Inclusive Dance Company
Inclusive Dance Company is a contemporary dance company based in Trondheim, Norway. The company has since its foundation in 2000 created its own repertoary, including dance performances for both the young and adult audience. The performances have been shown in Trondheim, Norway and the Nordic countries.
The artistic aims of the company is to work experimentally and openly to create new dance, to gain impulses from and at the same time comment a surrounding world which is constantly in movement. Improvisation is an important element in the company’s work, both as such and on the way towards choreographic material.
To investigate identity and the body’s different possibilities to create meaning is an important focus area for the company. Contemporary dance can surprise, challenge stereotype images of different people and instead present new and more mobile perspectives on body and identity. Inclusive Dance Company is keen to challenge the image of the traditional dancer and dance stage, and seeks to cooperate with different dancers and artists in various settings. The company makes an effort to bring dance in touch with new contexts and new audiences, and it often works site-specifically.
Inclusive Dance Company was founded in 2000 by the dance artists Tone Pernille Østern (artistic leader) and Arnhild Staal Pettersen. Luis Della Mea has been a dancer and musician in the company since 2003. For its different productions, the company has engaged different dancers and other artists.
Please contact Inclusive Dance Company for more information, guest plays, workshops or questions. You can read about the company's current productions under the link Aktuelt.
Inclusive Dance Company aims at creating dance that is engaging, brave, accessible, empowering and of high communicative and artistic standard. Dance is recognized as a way of being in and knowing the world. In dance, human experience is being communicated in the body’s way. The company challenges itself to stay curious, always look for new possibilities and dear to enter unknown territory.
The company wishes to create dance that is respectful towards its dancers and audiences, but disrespectful towards prejudices about what dance is and about who that is a potential dancer. This includes a wish to support the dancers and artists being involved in Inclusive Dance Company to find and develop their full potential, and to listen to the ideas and experiences they bring with them into a production.
Inclusive Dance Company also aims at contributing to making dance more visible in society by taking it out into the community, to new and unconventional venues. The company wishes to inspirere more people to take part in dance themselves through teaching, discussing and writing about dance in different contexts.
Trondheim, July 2010