ABOUT
PRAXIS Oslo is a non-profit organisation established in 2013 by freelance dance artists. We grew out of a need to gather and share knowledge of artistic practices in the performing arts community; specifically in the field of experimental dance and performance.
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WHO ARE WE:
PRAXIS Oslo is a laboratory for the study of dance and movement. We offer classes, conversations, seminars, workshops, social events and affordable and accessible rehearsal space.
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OUR GOALS:
to strengthen the freelance dance community and address issues of concern in the field through classes, conversations, seminars, workshops, social events, and creating affordable accessible rehearsal space. PRAXIS Oslo creates an inside for outsiders, a container for dance artists who don’t fit inside of other institutional frameworks.
PRAXIS Oslo SUPPORTS, PROMOTES AND GENERATES:
- an expanded understanding of dance training, education and daily practice
- an expanded understanding of dance, choreography and performance
- a stronger collegial dance community
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​Ingvild, Oda, Olive, Ilse, Lisa & Hannah
PRAXIS Oslo
Partners
PRAXIS Trondheim is an initiative by and for Trondheim-based performing artists, inspired by PRAXIS Oslo.
Our partners include;Â PRAXIS Festivalen, Skuespiller- og dansealliansen, Musikkteaterforum, Norsk Skuespillersenter, PRODA, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival to build seminars and workshops for the field.
Praxis Oslo Board Members
Ilse Ghekiere
Ilse Ghekiere is a performing artist and art critic. She is the founder of ENGAGEMENT ARTS, an artists' movement that tackles sexual harassment, sexism and abuse of power in the Belgian art world. She is a dance critique at Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift.
Ingvild Bertelsen
Ingvild Bertelsen (she/they) is a dance artist and performer with a long experience in collective structures, art, and dance improvisation. They have a BA from the Danish National School of Performing arts, and a MA in Dance from KHiO (2023). She is also one of the founders of DANSEatelier- a recognised collective situated in Copenhagen.
Her work expands within the fields of improvisation and sharing complexity, as well as explosiveness in a
physical form. As a freelancer, they have performed across Europe, both in their own and in other’s choreographies in
cities as Oslo, Gothenburg, Bratislava, and Brussels.
Olive Bieringa
Olive Bieringa works at the intersection of creative practice and pedagogy in dance, performance, somatics and media. She is a teacher, and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and a program director of Somatic Education Australasia. She collaborates with Otto Ramstad as the BodyCartography Project. She is a doctoral candidate at the Theatre Academy, Uniarts Arts, Helsinki. www.bodycartography.org
Hanna Parsons
Hannah is a Queer, British dance artist trained at Trinity Laban and based in Oslo. Often working with voice and sound in her practice, she’s interested in creating immersive, tactile performance environments that allow audiences proximity to imagination and playfulness. Currently in her practice she is exploring the balance between narrative storytelling with abstract content - poetic layering of ideas through rigorous attention to detail in dance movement and image creation. She regularly collaborates with STICKY Productions and Unbaptised Infants (UK/ES). In 2025 she is developing her first work as a solo choreographer, RODEO.
Lisa Colette Bysheim
(on leave)
Lisa Colette Bysheim is a dance artist and choreographer based in Bergen/Oslo. Her work centres around language; playing with ambiguous text and choreography to open and expand the experience of navigating through layers of meaning. She has a MA in Choreography from National Academy of the Arts in Oslo and her work has been shown at; Norwegian National Ballet, BIT Teatergarasjen, CODA, Galleri F15 & Momentum, Officine Forte Marghera Venice, Spazju Kreattiv Malta, Theaterforum Kreuzberg Berlin. www.lisacolettebysheim.com
Oda Olivia
Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård is a performer and dance maker from Nesodden. She has a BA in dance from University of Stavanger (2019), and an MA in dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2023). Her current interest is exploring underlying or suppressed movement as a tool for dancing, which she believes can take us in different (and unexpected) directions, including closer to other people. She is investigating ways of sharing this with others through specific movement practices and methods for choreography.
Otto Ramstad
Otto Ramstad is a dance artist who makes performances, video works and installations for theaters, galleries, museums and different site and context specific encounters. He has an MA in Choreography from KHiO. For twenty years he has been collaborating with Olive Bieringa as BodyCartography Project. The mission of BodyCartography Project is to engage with the vital materiality of our bodies to create live performance that facilitates a re-enchantment of embodiment, relationship, and presence. BodyCartography has been creating performances, films, installations, and festivals internationally in urban, domestic, wild, and social landscapes.
Rebekka Sæter
Rebekka Sæter is a choreographer, artist and outdoor educator working in-between body, movement, place and narrative. She has studied performance at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire and choreography at Dartington College of Arts and Centre for Dance Berlin. She works as a project manager at Norwegian BioArt Arena (NOBA) and teaches outdoor and environmental education at multiple arenas and contexts.
Martin Lervik
Dancer, critic, out and about.