Tilt Grow Dancers 2024

Welcome to the 7th year of Tilt Grow with a brand new group of professional dancers in 2024. Participants in the programme receive individual artistic development with leading choreographers, mentor support and a series of tailor-made seminars. An important part of TILT Grow is also gaining in-depth knowledge about moving beyond the edge of the stage. Participants gain experience of this through teaching, choreography and project management.

Anders Engebretsen

Anders Engebretsen works as a freelance dance artist. Upon graduating from London Contemporary Dance School, he toured internationally with the company VERVE before obtaining an MA at Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2018. Anders has extensive production experience, both off and on stage, and works with playfulness and charm in collaborative contexts. As a dancer, Anders has worked closely with Carl Aquilizan over several years, and with dance artist Marit Meløe as the duo Meløe/Engebretsen. Anders has also worked for dancers in productions by Ida Cathrin Utvik, Ingri Fiksdal, STICKY Productions, and others. His own work has been programmed by RAS, Bærum Kulturhus, and a number of festivals both at nationally and internationally.

Emma Jansen

Emma Jansen (b.1999) is based in Oslo, and works as a performing and creative dance artist in her own projects and those of other dance makers. Drawing is also part of her work, and she explores the meeting point and intersection between these two forms of expression. Emma graduated from KHiO with a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance (2022). After completing her studies, she was part of NSP 2 (Nagelhus Schia Productions) where she worked with Therese Markhus, Ian Ancheta and Ingun Bjørnsgaard, among others, and is part of NSP’s tour with the work “In C” by Sasha Waltz and Terry Riley. Emma also participates in the children’s performance “Flekker” by Yaniv Cohen. As a creative theatre artist, she works intuitively and playfully, in relation to fellow performers and objects. She has co-choreographed the duet “OUTSTANDING” (Dans5, 2022 & DansINN, 2023), created the work “SLEEPOVER” (Extract Mind The Gap 2023), and is working on the solo project “How I look inside me” (Gamle Munch 2023).

Katja Weber

Katja Weber McGunnigle is a 22-year old dancer from Oslo. She started dancing nine years ago and has had a growing interest for contemporary dance ever since. Katja Weber has recently studied Contemporary dance at Oslo National Academy of the arts. For me, dance is largely about the humane meeting between people and the ability to bond and create relationships through movement, dialouge and discussion. I am interested in challenging the body`s capacity and physical possibilities. I am fascinated by what happens in processes where the body is challenged to its maximum capacity. What happens in the meeting between one`s own and others`limitations? And what kind of expression can it elicit? I look forward to my time in TILT grow. Here i will have the opportunity to dive deeper into my own artistry and work co-creatively with other experienced artists. Furthermore, i look forward to being a part of a community where we can share, inspire and support each other.

Shelmith Øseth

I’m Shelmith Øseth, a Kenyan-Norwegian dancer and performer based in Bergen, Norway. I got some of my training from studying at Langhaugen Dance High School and the School of Contemporary Dance in Sweden., aswell as working professionally with dance and theatre companies such as; The Norwegian Theatre in Oslo, The Nordic Beasts in Denmark, ZEBU Theatre in Denmark, Den Nasjonale Scene in Bergen, Nordic Black in Oslo, and others. My motivation is my desire for the continuation of growth as an artist and as a person. I hope for more people to have access to dance. Not just as “dance in a party” dance, but dance as in the wisdom and knowledge that’s within dance, the value it carries in the society, performances, dance classes and more

Carl Aquilizan

Carl Aquilizan was educated at Spin Off Pre-programme in Dance (2014-2015) and Northern School of Contemporary in Leeds, England (2015-2018). He has choreographed for various platforms such as Burst (Yorkshire Dance), Dans/5, Vin og Valsen and Mind the Gap, Bjerke Videregående Skole (2019) and Spin Off Forstudium i Dans (2019 and 2020). Today he works freelance as a choreographer and performer in various projects, and in addition to his own work, he has worked with Katrine Kirsebom, Kyuja Bae, Daniel Lukehurst (UK) and Martijn Joling (NL/NO). In 2022, Carl received a work grant for younger emerging artists.

Tormod Tora Skår Midtbø

Tormod Tora Skår Midtbø is an Oslo-based dance artist from Fjaler in Sunnfjord. Since graduating in 2020, they have participated in productions by choreographers such as Inés Belli, Tom Weinberger (NSP2) and Stian Danielsen. They also produce their own choreographic works, and will present their first full-length work at Black Box Teater during the Ultima Festival this autumn. As an artist, Tormod uses various tensions between vocal sound and bodily movement as a critical and choreographic tool. They have fallen in love with the Norwegian ballroom scene, which is becoming increasingly entangled in their private life and artistic work.