Nordic Projects

Nordic Projects consists of several productions from Choreographer Emilia Adelöw and selected Partners and Collaborators.
Adelöw is based in Oslo, Norway and involves Norwegian performers with strong stage personalities and high movement qualities. Projects with dynamic strength have always been the choreographer’s characteristics.

The body as a carrier of communication in different contexts and perspectives is the focus of the artistic work. Problems surrounding human emotions and the frail nature of life are the main theme of the choreographers work.

The Choreographers signature is the strong impact of dynamic movements in relation to the room, light and sound combined with a visual and emotional closeness in the situation. Expressed through movement and dance, people in relations and reactions to different influences are always explored. The projects are primarily directed toward a young adult audience.

Since 2003 Adelöw has received annual support from the Arts Council Norway, Fund for performing artists and the Fond for lyd og bilde. She has also received several grants for research and related artistic works.

Choreographer Emilia Adelöw

With a portfolio of artistic projects made on and off stage, Adelöws artistic base has been in Norway since 2003. In relation to the projects she has initiated she have involved and collaborated with several dancers, performers, photographers, light designers, scenographers, costume designers, film directors, video artist, graphic designers and composers. Working mainly with Norwegian dancers and performers with background in contemporary dance, theatre field and visual fields in various age and stage experiences.

Since 2003, the choreographer has documented her work in close collaboration with photographers and filmmakers.
In 2009 she released a limited edition photo documentary book with 200 pages based on location-based productions. The book was realised in collaboration with photographer Stian Andersen and graphic designer Thomas Knutstad.

In 2005 she converted an office location in central Oslo to a studio where a series of eight different solos and duets were produced and displayed. The Walls consists of several dance performances presented in Oslo in 2005-2008.

The performances were presented from a basic idea where the theme, choreography and dramaturgy repeat itself in several different contexts. The human body as carrier of communication, with underlying definitions and presentations of problems, is a pervading approach. Several different duets and solos have been presented.

Music is an important part of the performances to create different moods and variations of the work to support the choreography, the room and the milieu. Norwegian composers accompany the dance performances with original music. The music has often been electro-acoustic and been presented as a live mix of pre-recorded sound/music and recorded sound from the room.

In 2002 she participated in the Helsinki International Ballet Competition with a quartet and in 2003 at AeroWaves in London, UK with a duet. She has been to several artist residences in Europe. She gives workshops for different art schools in various fields.

Since 2003 she has received annual support from the Arts Council Norway, Fund for performing artists and the Fond for lyd og bilde. She has also received several grants for research and related artistic works.

Emilia Adelöw was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Educated as a dancer and choreographer in Sweden and Norway. Emilia grew up in Umeå – the northern parts of Sweden – before returning to Stockholm for one year of dance education and later to Gothenburg for three years at Gothenburg Ballet Academy. In year 2000 she moved to Oslo, Norway to start her choreographic studies at The Oslo National Academy of the Arts, department of Choreography.

City Fragments

Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson, Light designer
Freelance as a lighting designer and technician for performing arts, live concerts, and events.

Christina Lindgren, Scenographer, costume designer
Scenographer with a background from Oslo and Berlin. Since 1993 she has worked as a scenographer and costume designer within theater, dance and opera in Norway, Denmark and Germany, among others at Thorshovteatret and Nasjonalteatret.

Julian Skar, Composer
Educated at Norwegian academy of music and Berlin art academy with main focus on electronic music and music theatre. Composer and artistic director in the Oslo based ensemble neoN. Member of the multimedia duo Skar/Berstad duo, and the berlin based theatrecompany “Office for time and space”

Sudesh Adahana, Dancer
Born in 1979 in New Delhi, India. Lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He has a BA in Modern and Contemporary Dance, from National Collage of Art (Khio) in Oslo, earlier educated in Mayurbhanj Chhau at Bhartiya Kala Kendra and Kathakali from International Kathakali Centre in New Delhi. Adhana has choreographed and performed 5 full-length dance productions. He has worked with leading choreographers and participating in national and international dance productions in India, Norway, Japan, Singapore, UK, and USA. He is currenty working on 3 new dance projects in Paris, Norway and New Delhi, India in 2009/2010.

Elisabeth Breen, Dancer
Bachelor in contemporary dance from Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. After her education in Oslo, she has spent time in Amsterdam, Massachusetts and New York to learn from different choreographers and teachers, like Nancy Stark Smith. She’s been teaching at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, and she has worked with Kristine Karåla Øren and Bruno Caverna. This is her first production with Emilia Adelöw.

Ella Christina Fiskum, Dancer
Comes from Trondheim, has education from Oslo, St. Petersburg, and Stuttgart. She works as a dancer, choreographer and producer, and has choreographed solos and group works, and has directed opera works. She has toured in Europe, Canada, and India. www.ellafiskumdanz.com

Jorunn Kjersem Hildre, Dancer
Comes from Ålesund in Norway. In 2008 she finished her modern and contemporary dance education at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. ”Without a title” is her first collaboration with choreographer Emilia Adelöw.

Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal, Dancer
BA in modern- and contemporary dance from The National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, and continued her studies at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Sigrid is based in Oslo and has worked with choreographers such as Eva-Cecilie Richardsen, Masja Abrahamsen, Hege Haagenrud and Jana Unmussig.

Mikkel Are Olsen, Dancer
Working as an actor and dancer for 20 years in a large variation of plays and coreografies. This is his second production with Emilia.

Gitte Lill Paulsen, Dancer
Finished her bachelor degree at the National Academy Of The Arts in Oslo (KHIO) 2008. Gitte has worked fulltime as a proffesional dancer and model in Norway and NewYork, for two years. Improvised performance at the Opening Of The European Culture City, Events for Oslo Dance Ensemble, musical Grease in Oslo Spectrum, choreographed and danced several times for Ministry Of Sound in London, tribute performances on tour in Norway, The Amanda Award and Gullruten are some of the TV apperances, also dance photos for magazines and commercials as HENNE, Shapeup, Jotun and Mxdc, is some of her dancer experience.

Sindre Postholm, Dancer
Born in Trondheim and trained at The Ballet Academy in Gothenburg. He has done a number of musicals in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He now works for Jo Stromgren Company as an understudy in ”A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football”. In 2011, Sindre can be seen in the new Tv-show ”Reisen til Popstjernen” at TV2. Sindre is also a member of the Oslo Tapdance Company.

Kira Senkpiel, Dancer
Born in Montreal Canada, but has since the age of seven been living in Norway. She started her dance education at the Norwegian National ballet school, and later completed her education at the Oslo National Academy of Arts (2008). Since then she has been working as a freelance dancer in Holland, Germany and Norway, performing in productions with film, theater and dance. This is Kiras first production with Emila Adelöw.

Stian Andersen, Photographer
Professional photographer based in Oslo and has worked on an international market since the early nineties.

André Austvoll, Video editor
Photographer and video editor, does films with a focus on dance and movement. He has worked on projects in the United States, China and Brazil. André is educated from Laban Centre London and has an MA from the University of Surrey, UK.

Site Specific Nordic Project

Leif Nygaard, Dancer
This Canadian/Norwegian actor and dancer is educated in Europe. With a bachelors degree in dance and freelancing for 3 years, Leif has worked with choreographers such as Anne Grete Eriksen, Leif Hernes, Lee Blakeley, Eva-Cecilie Richardson, Signe Domogalla, Kompani B Valiente. Leif has recently relocated to Vancouver pursuing a career in film. His acting projects include “Fish In Barrel” director Randall Okita, “His White Eyes” director Betty Jiang. Leif is represented by Dorothy Szymanska at Collingwood Management.

Sudesh Adhana, Dancer
Born in 1979 in New Delhi, India. Lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He has a BA in Modern and Contemporary Dance, from National Collage of Art (Khio) in Oslo, earlier educated in Mayurbhanj Chhau at Bhartiya Kala Kendra and Kathakali from International Kathakali Centre in New Delhi. Adhana has choreographed and performed 5 full-length dance productions. He has worked with leading choreographers and participating in national and international dance productions in India, Norway, Japan, Singapore, UK, and USA. He is currenty working on 3 new dance projects in Paris, Norway and New Delhi, India in 2009/2010.

Marianne Haugli, Dancer
Educated in modern and contemporary dance from Khio in Oslo in 2005.She has worked with choreographers such as Kjersti Alveberg, DansDesign and Hege Haagenrud. She works closely with artphotographers, such as Knut Bry and Tom Sandberg. She also produces her own artperformances, where she combines dance and fashion. This is Marianne’s first project with Emilia Adelöw.

Stian Andersen, Photographer
Professional photographer based in Oslo and has worked on an international market since the early nineties.

Ola Spek, Production Assistant
Producer, educated in media production at University West and MKFC in Sweden, Bachelor of Arts in The History of Science and Ideas at Göteborg University, Sweden. Has worked as Information Designer, Concept Designer and with different cultural projects.

Christina Lindgren, Set Designer
Scenographer with a background from Oslo and Berlin. Since 1993 she has worked as a scenographer and costume designer within theater, dance and opera in Norway, Denmark and Germany, among others at Thorshovteatret and Nasjonalteatret.

Good Night and Good Morning

Petter Wiik, composer
Wiik uses live electronics in combination with originally composed music creating a unique soundscape for Adelöws performances. A soundscape witch brings the performances much alive, vibrant and closer to the audience.
Petter Wiik is educated as composer at The Norwegian Academy of Music. Currently working as teacher at Oslo National College of the Arts, Ballet and dance. His musical compositions has been used at Trøndelag Teater, Det Norske Teatret, Olavshallen, NRK Radio/TV, Black Box, Carte Blanche in Norway and at stages in London, Lithuenia, Malmö, Copenhagen and Berlin.

Bjørn Amundlien, film editor
Bjørn Amundlien is educated as film editor at NISS in 2002. Has worked as an editor on short films, music videos and advertising. He edited and animated The Bible witch won Norwegian Award for Best Norwegian Short Film at Bergen International Filmfestival in 2004.

Rudi Simmons, video documentation
Educated at NISS – Nordic Institute of Stage and Studio, Film & Television. At the moment directs for TV, but got experience from different kinds of productions.

Tormod Lindgren, scenographer
Scenographer educated in London and Prague. Has mainly worked with productions for heater among others, Riksteateret, Nasjonalteateret, Torshovteateret, Rogaland Teater and Grusomhetens teater with directors such as Lars Erik Holter, Lars Øyno, Eirik Nilssen Brøyn and Runar Hodne. In France he has worked as freelance scenographer with new forms of drama as well as with a large opera/theater production at Theatre du Chatelet.

Carina Musk-Andersen, photographer
Freelance photographer with a wide experience in the arts. Since 2002 she has worked as an allround photographer with a focus on live shotings, music and art. Her style is somewhere in between photography and visual arts. Customers have been Slottsfjellfestivalen, Quartfestivalen, by:Larm NEWS, Sony BMG, Premium, Ekstremsportveko, Bula, Felicia, Carbiden, Grand Island, Ida Maria, X-queen, Royalties and Blind Archery Club.

Miguel Cortés, dancer
Has since 1988 contributed in different contexts within modern dance, dance theatre, theatre, musical and film. Among the nordic choreographers that he has collaborated with is Tim Rushton, Helena Franzén, Christina Caprioli and Palle Granhøj.

Cecilie Lindeman Steen, dancer
Educated as a dancer at Oslo National College of the Arts in 1982-85 and Central School of Ballet in London in 1986. Worked as a dancer at Nye Carte Blanche in two years in 1991-92, and since then with dance groups as Collage Dansekompani, Zakraz Dansekompani, Scirocco and zero visibility corp and choreographers as Jo Strømgren, Sølvi Edvardsen, Kristina Gjems McGill, Lise Nordahl, Kjersti Alveberg, Karen Foss, Un-Magritt Nordseth, Øyvind Jørgensen, Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Giorgio Rossi and Kenneth Kvarnstrøm. The last 22 years she has been working with choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen.

Maria Naidu, dancer
Debuted as a dancer in 1987 and as a choreographer in 1989. She was offered a company memebership with Jennifer Muller/THE WORKS in 1991. After 13 years in New York and 8 with THE WORKS she decided to return to Europe and her own choreography in 1998. Since her return to europe she has participated in a myriad of productions, tried her talents as an actress and has worked as rehearsal director (and later artistic director) for Swedish based Norrdans.

Lost Grounds

Alexander Vaindorf, video artist
Born in the earlier Soviet Union, has been living in Stockholm since 1987. His education includes exams from Konstfack / Fri konst in Stockholm, Fine Arts at Columbia University in New York and studies at Konstakademien in Stockholm. His main medium is film and video. Vaindorf has exhibited works internationally and attended several video and film festivals.

Peter Løchstøer, costume designer
Fashion designer based in Oslo. Educated BAhons Fashion at Middlesex University in London, he has worked with his own fashion label since 2001. Løchstøer works mainly with fashion.

Kenneth Flak , dancer
Kenneth Flak, born 1975 in Norway, works all over the world as a dancer, choreographer and composer. He studied stage directing at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Oslo, Norway, and mime and modern dance at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has been working with a wide range of choreographers and movement styles, most notably André Gingras in the Netherlands, Dansdesign in Norway, and Richard Siegal in France and Germany. In September 2007 he received The Bessies Performer’s Award in New York for his interpretation of Gingras’ CYP 17.

Inger Johanne Byring, lighting designer
Has been working as a lighting designer since 1986 with serveral groups and theatres. Teaches lighting design at Oslo National College of the Arts. Lighting design for dance is her speciality.

Guro Rimeslåtten, dancer
Graduated 2002 from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. Works as a dancer at Carte Blanche Company.

Ingeleiv Berstad, dancer
Graduated 2005 from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. She has worked with several modern dance acts in Norway.

The Walls

Inge Jørgensen, composer
Constitutes half of the duo iapga, published by the critically acclaimed, Oslo based label Miasmah. Points of reference are ambient, hip-hop and late-ninetees IDM.

Stig Skjelvik, industrial designer
Educated at Oslo School of Architecture. Established Skjelvik design in Oslo 2001.

Mona Ødegård, photographer
A fresh, up and coming photographer, who studied the field at Norsk Fotofagskole in Trondheim. She feels she can express herself better with pictures than words, and this has become her main motivation for beeing a phographer.

Thea Bay, dancer
Educated at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. Participated in the musicals “West Side Story” (2006), “Chicago” (2001), “Cabaret” (2000) at Oslo Nye Teater, “Fame” (2004) for 2Entertain, and “Evita” (2005) at Thalia Teater. She has taken part in several productions with Monika E. Herstad and in “Echoing Green” (2002) by Katrine Bølstad and Marius von der Fehr. She has also participated in several TV-shows and has formerly been a member of the Hip hop company “Circle”.

Sittibancha Bamphen, dancer
Educated at Nordic Black Theatre in 2001 and Oslo National College of the Arts as a dancer in 2004. Educates yoga in Oslo.

Ingeleiv Berstad, dancer
Graduated 2005 from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. She has worked with several modern dance acts in Norway. Among those she has cooperated with the choregrapher Mia Habib in the produktion “Harpa” and interpreted Solveig in “Peer Gynt” with her own choreagraphy, in association with “Den kulturelle skolesekken”.

Kirsten Hveding, dancer
Educated at The Royal Winnipeg balletschool in Canada. She has worked at Nationalballetten, Oslo, Norway, for many years. Later she has performed in many modern and improvised dance productions, also her own. Also teaches yoga.

Guro Rimeslåtten, dancer
Graduated 2002 from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. Works as a dancer at Carte Blanche Company.

Anne-Guri Tvedt, dancer
Educated dancer at Oslo National College of the Arts in 2002. Has worked as a dancer in serveral productions in Norway. Educates at Spinoff in Oslo, Norway.

Ståle Ytterli, dancer
Educated in vocal arts in Oslo, Copenhagen and New York. He is a singer that sings medieval music as well as modern musicals. The last few years he has worked mainly with musicals and showmusic.

The Venues

Agnes Nystad, dancer
Educated dancer at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts 2005. Freelance dancer based in Oslo.

Ingeleiv Berstad, dancer
Graduated 2005 from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. She has worked with several modern dance acts in Norway. Among those she has cooperated with the choregrapher Mia Habib in the produktion “Harpa” and interpreted Solveig in “Peer Gynt” with her own choreagraphy, in association with “Den kulturelle skolesekken”.

Thea Bay, dancer
Educated at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Performing Arts as a dancer. Participated in the musicals “West Side Story”, “Chicago”, “Cabaret” at Oslo Nye Teater, “Fame” for 2Entertain, and “Evita” at Thalia Teater. She has taken part in several productions with Monika E. Herstad and in “Echoing Green” by Katrine Bølstad and Marius von der Fehr.

Petter Wiik, composer
Wiik uses live electronics in combination with originally composed music creating a unique soundscape for the performances. A soundscape witch brings the performances much alive, vibrant and closer to the audience.

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