Tilt Grow Choreographers 2023

Disse seks koreografene samarbeidet med Tilt Grow-danserne om å skape seks unike soloforestillinger.

Ina Christel Johannessen

Ina Christel Johannessen (ICJ) was born and lives in Oslo Norway. She finished her education in choreography at The National Academy of Performing Arts, and immediately started her career as choreographer. This has led her to more than 70 works. ICJ founded her company Zero Visibility Corp in 1996, and thrills audiences worldwide. Sydney Opera House, Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, Sadler’s Wells in London, Place Des Arts in Montreal, Mercat de Flores in Barcelona, Movimentos in Wolfsburg and Belgrade Dance festival are some of the places the company has been invited to.

“Frozen Songs” is one of the productions that has been touring intensely , it revolves around the Global Seed Vaults in Svalbard/Norway and the climate changes that threatens the globe.

Daniel Mariblanca

Daniel Mariblanca was born in Barcelona in 1981. He graduated from the l’Institut del Teatre in Contemporary Dance. He has been a professional dancer for over 15 years. In 2016 he created his own company 71BODIES, a transgender inclusive dance performance company, based in Bergen, Norway.

Sita Ostheimer

After finishing her study at the University for Music and Performance Art in Frankfurt Germany 2001, Sita joined MS Schrittmacher at Staatstheater Oldenburg, worked with Itzik Galili in Groningen 2004-06 and Krisztina de Chatel in Amsterdam 2006-2007 In 2007 she joined Hofesh Shechter Company and worked with him as a dancer, workshop leader and choreographic assistant until 2018.

She re-staged his work at companies such as NDT I, Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet Basel, Staatsballett Berlin, Aterballetto Italy , Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden and Staatstheater Kassel. As a freelance Choreographer she created commissioned work for Frontier Danceland Singapore, Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Kassel, Stadttheater Pforzheim, Dancecompany Rostock, Bodhi Project Sead Salzburg, Verve ’19 and ‘22 Leeds, as well created for Universities such as Folkwang University Essen and University for Music and danse Cologne.

Since 2017 she is the Artistic Director of her berlin based platform Sita Ostheimer Company, collaborating with guest dancers and a set group of music composers, light-designers and visual artists. With the Companie artists she created work such as Molimo, Chasm, Us, Two, Human in pieces, Everything that’s left, The Inevitable and You. The work performed at Fuori Programma Festival Rome, Bolzano Danza, Festival

Aperto Reggio Emilia, Daegu International Dance Festival Korea, Španski Borci Cultural Center Ljubljana, Deltebre Dansa Spain and Dock11 Berlin. In 2021 Sita Ostheimer received an Artist Prize by POOL -INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival BERLIN / DOCK 11, for her ongoing work and outstanding aesthetics in choreography and film.

Russell Maliphant

Russell Maliphant trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet where he worked for 7 years before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance.

He performed with DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark Company, Rosemary Butcher and Laurie Booth – with whom he was awarded a Time Out Live award for ‘raising improvisational dance to new heights’ in 1991. Between 1991–1994 Maliphant also studied anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, and qualified as a practitioner of the Rolf Method of Structural Integration (or Rolfing). These studies have informed both his teaching and choreographic work, alongside further studies in a diverse range of body practices and approaches, whilst exploring context and currency of movement.

Since 1994 he collaborated closely with lighting designer Michael Hulls, evolving a language where movement and light are intimately connected and the meeting point becomes a language in itself.

Maliphant was the guest artistic director of National Youth Dance Company in 2019, creating work on 40 young dancers, presented at Sadler’s Wells in 2020 he has also gained his PhD in 2020, to stand alongside the honorary doctorate he received from Plymouth University in 2011. Russell has been an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells since 2005.

Harald Beharie

Harald Beharie(he/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo.

While applying various formats and contexts his practice looks into alternative modes of being, dancing and existing together while questioning notions of normativity. Harald holds an interest for the unpolished, the DIY and vulnerability of being in the unknowing. His choreographic practice unfolds in various constellations with other artists using dance as a medium for creating elusive spaces of ambivalence and fantasy, oscillating between deconstruction and construction, optimism and doubt, apathy and affect.

Some of the leading interests in his work at the moment are dissecting known physical narratives and opening for a conscious naivety and playfulness while indulging into practice of the pathetic, collapsing, joyful, failing and persistent body. Haralds focus is being with local people, local ideas, and developing ideas with and within the community.

Daniel Proietto

Daniel Proietto was born in Argentina, where he studied classical ballet at the school of the Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires. He began his professional career at the age of 16 with the Ballet of Santiago, Chile and, later, as a member of the Ballet of the Argentine Theatre and the Contemporary Ballet of the San Martín Theatre.

In 2003 he joined Carte Blanche, the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, where he became one of its most outstanding dancers. And in 2013 the Norwegian National Ballet created the position of “Guest Artist” for Proietto, one of the first occasions in which a contemporary dancer is granted such status with a ballet company.

Proietto worked internationally as an independent artist and choreographer since 2005, touring the world at important venues such as the New York City Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the National Theater of Chaillot in Paris, Bunkamura and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, the National Theater and the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, Esplanade in Singapore, Forum in Monaco, the Coliseum and Sadler’s Wells in London, to name a few.