«Through my artistic work and teaching I wish to inspire, facilitate curiosity, happiness, development and reflections. To everyone involved and to the audience»
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Meet me
Hi! I am a creative soul with many plans and ideas. Always looking for ways to learn, develop and share my passion for the art of dance and movement.
My creating, performing and teaching sides fuels and strengthens each other. Through different jobs and projects, I build my path and expression in the world of movement, dance, culture and art.
THE BEGINNING:
I started dancing in high school in a small town north in Trøndelag, Norway at the age of 16. My dance journey continued in Norway and Sweden at different dance programs, before I then took a Bachelor in Modern Theatre Dance at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Here I got a broad and steady training within the styles of contemporary, improvisation and ballet. The training and tools gave me a good foundation to build my physical expression upon. Since then, I’ve continued to broaden my physical horizons, learning new performative skills and developing the ones I already have.
After a couple of years freelancing with Amsterdam as my base, I came autumn 2016 back to Norway full time. To add teaching to my knowledge, taking PPU. Since then I have been living in Norway again in different places. Dancing, creating and teaching both regionally, nationally and internationally
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Back in Norway, in my small town, I just want to get out there again to continue training, dancing, and engaging with colleagues from everywhere .😌
Though my dance trip was short and intense, it fueled me in many ways. 🙏🏻 and thank youuu, @asnehakvag for joining me on this crazy dance trip—you elevated the experience a lotl! 💛 🥳
I find it beneficial to step out of Norway occasionally, to among things gain perspective on the dance bubble we have here…and to meet other like-minded people and movers. As much it is a fresh breath of air, I also feel just as much at home in a Berlin studio with familiar faces, as in class in any city in Norway.
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It’s again, going to be another long summer to keep myself occupied, but I can live off the inspiration from this trip for a while.
If you are in the same situation and want to train with me, chat, go on a trip, or do something creative, feel free to reach out! 👋🏻
With that good summer everyone. I hope it will be a nice one for you 🧡😊
First photo: Øyvind Malum (2022) of the solo Trøstedans.
Second photo: aftertalk B12
Having fun with filming and people having fun with our film 😅 ..🖤🩶🤍 @charisge_
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I think we had a nice learning atmosphere in the group . Facilitated well @lewiswilkins88 👏🏻
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thanks to @b12.research.or.die for these days, and toitoi with the rest of the summer program / month!
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#partnering #movement #collaboration #listening #contactimprovisation
10 years in the workingfield.
After three years of training in Amsterdam, I started my freelance journey. I went in autumn 2014 back to Norway to do a smal internship with a company. That did not happen. They had made other plans, and forgotten me. Lucky Denmark and @dongnudk physical theater took me under their wings, and the performance N.A.R.G, became a wonderful adventure now and then over 2 years 🙏🏻🧡 Thank you so much guys for the kickstart.
Looking back on the past 10 years, they somewhat went fast. Wonderful projects, people, moments, training and growth..that needs time. This text cannot comprehend it all. A lot though of what I would love to have, need and want now did not happen..but a lot did 🙏🏻 and stuff I could not foresee. This is the thing with the art/culture/dance field (and life) it is hard to predict the road. You dance it as you go, take what opportunities are given, and create the ones that don`t. 🤸🏻♀️
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Dance itself has been a huge support through hard times and different kinds of griefs. Even the ones that the working field and people in it have given me. I find strength and happiness in keep on moving, sharing, producing, teaching, developing and creating. 🎉
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Good thoughts are sent and a HUGE thank you to all the wonderful people who I got to work with so far, met, and good talks. There is many great people with caring hearths and actions in the dance/art/culture field too. 💗
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The 10 year treat to myself is going to Berlin 🥳 (not founded) for some intensive days of dancing, moving and performing! 💙 though paying to dance , Im looking forward to train with others at a high international level again. I have chosen two courses in styles I am fairly good at. So for once not for developing much skills, or to reach new milestones. Just to train and enjoy. It feels weird, and nice.
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This autumn, working on moving to Oslo . Anyone has a room or a job? I have been planning this for years, but life does not go as planned for me, surprises hit + + but knock on wood to a new chapter.
Heres also to the next year(s) and what it might hold. 🥂 Grateful at hearth, here we go. X
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📸 Trygve Olav Aasen (2022)
Got some more pics today from @dansit_koreografisk_senter to good to not share. Oh my the last one 😅 ..dancers should not be afraid of dust.
Cropped IG versions of Arne Hauges pictures ,👏🏻🌟
Context:Cosmetic Demons a popup salong by Sindri Ruddude. Here at Rosendal Teater.
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I hope this spring has been kind to you, mine has had its highs <3 but mostly been hard and challenging in many ways, and they continue. Like performing an acrobatic contactimprovisation duet this weekend with another physical disfunction (not eyesight contactlenses++) but I operated an arm last week... 😬 So we are going to figure out that to somehow, step by step. 🌟 💪🏻
Then it is wonderful to look back at these moments. That I could just be a Cosmetic Demon for a while, happy and energetic spilling my ideas and movements all over the floor. 🖤🤎🩶🤍. To awesome beats by 🎶 @tilliander
#nordicstyle . #improvisation #nordiculture #cosmeticdemons #sindrirunudde #instantcomposition #norwegiandancer #trønder #danceimprovisation #danceonfilm #contemporarydance #gingersofinstagram #gingerhair
I post this little improvisation here, since got so many likes on my history (thank you! 🙏🏻🤍🖤🩶🤎) for others to see later.
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I could have edited the video .
I could have explore more what I could do with the music, bench, and wall and their relation before filming (and I did after).
I could have polished my technique
I could have analyzed what qualities would fit.
I could have choreographed and would have found the best and coolest moves.
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That is all good and often I do but sometimes. Just. Move 🧡
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Def I would love to choreograph a group piece based in this song and impro and hopefully will at some point, I got ideas, but I try to not use time on it. 😬I have so many choreographies still not thaught or shared anywhere else yet.
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So this was just for fun and for my own stylistic exploring, feeding a little my choreographic self. Thank you for watching 🤎 🩶
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#savagedaughter @ekaterinashelehova #nordicstyle #folklore. #improvisation #nordiculture #pageant #norse #samtidsdans #norsemythology #nordicinspiration #instantcomposition #Ekaterinashelehova #norwegiandancer #danceimprovisation #danceonfilm #contemporarydance #gingersofinstagram #gingerhair
Video: a little jam with well known movements. No thinking, no polishing, just do.
That is so underrated for training, see what sticks, finding new pathways and fun! ✨ I do it not often lately .. Lets face it also because of the floor I usually have avaiable but #notetoself this is great.
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Thank you Sverre Turn X for these 3 years.
It has been great to come back, ca 15 years later.. (!) I was a competitive gymnast there while starting to dance in high school. 😊
feel just much at home in this setting, the floor, the smells, the vibe, the moves.
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It has also been healthy to train with others once a week. Def the training highlight of my week here, and I am trying to take those signs seriously ..
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that I am (really) bored ++ more. It goes in waves, but I have been feeling alot for quite a while. we humans need to be in movement but our life needs it too..
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I need something else, development, more.. 🧡And will need to look for it more too. Good development opportunties seem to not come easy for me...
So here we go again and thanks everyone for this treat every wednesday. 🧡
I have really appreciated it. x
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#gymnastic #gymnasticsforlife #contemporarydance #samtidsdanser #jamming #movers #acrodance #acrobatic #softaesthetic #softacrobatics #floorwork #handstandpractice #handstand #danser #movementpractice
When first at it, lets share again here a snippet from "Mosedans," My little dance spin off from the really cool music video by @gabbarein : Ra Rising Sun (worth seeing) AND this duo just came out with an new song AND their debut album today! 🎉 🧡 👏🏻 Check it out! ✨
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Ps:Whole Mosedans in length and width can be found on my IG or my youtube 🙂
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#gabbarein #nordic #wardruna #improvisation #nordiculture #pageant #norse #nordicinspiration #norwegiandancer #danceimprovisation #danceonfilm #contemporarydance #gingersofinstagram #gingerhair
Finally understood this is the format to share videos here ... but hey I find it a little hard to see myself that close 😳 😅 well worth a try because I see videoes in this format often get more views. Whole video in length and width though also be found on my IG page
Here: Dancing next to paintings at Bobyn, Verdal. Getting inspired by them. Would love to do this more. @atelier____lena fine maleri 👏🏻 ✨ gå og ta en titt! 😊
Jeg var forsiktig og var ikke borti noen 🧡🎨
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#dancing #paintings #malerier #dansvedmaleri
Dansens dag! ✨ 🧡
Improvisasjon ved salgsutstillingen til Atelier Lena på Bobyn, Verdal. Fredag 26 april.
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#danser #maleri #danceandpaint #samtidsdans #abstrakt
#inspiration #danceimprovisation #dansensdag
*jeg var forsiktig og ikke borti noen maleri
A little video from the Saturday Cosmetic Demons pop up salong (45min) by Sindri Ruddude.💚
At Kunsthall Trondheim.
For more info: https://dansit.no/aktiviteter/cosmetic-demons-a-choreographic-salon-the-pop-up-version-sindri-runudde-se/?lang=en
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#cosmeticdemons #improvisation #physicaltheatre #contemporarydance #samtidsdans #enjoy #hairdresser #nordicstyle . #improvisation #nordiculture #cosmeticdemons #sindrirunudde #instantcomposition #norwegiandancer #trønder #danceimprovisation #danceonfilm #contemporarydance #gingersofinstagram #gingerhair
Thank you Sindri Láuper, Maja, Veslemøy, Ken, Ellinor og Andreas for this journey at “Cosmetic demons - a pop up salong”. I feel very happy to get to work with you all.💚🧡
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I felt connected to the choreographic work, the process, as well as getting freedom for my own ideas, trust. It is wonderful as a performer when we feel all this. Will not spoil much, but I look forward to see the stage version in Norway. I`m coming.
Thanks also to DansiT, Asgerdur G. Gunnarsdottir and Praxis. My first experience with joining Multiple dance festival not only as an audience, but also as a perfomer was amazing. The whole weekend enriched me a lot. 💙🩷 nice to see the dance scene in Trøndelag growing. A lot of talented people here.
“enjoy your life”. 🎶
Some of the 📸 by Arne Hauge and DansiT
First picture by : Anna thu Smith
#nordicstyle . #improvisation #nordiculture #cosmeticdemons #sindrirunudde #instantcomposition #norwegiandancer #trønder #danceimprovisation #danceonfilm #contemporarydance #gingersofinstagram #gingerhair
Røtter 6 April 24.
Got some nice pics! Thank you @rune.aasen 📸 👏🏻 ✨
Also thanks to Stiklestad National Culture Centre (SNK)@stiklestad1030 @scandicstiklestad for the cooperation 🙂
And cool braids by: @fernandofrisorene 👏🏻
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Røtter (roots) is a performance that had been in planning for six months. It was also two years since I last showed a version of my vikingsolo.
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It was wonderful to come back to this world, to further develop the work, and visit older scenes. Also fun to challenge myself as a creator and do again something I haven`t really done or made before (the new long tekst and movement and song scene). A long process, that I never gave up on.
Now I am satisfied with the new result, and there are many to thank along the way for that. This round I send a thank you for your input and guidance of the new scene to: Thula, Mathias, Astrid, Thale and SNK.
Roots is not finished, and has further development plans. While the next step is brewing, I`d love to perform this 15-20 solo version (with or without video) elsewhere. Feel free to give me a hint og tip if you know of a place, festival og event you think this creation could fit.
*Thank you to the audience who came, and to you who messaged me and said to me that you would have liked to come but couldn`t, like at Made in Værdaln in January, It`s heartwarming that you`re thinking about it. 🧡
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#kulturarv #viking #vikings #brukogkast #brukogkastsamfunn #kamp #raide #samtidsdans #tradisjon #forfedre #contemporarydance
