Ole Willy Falkhaugen

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Ole Willy Falkhaugen has made his mark on the Norwegian National Ballet's repertoire, dancing roles such as Rothbart in Swan Lake, Gremin in Cranko's Onegin, Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker, the title role in Nureyev's Don Quixote, Charlatan in Øyen's Petrushka, Monsieur G.M and the prison governor in MacMillans Manon, and Pastor Manders in Marit Moum Aune and Cina Espejord's Ibsen's Ghosts.

In the modern repertoire, he has danced leading parts in productions such as Forsythe's Limb's Theorem, Ek's Sleeping Beauty, Duato's Multiplicity – Forms of Silence and Emptiness, León & Lightfoot's Safe as Houses and Kylián's Heart's Labyrinth. His role in Johannessen's Scheherazade was created specifically for him, while the choreographers Bjørnsgaard, Støvind, Boyadjiev and Espejord have also created parts and roles for him. He has also danced in various works by choreographers such as Tetley, Balanchine, Grand-Maitre, Strømgren and Alveberg.

Falkhaugen began studying ballet in his home town of Sandefjord, continuing at the Norwegian National Ballet School and the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm. He joined the Norwegian National Ballet as an apprentice in 1997, and became a full member of NNB 1998.

Hugo Marmelada

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Born in Lisboa, Portugal, in 1987. Started dancing hip hop at the age of 11 years old joining, 3 years later, the Academy of Contemporary Dance of Setúbal, where he finished his studies in 2006.

Since then he has been working with many different dance companies and choreographers such as Compagnie Alias, Amanda Miller, André Mesquita, Itamar Serussi, Bounce Streetdance Company, Oslo Dance Ensemble in 2010 and in 2016 working with Fredrik “Benke” Rydman, Jo Stromgren, Ole Martin, Karl-Erik Nedregaard and Knut Flatner, Christopher Arouni, Company It Dansa where he performed pieces of Ohad Naharin, Jirí Kylián, Rafael Bonachela, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alexander Ekman and Catherine Allard, Company Carte Blanche where he performed pieces of Hooman Sharifi, Sharon Eyal, Crystal Pite, Sang Jijia, Ina Christel Johannessen, Marcos Morau, Siri Jontvedt and Senelle Hall, Lina Majdalanie, Mia Habib and Marcelo Evelin, Norwegian National Ballet participating in the creation of Hege Haagenrud, Ariadna Montfort, Panta Rei Danseteater and Ina Christel Johannessen.

In 2017, was invited to join Batsheva Dance Company where he danced for 2 years, performing the pieces of Ohad Naharin “Venezuela”, “Last Work”, “Hora”, “Mamootot” and “The Hole”. Also participated in the creation of Marlene Monteiro Freitas, “Canine Jaunâtre 3”, for the company.

Parallel to his dance career, Hugo has been teaching many dance classes in many different countries, dance schools, universities and dance companies. Competed in many battles of hip hop dance, house dance and experimental.
Also his pleasure for choreography took him to the International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival Stuttgart, Germany, in 2012, winning the 2nd Best Performance and the Public Prize. Ending up touring his solo in Germany and in Brazil!

Hugo is now freelancing, teaching, performing and choreographing based in Portugal.

Dorotea Sayklay

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Originally from Montreal, Dorotea Saykaly started her professional career with Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2006, touring internationally and performing lead roles such as Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune. During the next 8 years with the company, Dorotea also experimented with the mediums of screen dance. She co-created, choreographed and performed in the screen dance films PAINTED (2012) and Brief Candle (2013) which were featured in international film festivals such as Dance Camera West in LA, Cinedans in Amsterdam, Dance on Camera in NY and Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal. Her installation

In 2014, Dorotea relocated to Sweden to join the Goteborg Danskompani where she has worked with renown choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Sharon Eyal and Alan Lucien Oyen. Initiating opportunities to create herself, she choreographed her first solo UNraveling which was later awarded the Audience Prize at the Warsaw Zawirowania Competition.

She has since then created Try Not To Spill (a collaboration with Arika Yamada) for NUDANS 2017, a creation program with the Goteborg Danskompani; Sing to me a deeper Song, a duet premiering May 2017; Within the gaps, the birds sang for OpenFLR 2017 summer festival in Florence; Rosy Retrospection which premiered April 2018 in Gothenburg as part of the 3D National collaboration project, lead by the Goteborg Danskompani, which toured to Dansenshus in Stockholm in and Skanes Dansteatern in Malmo; DOUBLE BLINDED a duet for two men presented on the small stage at the Goteborg Operans in June 2019; and finally SHE, her second solo which premiered in Montreal, Sept 2019 and based on the the novel “The Passion According to G.H.” by Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector. She is thrilled and honoured to be the first recipient of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreographer Award.

Jim de Block

Jim is performing in WhoTold You This Room Exists? (2018).

Jim is a dancer from Belgium, and he joined GöteborgsOperans Danskompani in 2014. He began his career in Les Ballets des Jeunes d'Europe. Following this he joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders. In 2011 he started freelancing as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. As a choreographer, Jim has created Revolution Askew (2007), Self;Devoured (2008),Time's Fool(2009) and Knee Deep Sleep (2011).

Fan Luo

Fan is performing in Frozen Songs (2017)

Fan is a dancer from Hong Kong, and he joined GöteborgsOperans Danskompani in 2012. He has previously worked with Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Company. He has received numerous awards in Hong Kong/China as well as in Europe and the US. He has also created several works.

Daniel Whiley

Daniel is performing in “Frozen Songs” (2017)

He is British dancer educated from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and he has a BA Arts Degree with First Class Honours (2003/2006).

Daniel has performed on several stages all over the world. He has been working with Punch Drunk in “Sleep no more” (2017) toured with “I loved you and I loved you” by Sally Marie (2015) “Piano Piano” by Ina Christel Johannessen, Kenneth Kvarnström og Örjan Andersson (2015), “Residual bits of sunlight & R&D” by Örjan Andersson (2014) and The Drowned Man by Felix Barrett (2014).

Anton Borgström

Anton Borgtröm is performing with zero visibility corp in Frozen Songs (2017) and Who Told You This Room Exists? (2018). Anton is a Swedish dancer educated from Åsa High School (Streetdance) 2010-2011 and Midgårskolan Dance High School (2007-2010).

Here are some of the creations Anton has performed in: "The Nutcracker Syndrome Tour" by Fredrik Rydman in Gothenburg and Münich (2017), "Come Back to See Us" by Ina Christel Johannessen at Stadsteatern (2016), Eurovision Song Contest “Man vs Machine” by Fredrik Rydman at Globen (2016), "Ett Slags Mellan" by Viktor Fröjd at Dansens Hus, Stockholm (2016) and "Danskampen" by Fredrik Rydman and Peter Magnusson at Gröna Lund (2016).

Ole Kristian Tangen

Ole Kristian joined zero visibility corp in 2016, and has since then been performing in Future (2016), Piano Piano (2017) Frozen Songs (2017) Who Told You This Room Exists? (2018) and When Monday Came (2020).

Ole Kristian (Norwegian) is educated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2011-2013) and Spin Off - Forstudium i Dans (2010-2011).

After his education he started working in the company IT DANSA under the artistic direction of Catherine Allard. In the company he did pieces by choreographers such as: Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, Raphael Bonachela, Catherine Allard, Montse Sánchez/Ramón Baez and Ina Christel Johannessen.

He also does project in collaboration with Jesús Benzal and they’ve been performing their work in different festivals and competitions, and was awarded first prize in the choreographic competition "Premi de Dansa de l’Institut del Teatre” (2018)

Ole Kristian choreographed his first commissioned piece for the company South Bohemian Ballet in Czech Republic spring 2016, and has since then done other pieces for other companies in Europe.

Ole is employed by the Alliance for Actors and Dancers, which secure professional performers income and social rights between jobs. To read more about Pia and the Alliance, click here.

Chiara Mezzadri

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Maria Chiara Mezzadri is Italian, but is currently based in the Netherlands. She has been part of several dance companies such as the GöteborgsOperans DansKompani under the direction of Adolphe Binder, and the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and the Nederlands Dans Theater 2 before that. In such companies, she has been involved in numerous creations and existing works of choreographers such as Saburo Teshigawara, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Frank Chartier/Peeping Tom, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Sharon Eyal, Marie Chouinard, Stijn Celis, Jiri Kylian, Pedro Goucha Gomes, Constanza Macras, amongst numerous others. It is in Göteborg, where Ina created the piece ‘Wasteland’ that she and Chiara have met.

While dancing professionally, Chiara has obtained her bachelor degree in ‘International Studies’ with the British ‘Open University’.

She graduated in dance at the ‘Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper’ and received her A-level at the ‘Höhere Internatsschule des Bundes’, both in Vienna, Austria.

She speaks fluently Italian, English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. 

Antero Hein

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Finnish/Swedish Antero was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, and he is currently based in Oslo, Norway, where he studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and graduated in 2012. Before his Bachelor degree, Antero attended Lunds Dance & Musical Gymnasium, a 3 year fulltime professional dance education. 

Antero has been dancing in musicals like “Cats the musical” in Malmö and “Sweet Charity” in Lund, Sweden in addition to a wide range of film and TV projects. In addition to this dance training he masters Parkour/Free-running, filming and photography.

He has been working with 4 1/2 Film/Nordic Film, Curry Film, NRK and SVT, and been performing in productions with Flukt Productions, Peer Gynt As, Stian Danielsen, Andre Danielsen, Kari Hoaas productions, Christopher Arouni/Arouni Dance, Masja Abrahamsen/ink production, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf.

Since 2012, Antero has worked with zero visibility corp. in the productions AGAIN, Terra 0 Motel and The Guest.

Camilla Spidsøe

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Spidsøe began her studies at the Norwegian National Academy of Dance in Oslo before continuing at the Madrid International Centre of Dance. She was a trainee before joining the Norwegian National Ballet in 2000.

Together with Daniel Proietto, she won first prize at the 2007 Hanover International Competition for Choreographers for his work, My mood made her betray her secret, and in 2008 she received two first prizes for Øyen's ... and Carolyn, at the Burgos Contest of Choreography in Spain and the Kedja Dansolution Competition in Copenhagen.

Between 2003 and 2013, Spidsøe was part of the Norwegian contemporary dance company Carte Blanche, where she took leading roles in all productions by Ina Christel Johannessen. Choreographers such as Eyal, Bjørnsgaard and Øyen have also created roles for her, and she has starred in works by Ohad Naharin – in 2006 she received the Critics' Award for her part in in the production of Carte Blanche à la Naharin. In autumn 2013 she was awarded the Tom Wilhelmsen Opera and Ballet Prize.

Camilla Spidsøe returned to the Norwegian National Ballet in 2013, but has also worked and toured with zero visibility corp. in the performances AGAIN (2012) and The Guest. (2015) 

Cecilie Lindeman Steen

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Cecilie is educated at The National Academy of Ballet in Norway where she now teaches regularly. She has worked as a dancer for 30 years, since 1985. Just as long, she has worked with Ina Christel Johannessen in Scirocco and zero visibility corp, ever since they studied together.

Except for 2 years in Carte Blanche, the performing arts free groups have been her working place, mainly Collage Dansekompani, Zakraz Dansekompani, Scirocco and zero visibility corp. She has worked with choreographers such as Jo Strømgren, Sølvi Edvardsen, Kristina Gjems McGill, Odd Johan Fritzøe, Lise Nordahl, Kjersti Alveberg, Karen Foss, Un-Magritt Nordseth, Øyvind Jørgensen, Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Eva-Cecilie Richardsen, Mia Habib, Emilia Adelöv, Giorgio Rossi og Kenneth Kvarnström.

Cecilie has received several national and international prizes for her work in the performing arts, and was the first to receive the Rolf Gammleng Award from Fund For Performing artists in 2003. Other prices are Performing Arts Hub Norway’s performing arts award in 1997 for the solo performance 180157 56780 and the jury’s Special Award for the same solo at THESPIS Internationales Monodramafestival in Kiel in 2001.

Dimitri Jourde

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Dimitri is born in France. He is educated from The National Circus School, CNAC in Châlons from 1994 to 1998 and since education working both in the dance and cirques-field. Dimitri has been working with directors, choreographers and companies such as Guy Alloucherie and Cirque Désaccordé, Kubilai Khan Investigations (1999-2005), François Verret, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jo Strømgren, zimmernan & de perrot and Yoann Bourgeois.Since the success “..it’s only a rehearsal” premiered in 2003, he has been working with Ina Christel Johannessen and zero visibility corp. in several creations such as: I have a secret to tell you (please) leave with me, It was November, (im)possible,  and the upcoming premiere of The Guest (January 29th at Dansens Hus Oslo)

Edhem Jesenkovic

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Edhem Jesenkovic is born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and is now living in Copenhagen. Through his childhood and adolescence he explored different ways of expression. He was strongly dedicated to music and enrolled at the former Conservatory of Music in Sarajevo. In 1993 he migrated to Sweden, where he discovered dance. His career as a dancer started when he was 16 years old, and he graduated from The Royal Swedish Ballet School in 1999. He has worked for several different companies and been part of many projects in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. He has also choreographed several performances based in Copenhagen.

Working for zero visibility corp. since 2013, he has been part of the productions Terra 0 Motel and The Guest.

Jon Filip Fahlstrøm

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Jon Filip has danced for Carte Blanche, Iceland Dance Company, Eastman and zero visibility corp.

Working with choreographer Sidi Larbi he has been both dancer and assistant in the performances Babel and Puz/zle that both won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. He has also assisted Cherkaoui in works for ballet companies such as Het Nationale Ballet and Koninlijk Ballet van Vlaanderen. He has also danced for and assisted the choreographers Mia Habib and Chrisopher Arouni.

Working with zero visibility corp., he has danced in the performances 37,7, and the latest production The Guest. 

Kristina Søetorp

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Kristina is educated at The National Academy of Ballet in Norway (2003-06).

She has worked with several productions and choreographers as a freelance dancer since education; amongst other Eva Cecilie Richardsen, Francesco Scavetta, Hooman Sharifi, Therese Markhus and DanceDesign. Kristina is also active choreographer and performer in the dance company The Line, creating both stage performances and film, which she runs together with Ida Wigdel.

Kristina has worked with zero visibility corp. in 6 productions to date, the latest being (im)possible (2011) and AGAIN (2012)

Line Tørmoen

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Line is educated from The National Academy of Ballet in Norway. She was engaged with Carte Blanche, the National Company of Contemporary Dance in Norway, between 1993-2000 where she worked with choreographers such as Ina Christel Johannessen, Kenneth Kvarnström, Jo Strømgren, Rui Horta, Jens Østberg and Ørjan Anderson.
 

She has worked freelance since 2000 mainly with Ina Christel Johannessen and zero visibility corp. She has danced in 14 productions for the company, among them the duet ”It’s only a rehearsal…” that was the international breakthrough with 130 performances in Europe, Australia, USA and all around Norway. Previous years, Line has been part of the following performances: Now She Knows, (im)possible, Leave.Two.House, AGAIN, Terra 0 Motel and The Guest.  
 

In addition she has worked with Kublai Khan Investigations, François Verret, and Jo Strømgren.

In 2007 Line received Rolf Gammleng Prisen from Fund For Performing artists.

Line is employed by the Alliance for Actors and Dancers, which secure professional performers income and social rights between jobs. To read more about Line and the Alliance, click here.

Mate Meszaros

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Máté Mészáros is born in Hungary and studied dance at the Hungarian Dance Academy in Budapest. During his studies he joined the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, the lead contemporary dance ensemble in Hungary. He received several prizes during the four years that he performed with this company; the Keresztes Mária prize (1999), the prize for the best male dancer at the 4th National Art Fesztival (2001) and the Zoltan Imre prize (2002).

In the spring of 2003 Máté joined Carte Blanche, the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance, and in 2004 he danced with the experimental Spanish dance company Lanònima Imperial. He also created two pieces of his own; Rush (2001) and Vossa Jass(2006).

Máté joined Ultima Vez for NewBlack 2009. Mate has been working with Ina in several productions with Carte Blanche and is dancing in AGAIN and in The Guest, that premiered January 2015.

Since 2010 his focus next to dancing is on creating his own works such as OneManCrowd 2010, 4Monologs, UnknownKingdom, and his latest full-length piece HINOKI from 2014.

Merete Hersvik

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Merete Hersvik is educated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, with a Bachelors degree in contemporary dance (2009-2012).

Merete has worked with coreographers such as Christopher Arouni, Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, and she has also done Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar's "Corps de Walk" with Carte Blanche.

For zero visibility corp.,  Merete has been part of "Terra 0 Motel", and now "The Guest".

Pia Elton Hammer

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Pia Elton Hammer started dancing with Fernanda Smith and continued with Jorunn Kirkenær, before she graduated from Fagerborg Upper secondary school in 1994. She then worked as an aspirant at Jeune Ballet International, Rosella Hightower in France for one year.

Between 1995 and 2000 Pia worked as a freelance dancer in Oslo, where she was part of productions by Dans Design, Oslo Danse Ensemble, Sølvie Edvardsen, Hooman Sharifi, Eva-Cecilie Richardsen, Stellaris Danseteater, Lise Nordahl and Un-Magritt Nordseth. From 2001 to 2008 she was employed by Carte Blanche, where she worked with choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Amanda Miller Antony Rizzi, Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Alan Lucien Øien, Jo Strømgren and Ina Christel Johannessen.
 

Since 2008 Pia has mainly worked for zero visibility corp. She has dances in 9 productions: 137.7, It was November, I have a secret to tell tou (please) leave with me, Thief After – clip 0, Now she knows, Leave.Two House, AGAIN, Terra 0 Motel and The Guest. She also teaches regurarly at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Pia is employed by the Alliance for Actors and Dancers, which secure professional performers income and social rights between jobs. To read more about Pia and the Alliance, click here.