Welcome to our PRAXIS weekend workshops for performing artists, people with movement experience, and everyone interested in movements.
Praxis Trondheim is hosting various workshops, round table talks, performance lectures and open stage.
Registration and info: praxistrondheim@gmail.com
(Drop-in prices with sliding scale system where you pay according to your financial situation. By paying more you make it possible for others to pay less.)
UPCOMING EVENTS
23.08 - 24.08.2024
Mobility/Floorwork
DAVID MAGYEL
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.
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.
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.
Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your movement practice!
When: Friday 23.08.2024 kl 17-19 + Saturday 24.08.2024 kl 11-13
Where: DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 50-250 NOK per day (Sliding scale)
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.
Photo: Tale Hendnes
When: Saturday 14.09.2024 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 150-500 NOK (Sliding scale system)
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.
14.09.2024
Building up ECSTASY
ORNILIA PERCIA UBISSE
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.
05.10.2024
OPEN STAGE at Contact Impro Festival Trondheim
PRAXIS TRONDHEIM/IMPRODANS TRONDHEIM
Welcome to our OPEN STAGE as part of the Contact Impro Festival at DansiT in collaboration with ImproDans Trondheim.
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.
If you are interested in performing your work sign up via mail to improdanstrd@gmail.com with a short description of your idea.
Photo: Tobias Liljedahl
When: Saturday 05.10.2024 kl 17:30-19:00
Where: DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
FREE EVENT
Supported by Kulturrådet, Trondheim Kommune and DansiT
16.10.2024
Photo: Arne Hauge
When: Wednesday 16.10.2024 kl 17-19
Where: Mezzaninen, Rosendal Theater, Innherredsveien 73 , Trondheim
FREE event
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
PRAXIS Round Table Talk - Foreldreskap og Kunstnerskap
PRAXIS TEAM
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.
Welcome to an inspiring conversation with PRAXIS Trondheim!
19.10.2024
Dance and let go
- a dance practice where sharing is caring and nothing is wrong
KEN BRUUN
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.
When: Saturday 19.10.2024 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price:150-500 NOK (Sliding scale)
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.
Photo: Arne Hauge
When: Friday 01.11.2024 kl 18-20 + Saturday 02.11.2024 kl 11-13
Where: DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 50-250 NOK per day (Sliding scale)
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.
01.11 - 02.11.2024
Klein Technique
AMY PENDER
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.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
02.03.2024
Tuning Scores
OLIVE BIERINGA
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/
When: Saturday 2.3.2024 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price:150-500 NOK (Sliding scale)
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
When: Saturday 06.04.2024 kl 11-15:30
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 150-500 NOK (Sliding scale system)
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
The Wound of your Creativity
ANN-CATHRIN HERTLING
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?”
17.04.2024
Round table talk #4
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!
When: Wednesday 17.04.2024 kl 16:30-18
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
FREE event
Guest artist: Sindri Runudde
PRAXIS Trondheim: Anna Thu Schmidt, Karoline Ellingsen Wheeler, Gunhild Løhre, Andrea Winsnes & Nina Wollny
Photo: Tale Hendnes
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 150-500 NOK (Sliding scale system)
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.
POSTPONED - new date t.b.a
Building up ECSTASY
ORNILIA PERCIA UBISSE
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.
08.06.2024
Parkour
MARTIN HAUGLAND SUNDBY
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.
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When: Saturday 8.6.2024 kl 11-15
Where: outdoors, meeting point DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price:150-500 NOK (Sliding scale)
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.
Photo: Farhan Rizuwan
When: Saturday 4.5.2024 kl 11-14
Where: DansiT Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price:150-500 NOK (Sliding scale)
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
04.05.2024
The Art of Falling
HWA WEI-AN
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.
08.09.2023
"KONGEN"
DRAG KING FOREDRAG MED ROBIN FRA GUTTA
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.
Gratis arrangement!
*arrangementet vil være på norsk.
Støttet av Trondheim Pride, DansiT og HAVET
Photo: Jonas Mailand
When: Friday 8.9.2023 kl 18-18:45
Where: Langhuset, kulturarena HAVET, Strandveien 104, Trondheim
Price: FREE event
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
11.11.2023 + 12.11.2023
PRAXIS Workshop
ANN KATHRIN GRANHUS
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.
Photo: Rune Aasen
When: Saturday 11.11.2023 and Sunday 12.11.2023 kl 11-13
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 75-250 NOK (Sliding scale system)
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!
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Photo: Pat Mic
When: Saturday 25.11.2023 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 150-500 NOK (Sliding scale system)
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.
25.11.2023
PRAXIS Workshop
EWELINA SOBIERAJ
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.
09.12.2023
TASK-WRITE-REVISE
ANU LAIHO
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.
Photo: Oliver Paulsson
When: Saturday 09.12.2023 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 150-500 NOK (Sliding scale system)
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
24.03.2023
Round table talk #3
PRAXIS TRONDHEIM TEAM
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.
Photo: Arne Hauge
When: Friday 24.03.2023 kl 10-12
Where: DansiT, Svartlamon, Strandvegen 33, Trondheim
Price: free event!
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.
When: Saturday 06.05.2023 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Svartlamon, Strandvegen 33, Trondheim
Price: 300 NOK
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.
06.05.2023
PRAXIS Workshop
HANNA FILOMEN MJÅVATN
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.
03.06.2023
Drag King Workshop
ELINE HALLEM
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!
Photo: Blackstar Multimedia
When: Saturday 03.06.2023 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Svartlamon, Strandvegen 33, Trondheim
Price: 300 NOK
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.
When: Saturday 1.10.2022 kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Svartlamon, Strandvegen 33, Trondheim
Price: 300 NOK
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.
1.10.2022
The performance as a crime scene
JASSEM HINDI
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
23.11.2022
Round table talk #2
PRAXIS TRONDHEIM TEAM
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.
Photo: Arne Hauge
When: Wednesday 23.11.2022 kl 18:00-20:00
Where: HAVET Arena, Strandveien 104, Trondheim
Price: FREE event
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.
Photo: Claudio Greco
When: Friday 9.12. Kl 18-20 + Saturday 10.12. Kl 11-15
Where: DansiT, Svartlamon, Strandvegen 33, Trondheim
Price: 450 NOK
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.
9 + 10.12.2022
Partnerwork
AMY PENDER OG MARTIJN JOLING
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.
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.
26.2 + 27.2.2022
Contact Improvisation
INGEBORG DUGSTAD SANDERS &
ANNA THU SCHMIDT
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.
Photo: Juliane Schütz
When: Intro class Saturday 26.2.2022 Kl 18-20 + intensive workshop Sunday 27.2.2022 Kl 11-16
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 450 NOK Saturday + Sunday
(One-day drop-in: 150 NOK Saturday, 300 NOK Sunday)
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.
When: Intro class Friday 4.3.2022 Kl 18-20 + intensive workshop Saturday 5.3.2022 Kl 10-15
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: 450 NOK Friday + Saturday
(One-day drop-in: 150 NOK Friday, 300 NOK Saturday)
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.
4.3 + 5.3.2022
Material for the spine
OTTO RAMSTAD
“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
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.
19.3.2022
Texture and Movement
EDWIN CABASCANGO
Texture and movement
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.
When: Saturday 19.3.2022 Kl 10-15
Where: RAW Dance studio, Olav Tryggvassons gate 39, 7011 Trondheim
Price: 300 NOK
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.
When: Wednesday 30.3.2022 kl 16:00-17:30
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim
Price: FREE event as part of Multiplié dansefestival
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.
30.3.2022
Round table talk
PRAXIS TRONDHEIM TEAM
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.
10.6 + 11.6.2022
Stillhet og mørke
CECILIE SLEPPEN ÅLSKOG & Andrea Winsnes
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)
When: Intro class Friday 10.6.2022 Kl 18-20 + intensive workshop Saturday 11.6.2022 Kl 10-15
Where: DansiT, Strandveien 33, Trondheim on Friday, outdoors on Saturday
Price: 450 NOK Friday + Saturday
(One-day drop-in: 150 NOK Friday, 300 NOK Saturday)
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.
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.