Panta Rei Dance Theatre’s (PRD) talent programme TILT Grow is entering its sixth year in 2022. In collaboration with Talent Norway, we are pleased to offer artistic specialization and competence building for a sustainable dance career.
Tilt Grow 2023:
Aurora Itland
Aurora Itland was trained at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where she took a Bachelors in jazz dance. Since graduating in 2017, Aurora has worked freelance as a creative and performing dance artist within a wide range of creative expressions. As a performer, she has, among other things, participated in various musicals at Folketeateret in Oslo, but mainly worked on project-based field as a freelance performer. In 2019, she co-founded the Palette Dance Collective. In recent years, in parallel with dancing, she has delved into acting. This is something she also incorporates into her own choreographic projects. In 2021, she was awarded the Dream Scholarship in the category Dance.
Anne-Line L. Kirste
Anne-Line L. Kirste is a 2011 alumna of Bårdar Academy. Based in Oslo, she has since graduation been working as a freelance dancer, choreographer, teacher, and actress, with performances in Europe and USA, often collaborating with the world-renowned Norwegian sign language theater Teater Manu. As a deaf dancer, her wish is to bring dance to the deaf community and inspire deaf and hard-of-hearing children to express themselves in both sign language and dance.
Sindre Eriksson Vik
Sindre Eriksson Vik is half Swedish and half Norwegian, having lived most of his life in Oppdal, where he also began his journey in dance. He has attended Flow Dance Academy in Oslo and Trøndertun Folk High School. Sindre has been based in Oslo since 2015 and has a great passion for hip hop culture and street dance as has worked diligently to help develop the form in a positive direction. He is a member of the crew dEEp doWN dopEiZM, one of Norway’s most recognized street dance crews and works in Soul Sessions Oslo as a project manager. He has won several battles and finished in the top tier of many more. Being able to cultivate his own movement language is of the upmost importance to Sindre in his journey as a dance artist
Oliver Sale
Oliver Sales (They/Them) is a British movement and performance artist living and working in Norway. They hold a BA Honours in Ballet and Contemporary Dance from The Rambert School (2013 – 2016) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (2016 – 2017). Since graduating, Sale has worked as a freelance artist, performing across Europe with Company Chameleon, Autin Dance Theatre and Panta Rei Danseteatre. Alongside this, Sale has taught improvisation and performance methodologies at universities, companies, and through professional networks in the UK and Norway, and produces their own work for both contexts.
Ellinor Ødegård Staurbakk
Ellinor is from Engeløya in Steigen. Growing up on an island in northern Norway, she brings with her in her practice as a dance artist, and is inspired by nature and the kind of space it creates. She is curious and wants to test new limits for movements in encounters with different elements on land, water and air. Ellinor was educated at the Institute of Arts Barcelona (BA) and the London Contemporary Dance School (MA), where she was part of the dance company EDGE. Her years abroad have taught her to appreciate what we have in Norway and she wants to contribute to the further development of the dance community here. She does this by, among other things, being active as deputy chair of the Forum for Northern Norwegian Dance Artists.
Torill Kolsrud
Torill was born in Bergen. She has been active as a dance artist both in companies and as a freelancer. She has collaborated with Jon Ole Olstad, Daniel Proietto and Anna Källblad. In addition to this, she has worked with the companies ilYoung, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Nagelhus Schia Productions and is now with PRD. Torill is involved in the research project M² – CM, and is qualified to teach Dance for Parkinson’s. Torill is very happy to be part of the Panta Rei team as both a performer and in all other aspects the project!
Malika Berney foto: Neil Nisbet/Article19
Malika grew up in Sydney, Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of contemporary dance (minor in choreography) from ArtEZ University of the Arts in 2019. During that time, she worked with Wubkje Kuindersma, Michael Getman, Regina van Berkel, Samir Calixto and director, Hendrik Aerts. She had an internship with Rootlessroot and toured with Jasper van Luijk. She has choreographed her own work in Switzerland and Australia. Parallel to dance, Malika is a postgraduate psychology student and works with Dance for Parkinson’s. She recently joined Jo Strømgren Kompani and is excited to partake in TILT Grow 2023.
