ANNETTE BRANDANGER

Dance artist, choreographer and researcher

Annette Brandanger is a Norwegian contemporary dance artist, choreographer and researcher working across performance, pedagogy and research. Founder and Artistic Director of Skisser i Bevegelse and Artistic Leader of DansINN, she has spent over two decades building a practice as much about creating platform of relations for dance as about dancing itself.

CURRENT ROLES

2024 – ongoing Artistic Director (40%), DansINN

Regional Centre for Dance in Innlandet, Norway

2009 – ongoing Founder and Artistic Director, Skisser i Bevegelse

Research and professional dance platform for contemporary dance — sib-dance.com

2025–2027 MA in Dance Research for Professional Practitioners

Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance / University of Kent

Photo: www.miljofoto.no v/ Petter Lind

HONOURS

NODA's annual scholarship: Dancer, 2024

Scholarship, Arts Council Norway, 2020

One Dance UK: Selected for dancers mentoring programme, 2015/2016

SELECTED RECENT WORK (CREATING AND PERFORMING)

2026 NOT YET de(part): London / Tjøme

Collaboration with AAIS, KHIO, Færderbiennalen 2026

2026 SKETCH: Kroppens stemmer: dance, visual art and opera

Collaboration: Kunstbanken, Kirsten Flagstad Festival and SIB Dance Lab

2025 Skisser av kropp, klang og kunst

Co-created with Scarlett Perdereau, Bret Ola Volungholen, Kunstbanken Centre for Contemporary Art

2024 FRAMED: dance and visual art, exhibition: Wounds and Scars by Gerd Tinglum

Move Dansefestival, Kunstbanken, ensemble work with six dancers

2024 KNUTEPUNKT: dance film, produced by DansINN, dir. Johan Kuurne

Creative director and performer

2015–2026 Et lite stykke kunst / A Little Piece of Art

Co-creator, performer and teaching artist. Interdisciplinary performance-workshop, artistic collective touring DKS.

SELECTED RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

2025 Koreografen som forbilde / The Choreographer as a Role Model

The Conference of Dance, Stavanger — with Anette Sture Iversen

2024 Student Centred and Embodied Learning in Contemporary Dance (paper)

NOFOD Conference 2024, with Irene Velten Rothmund

2022 Dans deg inn / Dance Yourself In (paper)

NOFOD Conference, with Nina Denney Ness

TEACHING

Over two decades of teaching, masterclasses and workshops across Norway and the UK, including KHIO, PRODA ( Professional dance training, Norway), Høyskole Kristiania / BA dance , and the Constant Movement practice which she has taught continuously since 2011.

2026 NSKI, Oslo, movement for actors, substitute teacher, March - December

2025 KHIO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Teaching pedagogy / didactics, PPU

2021–2024 Norges dansehøyskole / Høyskolen i Kristiania, BA Contemporary Dance

Guest teacher, technique classes and choreography for 1st–3rd year BA

2015–2026 PRODA ( Professional dance training, Norway), teaching Constant Movement practice

Various contracts and commitments nationally