Nordic Sustainable Dance Training

Nordic Sustainable Dance Training (SDT) SDT is a collaboration between Dansehallerne (DK), Danscentrum Sthlm (SV), PRODA (NO) and Tanssille Ry (FI), institutions that offer training for professional dancers. During fall 2023 and spring 2024, SDT has been carried out with the intention to share resources, expand and bridge various Nordic artistry with local dancers in Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm – while touring environmentally friendly. 

Within the framework of this new Nordic co-operation, one artist/teacher has been selected from each country to rotate between the cities. Each of the 4 artists has teached daily classes woven into each organization’s regular program. The artists are Daniel Sarr (NO), Dorte Bjerre Jensen (DK), Linda Blomqvist (SE) and Vera Nevanlinna (FI). These artists represent versatile and specific dance knowledge and artistic pedagogical practice of highest quality. Bringing them on tour to the other Nordic countries has been a possibility for enriching each country’s dance competence. The development of sustainability in the project includes facilitating a wider range of activities in addition to the Nordic exchange within our training programs. SDT’s activities have been expanding into the dance field in each country, including several other collaboration partners and activities giving different possibilities to share knowledge, create meeting points and new connections between a wide range of dance artists in the Nordic countries. In addition to the daily classes in our organization’s program, we have been collaborating with 15 different Nordic dance/cultural organizations. The artists have engaged in several extra activities each week, approximately 30 different activities: They have been teaching, writing texts for publishing, taking part in public talks, artist-driven conversations and sharing about dance, choreography, its general social context, and Nordic impact. 

Here you find the articles that are created in the project 

Inés Belli i samtale med Linda Blomqvist: Om kunstnerisk praksis basert på omsorg

Vera Nevanlinna - PRACTICE LIFE

Dorte Bjerre Jensen - Composing Mutual Ties 

Now this round of the collaboration has come to an end. But the relationships are built and the talk between our organizations continues for a stronger Nordic Dance field.  

SDT is funded by The Nordic Culture Fund.