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With a skewed look at the world of fairy tales, the dancers take us on a journey where you as an audience can create your own story. Who are and what do knights, princesses and trolls want?

LIVE SKULLERUD

Live completed her bachelor’s degree in performing contemporary dance at the University of Stavanger in 2018 and now works freelance as a creative and performing dance artist based in Fredrikstad and Stavanger. Live dances for the London / Stavanger-based dance company Hagit Yakira Dance, in addition to participating in several stand-alone productions and creating her own projects.

Live engages in creating and practicing dance art with a desire to convey dance to a wide audience, and is in its own work concerned with creating a playful, physical expression in the borderland between the personal and the universal, based on ideas of identity and human interaction. In 2020, Live is “Årets Spire” in the mentor program SPIRE, a collaboration between Tou Scene and RAS – Regional Arena for Contemporary Dance in Stavanger.

OLIVER SALE

Oliver Sale is a trained dance artist from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, graduating in 2016 he has toured in the UK, Norway and internationally with dance companies such as Company Chameleon, Autin Dance Theater and Julia-Griffiths Dance.

Oliver works freelance as a dancer, movement artist, aerial acrobat and poet. In addition to working with and for established companies, Oliver also develops his own projects and performances himself. In the autumn of 2019, he was relevant with Panta Rei Danseteater’s performance “En … som” / “Born to Live” which is a co-production with Teater Innlandet.

ANNE EKENES, Artistic Director

Anne is educated at Laban Center London, MA in choreography, dance for camera and performance. She has danced with Transitions Dance Company and Attik Dance, and worked with choreographers such as Jamie Watton (UK), Allen Kaeja (Canada), Lois Taylor (UK) and Noa Dhar (Israel). Anne founded Panta Rei Dance Theater (PRD) in 2000, and as PRD’s artistic director, she has led a number of projects and choreographed works for both stage and experimental film.

PIA HOLDEN, Administrative leader

Pia is a graduate of the Ballet Academy in Gothenburg and the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. She has danced for the New York Dance Ensemble and choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Lise Eger and Lise Nordal. Pia has also worked with various choreographers in Brazil, including Cristina Moura. In addition to choreographing for stage, Pia has choreographed aerial acrobatics for the opening of the Nobel Peace Center. Pia has danced with, choreographed and collaborated on the operation of PRD since 2005.