Hild Borchgrevink works as a writer, artist, and music critic. As an artist, she often works with language and time-based expressions. Her practice also builds on experience as a project developer and-manager in the field of contemporary music. She holds an MFA in Art and public spaces from the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts as well as degrees in musicology(Oslo), creative writing(Skrivekunst-akademiet i Hordaland and the Academy of Fine Arts in Tromsø) and performative criticism(Stockholm Uniarts). 2012-2017 she was the editor of Scenekunst.no, an online magazine for performing arts.
Lisa Reinheimer is a project leader of Dance & Dare and the critical forum for Art Criticism, and also a dance critic. She dislikes reviews, but is fond of a good story about dance. She writes for amongst others Dans Magazine, Theatermaker and various choreographers. Recently Lisa joined Fontys Dance Academy in the city of Tilburg as a teacher of dramaturgy, arts & culture.
Dirk Verhoeven is the producer and publisher for Dance & Dare and a communication expert at the dance developer DansBrabant. Dirk is an avid promoter of depth of thought and writing on the subject of art and culture on platforms for those interested in more than just article headings and numbers of rating stars. Accordingly, he organizes the Film & Life masterclasses with writer and film journalist Gawie Keyser in collaboration with newsmagazine De Groene Amsterdammer and the EYE Film Museum, in which film freaks write intractable essays about the cinema from their own personal perspective.
Thomas Irmer is a scholar and critic regularly contributing to Theater der Zeit, Theater heute and Norsk Shakespeare- og Teatertidsskrift(Norway). He has also worked for various international festivals, e.g. 2003-2006 as dramaturge for spielzeit europa / Berliner Festspiele. He has also made documentary films on theatre and theatre history, among them the prize-winning“The Staged Republic – Theatre in the G.D.R.”(2004). He lives in Berlin.
Ingri Fiksdal is a choreographer based in Oslo, currently finishing a PhD in artistic research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, with the project Affective Choreographies. Recent works include Diorama(2017), STATE(2016), Shadows of Tomorrow(2016) and Cosmic Body(2015). The work has toured extensively in Norway and Europe, as well as to the US and China. Diorama av Ingri Fiksdal is shown as part of Oktoberdans Oct 19 and 20.
Anette Therese Pettersen holds aMA in theatre studies from the University of Oslo. She works as a dance- and theatre critic in Morgenbladet, Norsk Shakespeare- og Teatertidsskrift and for Scenekunst.no, and is also an experienced editor and curator.
Snelle Ingrid Hall is educated as a dancer from Statens balletthøgskole(now KHiO/Oslo National Academy of the Arts) and from New York. She has worked as a freelance dancer for many years combined with making performances as part of Siri and Snelle productions. Snelle has taught at KHiO/Ballethøgskolen and Norwegian Theatre Academy/Høgskolen i Østfold, and is currently Associate Professor in Contemporary Dance at KHiO. Snelle Hall also holds a MA in Theatre Studies from The University of Oslo.
Anna van der Kruis, master of the writing course, graduated in 2003 in Creative Writing at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands. In addition to writing for theatre, Anna’s repertoire also includes short items of prose, preferably based on interviews. She casts light on people you wouldn’t normally notice and likes to zoom in on present-day symbols such as smartphones and sashimi. But ultimately the stories she writes deal with universal themes: friendship, parting, loneliness. Together with Theaterfestival Boulevard she created Speaking with Anna, a one-on-one program of encounters, in which she helps a performing arts audience put into words their own personal viewing experience after watching a performance. http://www.echtanna.nl/the-aftermovie/
Ilse Ghekiere is a Belgian artist and art historian who works as a dancer, performer, writer and educator. As a dancer she has worked with choreographers such as Michèle Anne De Mey, Mette Ingvartsen and Jan Martens, and she is a member of the Stockholm-based collective Together Alone, that focuses upon socio-political issues such as gender and normativity in a non-binary sense. Since early in her career, she has been interested in the relation between sexuality and performativity.
