PRAXIS Oslo organizes movement-based classes called PRAXIS Morning. We also host research-based workshops through PRAXIS Lab, as well as artist talks and residency showings.
PRAXIS Morning usually takes place Tuesday to Thursday, from 09:30–11:30.
*As capacity is limited, we kindly ask that you book in advance, even for free events. It is possible to show up and alternatively pay on arrival.
A 10-clip punch card. Show your receipt next time you’re at PRAXIS and you’ll get a physical card from us. 10 clips is the same as ten classes.
PRAXIS Morning with Iannes Bruylant
The class will be a contemporary floor work class in which the focus will be on relaxation and release into the floor. I usually start with a short warm-up inspired by the release technique and somatics as it helps get rid of unnecessary tension, which is a thread through the class “How to waste less energy and use momentum and release to drive movement». This is my goal even when the movement material gets more complex. Then I usually work on some isolated basic coordinations and floor technique through crossings. Later I work on longer phrasing integrating the elements from earlier and focusing on continuity. One of my main goals is an encouraging, positive and growth based atmosphere.
Iannes Bruylant was born in Ghent, Belgium. Until the age of 21 he combined a high-level gymnastics career (Top 5 Belgium) with a bachelor’s degree in Medicine (Ghent University, BE). Upon completion he joined the Bachelor Dancer/Maker program at Artez, School of the Arts (NL).
As a dancer he has worked and performed with Jo Strømgen Kompani, Nagelhus Schia Productions, Panta Rei Danseteater and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. His choreographies have toured in Belgium, Netherlands, Norway & Germany and he was a finalist and prize winner at the renowned Hannover international choreography competition.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
PRAXIS Morning with Sulekha Ali Omar
Social Improvisation approaches improvisation as an inherently empathetic practice. It asks us to acknowledge co-existence in the space — forms and impulses different from our own — and to be shapeable while staying clear about our own shape. Body, voice, and community are treated as forces that shape each other in real time, rather than elements a performer controls alone.
The class creates a space that resembles everyday life more than performance: open, non-judgmental, free from the pre-assumed posture of “being a performer.” Through improvisational sessions, participants are invited to unpack their own material honestly — approaching the work personally, rather than performing a version of oneself shaped by external expectation. This can resemble unpacking one’s own luggage: arriving, session by session, at a clearer image of oneself, with shape and form allowed to emerge and develop organically afterward, from within the group, rather than being imposed from the outset.
At its heart, Social Improvisation asks a simple question: how do we objectify each other, and how might empathy and openness — practiced together, in community — help us loosen that habit, toward others and toward ourselves.
What to expect: an open, exploratory class combining group and individual improvisation, working with body, voice, and presence in real time. No prior experience with improvisation is required — the practice is built to meet each participant where they are.
Sulekha Ali Omar is a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator based in Oslo. She trained at Bårdar before completing a Bachelor’s degree in Dance at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO) in 2007, followed by a Master’s in Choreography at KHiO in 2023, through which she developed the method Social Improvisation — using improvisation as a gateway into the social, where body, voice, and community shape one another in real time. In her own work, she is interested in exploring the magnitude and web of identity politics through this method.
Throughout her career, she has worked with leading figures in Norwegian performing arts, including choreographer Ingun Bjørnsgaard and director Marit Moum Aune. She has taught at KHiO, Høyskolen Kristiania, and Oslo Steinerskole. A crucial advocate for diversity within Norwegian art institutions, she has served on the boards of Dansens Hus and Kulturdirektoratet, and holds further board and committee roles including Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN). In 2011, she was recognized with the Hedda Award for her work at Brageteatret.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Residency Showing with Ida Haugen
The residency will conclude with an informal workshop sharing combining practical demonstrations, discussion and conversation with the audience. Rather than presenting finished material, I would like to share parts of the artistic process, introduce some of the choreographic methods and physical research developed during the residency, and invite participants into a dialogue about the project's themes, questions and future development.
Ida Haugen is a Norwegian-Vietnamese dance artist based in Oslo, working as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. Works within the independent performing arts field across genres, engaging in close artistic collaborations both in own projects and in the projects of others.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes residency showings with artists in residency.
The event is free, but registration is required so we know how many people will attend.
PRAXIS Morning with Geir Hytten
Practice: Survive and thrive - how to expose yourself to the unknown, to make use of your survival kit, and to make progress in a precarious situation.
Geir Hytten holds an MA in Dance Performance (Laban) and an MPhil in Human Geography (UiO). He is a founding member of Punchdrunk and has collaborated on various projects for over 10 years. He made and performed the role of Macbeth in ‘Sleep No More’, London, New York, and Shanghai. Other companies include Vincent Dance Theatre, The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs, Frantic Assembly, Rosie Kay, Daniel Kramer/Frauke Requardt (Sadler’s Wells), Coisceim, Emma Martin, Junk Ensemble, Liz Roche, National Theatre/London, and Complicite.
In Norway, he has worked with Jo Strømgren Kompani, Impure Company, Brageteatret, Ulf Nilseng, Kjersti Engebretsen, Marie Nikazm Bakken/Friedrich Floen, Elle Sofe, LATERNA, Katrine Kirsebom, Theater F, Simone Grøtte, Roza Moshtaghi/De Naïve, Gry Ulfeng, and Karstein Solli/Øystein Elle. Recently, he performed in Deborah Hay’s Dancing (2025).
He has choreographed and performed Vi Synger (2016), YOUR FAN (2018), hello brother stage and screen (2019-20), grief will be our companion (2021), RED FLAG (2024), WHITEOUT (2025), and is premiering Blitz Kidz at Dansens Hus, April 2027. He is currently employed by SKUDA, a Norwegian alliance for actors and dancers.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
PRAXIS Morning with Ilse Ghekiere
Over three morning classes, I invite my peers into a movement and dance practice I am currently developing as part of my PhD research at KHiO. The work grows from an archival exploration of the life of the German-Norwegian dancer, choreographer, and movement therapist Elsa Lindenberg (1906–1990), and from a desire to write a dancer’s life "as a dancer, through dancing". Together, we will explore, question, and play with some of the influences that shaped Lindenberg’s work: German expressionist dance and Rudolf von Laban, Character-analytical vegetotherapy developed by Wilhelm Reich, and the somatic teachings of Elsa Gindler, known in Norway as "Spenningsregulering".
llse Ghekiere is an artist and art critic who works as a dancer, writer, researcher and lecturer. She studied dance at the Conservatory of Antwerp and has a MA in Art Sciences from The Free University of Brussels. As a dancer she has worked with, among others, Michèle Anne De Mey, Mette Ingvartsen, Jan Martens. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Flemish Government to investigate sexism in the Belgian dance field. She is the founder of ENGAGEMENT ARTS, an artists’ movement that tackles sexual harassment, sexism and abuse of power in the Belgian art world. This platform has made her a spokesperson on these issues, ranging from giving lectures and workshops in art education to speaking for the EU-Parliament. Her artistic work is deeply research based and explores the tensions between sexual liberation and oppression in the arts. Her critical writing has appeared in publications such as Norsk Shakespeare Tidsskrift, Rekto:Verso and Etcetera Tijdschrift. Since 2020, she has been a board member of PRAXIS and co-established the new Praxis Space at Hausmania. Recently, she worked as a dancer for the Norwegian choreographers Solveig Styve Holte and Janne-Camilla Lyster.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Residency Showing with Ida Hebsgaard Mogensen
Hudløs is aimed at young adults. Especially queer people who have felt pressured to hide parts of themselves to fit normative expectations. This creates an internal dissonance, a tension between the self one shows and the self one feels. Hudløs explores these experiences through physicality, humor, and the abject body, opening a space where feelings of difference, shame, and self can be recognized and shared. It invites audiences to reflect on how we inhabit our bodies, how we are seen, and how we might claim space for more fluid, complex ways of being.
I imagine sharing excerpts from the work, elements of the choreographic score, and opening a conversation about the questions that have emerged during the residency. Depending on where the process leads, the sharing could also include a workshop, participatory elements, or other ways of inviting the audience into the research.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes residency showings with artists in residency.
The event is free, but registration is required so we know how many people will attend.
PRAXIS Morning with Katarina Skår Lisa
Finding our poetic nature- being together in relations is an experiential movement space, where Katarina wants to share a practice that unites elements from butoh dance, poetic movements and nature related cosmologies. Through improvisations, restorative movements and observations, we will explore being present within ourselves, but also together in the moment. We will make room for listening very specifically. Through the art of dance, we relate to the body as nature and the natural world. Katarina asks the question; how can our dance artistic experiences and practices give us a greater perspective and relationships to a more than human world and to the living world? Finding our poetic nature - being together in relations wants to create a space for movement exploration, community and open bodily questions. The class ends with some warming tea and dialogue.
Katarina Skår Lisa is an educated choreographer, dance artist, and teacher. Through her work, she explores the relationships between people, culture, and nature. With a poetic approach, she engages with landscapes and the more-than-human world to create connections between the body and the natural environment.
Her artistic projects, performances, and teaching practices—as well as the movement spaces she facilitates—are rooted in attentiveness, deep listening, and a sense of gratitude for all living beings.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Residency Showing with Hanna Våge Skjeggestad
Within a confined space, three bodies are connected through an electronic soundscape and a web of visible and invisible dependencies. They need, use, and are used by one another, constantly shifting between symbiotic collaboration and parasitic exploitation. The work explores how desire, fantasy, control, and resistance emerge when possibilities are endless, yet contained within a limited space.
Hanna Våge Skjeggestad (b. 1990) is a dance artist from Sandnes, based in Oslo. She holds a Master’s degree in Dance from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2022). She is part of the artist collective Noreveien 24, 3rd floor, and previously served as a board member of PRAXIS Oslo (2022–2024). She has worked as both a performer and creator in collaboration with various artists and collaborators. Her own work has been presented at Sandnes Kulturhus, Stavanger Concert Hall, DansINN, USF Verftet, TOU Scene, and Hos Arne. In her own artistic practice, she is currently interested in the multifaceted and intangible aspects of life that are in a constant state of change.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
PRAXIS Morning with Hanna Fe Lumen Mjåvatn
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
PRAXIS Morning with Gry Kipperberg
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Residency Showing with Lana Lisa Granerud
PRAXIS Oslo organizes ‘Residency sharing’ with artists in residency.
The event is free, but we ask that everyone registers so we know how many people will be attending.
PRAXIS Morning with Marit Ødegaard
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Residency Showing with Maggi Asbjørnsen
We want to share selected stages of the journey from encounter to accumulation and transformation: how individual objects alter the dancer’s movement, how carrying an ever-growing collection changes the possibilities of the body, and how the musician simultaneously collects and layers sonic material. The sharing may culminate in an experiment around the emerging creature: whether it is assembled outside the dancer, embodied by the dancer, or exists somewhere between body, objects, and sound. We warmly welcome the audience’s experiences of these different possibilities as part of the ongoing artistic research.
Maggi Asbjørnsen is a Norwegian choreographer, performer and artistic facilitator whose work explores participation, embodied presence and the choreographic potential of human relationships. Working across theatre, immersive performance, site-responsive practice and audience-centered formats, she creates performances that invite people into active encounters with movement, sound, space and one another.
Her artistic practice is rooted in contemporary dance, improvisation and somatic inquiry, and is informed by a sustained interest in how environments, objects and social structures shape human behaviour. Rather than treating audiences as passive observers, her work often positions them as collaborators whose choices, attention and presence influence the performance itself. She is currently interested in developing new models for audience engagement and creating performances that expand people's sense of agency, possibility and embodied awareness.
Petter Asbjørnsen is a composer and double bass player whose work explores the meeting point between structure, improvisation and listening. Working across experimental music, contemporary composition and collaborative performance, he is interested in how rules, systems and constraints can generate unexpected forms of musical expression.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes residency showings with artists in residency.
The event is free, but registration is required so we know how many people will attend.
PRAXIS Morning with Carlisle Sienes
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
PRAXIS Morning with Rosalind Goldberg
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Residency Showing with Eshidoreen Paradiso
Mazungumzo (“conversations” in Swahili) is a choreographic research project exploring the body as a language. Inspired by an experience in Tanzania where two people communicated through dance without words, the project asks how movement can create understanding across cultures and identities.
During the residency, the research focuses on the hips as a centre of rhythm, emotion, and communication, drawing connections between Tanzanian dance traditions and Hip Hop. Through improvisation, freestyle, repetition, groove, weight shifts, and an exploration of gravity, the project investigates how bodily expression can be transformed and reinterpreted within a Norwegian and Western context.
The event offers an insight into this ongoing artistic research, where movement becomes a way of communicating, questioning, and discovering new forms of connection beyond words.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes residency showings with artists in residency.
The event is free, but registration is required so we know how many people will attend.
Residency Showing with Martijn Joling
Choreographer and performer, Martijn Joling will in the end of his Praxis residency share some of his first findings on his current research; exploring the merge of freestyle rap and contemporary dance improvisation. In this spontaneous improvisation, incorporation both body and voice, you can expect the unexpected.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes residency showings with artists in residency.
The event is free, but registration is required so we know how many people will attend.
residency sharing with Haranni umakanthan
The theme of this solo project is liberation, which for me means freeing oneself from personal expectations, external demands, limiting norms, and oppressive rules. To free oneself involves challenging established oppressive structures, while simultaneously strengthening the authenticity of the individual and the community, and actively working towards new utopias. I aim to create this project to inspire the audience to begin or continue conscious processes of liberation. The project is also a healing process, both for myself and for those who participate in or are affected by the work.
Haranni Umakanthan (they/them) is a dance artist and choreographer. They are based in Oslo and have roots in Tamil Eelam. Their practice focuses on healing through movement, text, and voice. Haranni draws inspiration from, among other things, Bharatanatyam, improvisation, and contact improvisation. In their creative projects, they explore themes such as decolonization, intersectionality, gender, sexuality, and culture. They are also deeply interested in site-specific work and in being audience-aware in their artistic processes and works.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
PRAXIS LAB with Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness
Ann-Christin Kongsness (she/her) is educated in dance, choreography, aesthetic theory, and literary studies, and is currently pursuing an MA in Arts Education at NTNU. She works as a dancer, choreographer, writer, educator, and drag king based in Oslo. Her work takes the form of performances, seminars, workshops, lectures, talk series, texts/publications, and drag shows. She is the editor of the anthology KOREOGRAFI (published in three editions), and in recent years her artistic work has had an explicitly queer focus, as Robin in the drag king group Gutta and through the performance series Butch Tribute.
In her Praxis Lab, Kongsness will focus on choreography as a practice centered on making choices, and will offer different approaches to choreography motivated by various aesthetic theories. This session is drawn from her master’s project in arts education, Conceptual Thinking in Teaching for Contemporary Choreography.
*PRAXIS Lab is an improvisational session where artist can share any type of exploration, scores, questions or experiments together with a group; an open space to test, sense, discuss or reflect together.
PRAXIS Lab is an improvisational session where artist can share any type of exploration, scores, questions or experiments together with a group; an open space to test, sense, discuss or reflect together.
Residency Showing with BIANCA HISSE
Song of Distance (working title) is a new performance that departs from the Juruá River in the Brazilian Amazon, considered the most sinuous river in the world. Flowing through flat terrain with a heavy load of debris and residues, the Juruá constantly twists and turns, generating an excess of meanders. The performance adopts this sinuosity as both image and method, following its curves to think about migration, diasporic memory, and river knowledges as forms of survival and resistance.
During the Praxis residency I propose a studio showing/presentation followed by an informal conversation, where we unpack the main methodologies and references for the project. We will center on topics such as: how swaying practices transform through migration, how undulation can be a tool to navigate environments, and how dance can host complex, joyful and conflictual forms of belonging. I am particularly interested in using this encounter as a space for feedback and dialogue that can inform the further development of the work: responses to the choreographic material, to the research framework, and to how the work resonates with different lived experiences of migration. I hope this shared reflection can help refine the questions, methods, and public formats of the project, and open up potential future collaborations with other artists and the community connected to PRAXIS Oslo.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes residency showings with artists in residency.
The event is free, but registration is required so we know how many people will attend.
PRAXIS morning with Kristina Gjems
Kristina Gjems classes are based on the principles of Taiji and Qigong as movement meditation; grounding, breath and effortless flow of energy. We notice how stillness and giving attention to our inner landscape can generate movement. We experience our presence and porous membranes in communication with the surrounding space. The classes will contain guided form as well as the possibility to follow our own bodies in exploration.
Kristina Gjems graduated the London School of Contemporary Dance (1980-84) and choreographed eight performances and danced in 22 at Collage Dance Company from 1984 to 1992. She won the Norsk kassettavgiftsfonds prize for Veien tilbake in 1993, which was also shown on NRK and has since made performances and dance films in her own company Dreamscreen Productions. Kristina has taught T’ai Chi for 20 years with the Thai author and social worker Tew Bunnag as her teacher, and also works with Craniosacral Therapy.
PRAXIS Morning are "morning sharings" with artists who share their practice, score or repertoire. Tuesday till Thursday, from 09:30 - 11:30
Artist talk with Solveig Styve Holte
Choreographing an Archive of Relations: Singularities and the Common Shared in Dance explores choreographic methods and processes for the use of archives in dance. How can choreography exist as a singularity, as an object that makes visible historical dance archives, modalities of observation, and archives of tasks and situations? What if choreography is not about inventing new material, but about a process of composing, working with, and making visible existing materials and relations?
The research has produced new choreographic works understood as singularities through the use of existing material. I am drawn to the agency that material can have in shaping the work. An artistic creative process is always a site of references and influences, and I see the act of naming these references as something that neither diminishes nor undermines the autonomy or integrity of the artwork. Instead, it can contribute to establishing a broader field of knowledge within dance and choreography, and challenge the historically fetishized idea of the original, genius masterpiece, where its influences cannot be articulated, discussed, or traced.
The research has developed along two axes. The first axis I identify is the intersubjectivity inherent in choreographic processes. More precisely, I investigate how to create a productive learning situation in my work where what we produce emerges between me, as choreographer, and the performer/dancer/collaborator, and how the place, context, and situation function as co-creative materials in the artistic work. The second axis in my research, intertextuality, reflects my interest in existing materials, found dance historical archives, found forms of composition and modalities of observation, and in understanding and approaching these as something commonly shared within dance.
ARTIST TALK presents choreographers, dance artists, and others who, through their artistic practice, communicate, perform, and explore various forms of and approaches to choreography and performance.
PRAXIS LAB with Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki
In this workshop, we explore how to improvise within a defined frame. Through attentive listening and observation, we tune into the space around us and discover how it can inform and shape our movement. How does space influence the way we move and connect with our bodies? We also examine the distinction between pure improvisation and instant composition, playing with structure and spontaneity.
Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki began their collaboration in 1996 and later co-founding the company fieldworks. They have created more than 30 performances presented in over 30 countries. They explore performativity as a porous and shifting interplay of movement, sound, image and technology. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, their work creates layered performances where dance becomes an expanded field of inquiry. With sensitivity to both the organic and the artificial, they blur boundaries – crafting spaces where new meanings can emerge, quietly or unexpectedly. At the heart of Avdal and Shinozaki’s work lies a desire to reimagine the body’s relationship to its surroundings, and to invite audiences into this ongoing act of discovery. In 2025, they received the Hedda Award for until, which premiered at Dansens Hus in Oslo.
*PRAXIS Lab is an improvisational session where artist can share any type of exploration, scores, questions or experiments together with a group; an open space to test, sense, discuss or reflect together.
PRAXIS Lab is an improvisational session where artist can share any type of exploration, scores, questions or experiments together with a group; an open space to test, sense, discuss or reflect together.
Residency Sharing with Scenekunstkompaniet ØY
KRETS is about belonging to a flock, and about the feeling of being inside or outside. Krets refers to a circle of friends — a circle, a group you can be part of, or break away from. It is about a ring, an electrical circuit, and a physical/geographical area. It is also about orbiting around one another. About flocking together around each other, or around an object. About circular movements. About rotation. About how we sometimes, almost magically, can unite and be in sync.
KRETS is also about the idea that we are all guests on Earth, and about being part of a larger whole — or a cycle. In this performance universe, we do not worship saints, but keystone species, in a theatrical cathedral filled with a circle of naïve nature icons.
We would like to conclude the week at PRAXIS with a showing of the work we have done so far. At this stage of the rehearsal process, we would greatly appreciate feedback from colleagues and artist friends. We will present the material we have been working on this week, possibly including some costume tests or examples of scenographic elements.
Kompani D is a new professional dance company made up of performers with and without disabilities who create performing arts together. The initiative is led by Caroline and originates from Dissimilis’ national center of expertise.
The company embraces a diversity of talents and aims to challenge norms within the performing arts. Currently, the company consists of six performers: Marikken Eidslott, Christine Sandberg, Victor Guevara, Martijn Joling, Maria Lothe, and Maria Klungnes Berg. Since spring 2024, they have been building a shared choreographic language and method together.
PRAXIS Oslo organizes ‘Residency sharing’ with artists in residency.
The event is free, but we ask that everyone registers so we know how many people will be attending.
Lisa Bysheim
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My choreographic practice moves between movement, voice, and text to examine how bodies, language, and perception are shaped through power relations. I’m curious to invite participants to explore the gaze, agency, and soft power through embodied experimentation, repetition, and playful destabilisation of spectatorship.
Lisa Colette Bysheim's (1991) artistic practice unfolds in several constellations, both as a choreographer and performer. She has a research-based practice working with voice, text and choreography. She is driven by feminist methods that examine power dynamics, particularly the nuances of soft power as a persuasive and seductive force. Lisa holds a master's degree in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2021. Among her latest choreographic works are If This | Then (2024), Blue Carousel (2024) and In-Betweenness (2021).