Teaching

Move and creating connected:

I experience that training or the lack of it, has a big influence on my movement language, abilities and what I create, and so my movement and dance practise support and affect me as a dance artist. My training affects the physicality of my creations.

Though there has been some classes where I have lived i Norway, there is no daily training outside of Oslo, the capital, and so I have been focusing a lot my own practice ever since graduated. What do I like? What can be useful?, What do I want to develop? and what do I find interesting?..

2020 –

Due to lack of classes around, other dancers, work, isolation and the pandemic, it was during the four work years and pandemic in Verdal 19-23, I really started focusing on my weekly training. Now it was a damn necessity to train myself in order to continue my skills and interests. I had to go inwards and find my motivations for dancing.

During the pandemic and years after I started developing my professional dance technique class and praxis (  class for movers and non-dancers)

DANCE CLASS VS PRAXIS

In the class for dancers, there is more focus on technique and I give longer movement-phrases. At the end of the class there is often a choreography. For the Praxis the focus lays more on movement explorations, tasks and games.

THE BUILDUP

In my sessions we start with a good warm up and activating of all the joints. Then you will meet standing and floor exercises. Happening towards a circle, towards a front and cross the room. There will be some semi-acrobatic elements, improvisation explorations and if a dance class, a choreography in the end. Some classes will focus more on some aspects than others. All after what I find useful for the students' progression and today’s focus. Often I will come with an overall focus for the session.

THE GOAL:

Is to become “strong, moveable and aware in all angles”.

I want us to feel placed and prepared to start creative work after a class with me. I want to feel strong and safe to move my body in all kinds of ways. I want to feel I am aware of my body. Doing a tech class I think is strength, awareness, and injury prevention.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF CHOICES:

I am in researching contemporary dance techniques in today's society, and what is needed to do my choreographies. In class you will meet improvisation as a tool for increasing awareness of what we work on, but developing improsessions skills is not the main aim for this class. I do enjoy improvisation classes as a way of training, like Gaga, but I find that other technique exercises is a tool for development as well. They go hand in hand. 

Where it all comes together.

Simultaneously when I started creating this class, I in 19-20 created 1-2 class choreographies a month for a year (!). It was a way of keeping myself busy and interested with dance in a time with no jobs. I have been exploring many different directions and physicality and so I also learned more of my style. Creating choreographies also pushed my mind and body. Combining technique and then doing choreography, worked well for me as a training class.

I enjoy that everything comes together in a choreo; the technique, timing, expression the "feels". I also see that my choreographic interest comes to play in my classes, fueling my creator side as well.

I have been exploring and setting material for 10 + years. I now have over 40 choreos up my sleeve to share in class, or my own artistic processes.

See choreo- overview under. It does not include material from my creations ( se own creations). That I also could teach in class.

2023:

Spine and hip - phrase

Isa // Wardruna.
*Taking auditions solos, combining it with other ideas and making something new.

2022:
2x handstand phrases !

2020:
9 (class) choreographies in Verdal:

Forgotten love // music : Aurora.

AK different kind of phrase  // music: Dovetail

Music: Beyonce :
Sasha ( to be completed)
Crazy in love
End of time

Nothing Breaks Like a Hearth // music: Miley Cyrus

You Caused this, // music: Daughter.

Open Door // music: Mike Shinoda

Sight of you // music: Sigrid

2019:
5 (class) choreographies. autumn, in Verdal:

Imagen by Ariana ( 3/6 beat)

Blue . A floor work phrase reminded me of a style and teacher in Amsterdam.

Open my mouth - “ Two phrases that became one “

Abataka - The one that changed music a lot until I found the right one.

Confident – Demi Lovato

2018:
Bonfire // Jazz choreography. Sandnes

Space Cadet // Jazz Choreography, Sandnes

2017:
Knock Knock whos there // Stavanger

2016:
Kick Up your feet and let’s go //  Stavanger

Cosmic Love // Stavanger

Set out too,// Amsterdam.

Life’s rhyme //Amsterdam ( to be completed)

Another love // Amsterdam ( to be completed)

2015:
Thoughtful Pendulum // Malmø, Sweden

Robyn Choreography //Aarhus, Denmark

Tut tut all night long, Amsterdam //The Netherlands (to be completed)

   2014:
(during BA)
Early explorations, choreos, and solos that can be developed and turned into class choreos.