker og utfordrer nervesystemet, adaptive leker i par for å jobbe med både fokus, elastisitet, løsningsorientering og koordinasjon. Generelt utforskende arbeid med partner som handler om å bli kjent med egne og andre kroppers muligheter. 

Det vil være en fysisk klasse men det krever ingen forkunnskaper som danser, kun et åpent sinn og en lyst til å teste og prøve ut nye måter å bevege seg på. 

Bio: Karoline Bergh Ellingsen er utdannet danser fra Universitetet i Stavanger og Spin Off Forstudium i Dans. Hun har aktivt søkt ulike bevegelsesmiljøer for å tilegne seg en allsidig praksis med floorwork som kjerne. Hun har vært utøvende danser for blant annet Inaki Azpillaga i Brussel, Kiani del Valle i København, reist med egen soloforestilling til Portugal og Russland. Driver sitt eget kompani; Kompani Morell med skuespiller Emilie Mordal, som fokuserer på scenekunst for barn og unge. Kompaniets andre produksjon ‘’FORELSKA!’’ skal på turné i DKS våren 21. Karoline jobber også som utøver for Cirka Teater, underviser freelance for blant annet Khio i Oslo og fast for Kulturskolen Trondheim.

10.11 + 17.11 + 24.11.2021

“My practice combines contemporary dance with dance improvisation and provides a playful approach to choreographic processes. I am particularly interested in the individual movement language of each participant and the relationship between the bodies and space. This will be explored by exploring different movement qualities within improvisation and composition tasks. Through movement meditation, we create body awareness, discover our own movement patterns, and connect to ourselves and the space around us. The class consists of improvisation tasks that will be transformed by the participants and serve as a basis for a movement dialogue with each other. ”

Bio: Anna Thu Schmidt is a Trondheim-based dance artist who focuses on site-specific performances, improvisation, interdisciplinary projects, and integrated dance. Anna holds a degree in Dance in Education from ArtEZ (Netherlands) and an MA in Dance Studies from NTNU. Her work is often inspired by other cultures and the connection and communication between humans and nature. Her interest in the relation of dance to other arts has led to international collaborations and research on the intertwinement between dance and installation art. Anna is part of the integrated dance company "Danselaboratoriet", organizes ImproJAM / ImproLAB / ImproSTUNT and teaches contemporary dance for adults (Samtidsdans for voksne) and Yoga in Trondheim. (annathuschmidt.com)

13.10 + 20.10 + 27.10.2021

“Min praxis har spesielt fokus på å benytte dynamikk, rytme og ulike kvaliteter fra forskjellige teknikker for å gi dansen og danseren et språklig uttrykksform. Vi vil gjøre improvisasjonsøvelser fokusert på å utvikle vårt eget bevegelsesmønster, spesielt med tanke på bevegelseskvaliteter og dynamikk. Øvelsene vil fokusere på tilstedeværelse i egen kropp, samt en bevisstgjøring rundt hvor motivasjonen for bevegelsen kommer fra. Gjennom tekniske øvelser, improvisasjon og koreografi på tvers av sjangre og teknikker, ønsker klassen å gi verktøy for å utvikle seg som en dynamisk og variert danser med et individuelt formspråk. Målet er at danseren selv evner å benytte seg av nye og gamle input, for å nå det store spekteret av bevegelse, og kan sømløst bevege seg imellom.”

Bio: Gunhild Løhre er dansekunstner bosatt i Trondheim, utdannet med en BA honors i utøvende dans fra LIPA (Liverpool). Etter fullført studie danset Løhre med det moderne dansekompaniet Compagnia Fransesca Selva i Siena, Italia i 2015. Hun jobber nå freelance som dansekunstner og koreograf med base i Trondheim. Nåværende prosjekter er som koreograf for “Yggdrasil” i tillegg til eget prosjekt, Solidarnosc/Solidaritet. Løhres nylige engasjementer inkluderer danser for “Elastic Bonding” ved Multiplié dansefestival, “Quantum Entanglement”, og den selv-produserte forestillingen “Min virkelighet”.

22.09 + 29.09 + 06.10.2021

" Since I was a child I have always been fascinated by learning about how the human body works and how the different parts collaborate. When I started dancing and throughout my career as a dancer and teacher it has become more and more clear that it seems to have such a strong and sometimes even magical impact on our movement, presence, perception and therefor influences and enriches the way we dance. 

Each day the class will be based on one topic related to how the human body works from a small simple detail to bigger connections within the organism. Each topic will be explored by looking at visual material, free and guided physical exploration and simple repetitive exercises. In the end we will have the option for an open session where we combine the different information and material we explored or gradually accumulate the material to build an energetic movement phrase, that plays with all levels of space, speed, flow and the forces that move us. The class is build to be open for all kinds of movers and gives space for everyone to join and still follow their own wishes and needs. Since I have done a lot of online dancing and teaching during the last year which has reminded me again of how important it is to really connect to the space you are in, we will also focus on this during the in person classes. Rediscovering the obvious like it is something new. Enjoying the value of being local and at the same time connecting to the world in a small way or to the entire Universe depending on where we want to take it that day. Looking forward to start the day together and dance with you."

Bio: Nina Wollny studied modern and contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Codarts, in the Netherlands. After her graduation in 2002 she joined the company anoukvandijkdc and has worked there as dancer, rehearsal director and artistic assistant for more than 10 years. She performed in almost all of Anouk van Dijk’s work during that time, including the collaborations with director and playwright Falk Richter and Anouk van Dijk’s first work as director of Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia. When she was 15 she started to teach dance, first mainly Ballet and discovered how much she enjoys teaching, sharing dance and performing alike. Since 2004 she is a passionate teacher of the Countertechnique and is regularly teaching at dance academies, companies and studios for professional dancers around the world. Since 2012, Wollny is performing and collaborating regularly with German choreographer Jenny Beyer at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. Since 2016 working with Mia Habib Productions , most recently she is part of the piece "How to die -Inopiné”

01.09.2021

03.02 + 10.02 + 17.02 + 03.03 + 10.03.2021

“Et samlende begrep for min praksis og navnet på min research er «Adaptable body», kort fortalt handler det om å tilegne seg en funksjonell, allsidig og tilpasningsdyktig kropp ved hjelp av ulike verktøy. Det er en praksis som er inspirert av ulike bevegelsesmiljøer som capoeira, parkour, BJJ, fighting monkey, playfight, catabatics osv. der jeg henter ut metoder som jeg ser på som bærekraftige for en danser og blander det med egen floorwork-praksis. Vi vil jobbe med funksjonell bevegelse som styrker og utfordrer nervesystemet, adaptive leker i par for å jobbe med både fokus, elastisitet, løsningsorientering og koordinasjon. Generelt utforskende arbeid med partner som handler om å bli kjent med egne og andre kroppers muligheter.” 

Bio: Karoline Bergh Ellingsen er utdannet danser fra Universitetet i Stavanger og Spin Off Forstudium i Dans. Hun har aktivt søkt ulike bevegelsesmiljøer som capoeira, parkour, BJJ, fighting monkey, playfight osv, for å tilegne seg en allsidig praksis med floorwork som kjerne. Hun har vært utøvende danser for blant annet Inaki Azpillaga i Brussel, Kiani del Valle i København, reist med egen soloforestilling til Portugal og Russland, og driver for tiden sitt eget kompani; Kompani Morell med skuespiller Emilie Mordal, som fokuserer på scenekunst for barn og unge. Aktuell med ny produksjon; ‘’FORELSKA!’’ med sitt eget kompani, Kompani Morell, og som utøver for Cirka Teater’s nye produskjon ‘DRIV’ i samarbeid med TrondheimKamfest. Bergh Ellingsen underviser freelance for blandt annet Khio og fast for Kulturskolen Trondheim. 

28.04 + 05.05 + 12.05 + 19.05.2021

“My practice combines contemporary dance with dance improvisation and provides a playful approach to choreographic processes. I am particularly interested in the individual movement language of each participant and the relationship between the bodies and space. This will be explored by exploring different movement qualities within improvisation and composition tasks. Through movement meditation, we create body awareness, discover our own movement patterns, and connect to ourselves and the space around us. The class consists of improvisation tasks that will be transformed by the participants and serves as a basis for a movement dialogue with each other. ”

Bio: Anna Thu Schmidt is a Trondheim-based dance artist who focuses on site-specific performances, improvisation, interdisciplinary projects, and integrated dance. Anna holds a degree in Dance in Education from ArtEZ (Netherlands) and an MA in Dance Studies from NTNU. Her work is often inspired by other cultures, and the connection and communication between humans and nature. Her interest in the relation of dance to other arts has led to international collaborations and research on the intertwinement between dance and installation art. Anna is part of the integrated dance company "Danselaboratoriet", organizes ImproJAM / ImproLAB / ImproSTUNT and teaches contemporary dance for adults (Samtidsdans for voksne) and Yoga in Trondheim. (annathuschmidt.com)

17.03 + 24.03 + 07.04 + 14.04.2021

“Min praxis har spesielt fokus på å benytte dynamikk, rytme og ulike kvaliteter fra forskjellige teknikker for å gi dansen og danseren et språklig uttrykksform. Vi vil gjøre improvisasjonsøvelser fokusert på å utvikle vårt eget bevegelsesmønster, spesielt med tanke på bevegelseskvaliteter og dynamikk. Øvelsene vil fokusere på tilstedeværelse i egen kropp, samt en bevisstgjøring rundt hvor motivasjonen for bevegelsen kommer fra. Gjennom tekniske øvelser, improvisasjon og koreografi på tvers av sjangre og teknikker, ønsker klassen å gi verktøy for å utvikle seg som en dynamisk og variert danser med et individuelt formspråk. Målet er at danseren selv evner å benytte seg av nye og gamle input, for å nå det store spekteret av bevegelse, og kan sømløst bevege seg imellom.”

Bio: Gunhild Løhre er dansekunstner bosatt i Trondheim, utdannet med en BA honors i utøvende dans fra LIPA (Liverpool). Etter fullført studie danset Løhre med det moderne dansekompaniet Compagnia Fransesca Selva i Siena, Italia i 2015. Hun jobber nå freelance som dansekunstner og koreograf med base i Trondheim. Nåværende prosjekter er som koreograf for “Yggdrasil” i tillegg til eget prosjekt, Solidarnosc/Solidaritet. Løhres nylige engasjementer inkluderer danser for “Elastic Bonding” ved Multiplié dansefestival, “Quantum Entanglement”, og den selv-produserte forestillingen “Min virkelighet”.