bærum kulturhus

regional centre for dance

sandvikanorway

www.baerumkulturhus.no

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Since the opening of our newest venue in 2003, Bærum Kulturhus has gained the attention both by the public and artists for its diverse and open minded programme. Bærum Kulturhus was awarded Bærum Business of the Year in 2010, being the first business in the art field to win the award in its 27 year long history.

Since 2011 Bærum Kulturhus has gained the status as Regional Centre for Dance. Our ambitions and actions are supported by the Municipality of Bærum, Akershus County Council and the Arts Council Norway.

Being a Regional Centre for Dance, our ambition is to be a visible actor facilitating artistic development, production and program-ming of national and international dance. Bærum Kulturhus is one of the most active players in the Norwegian dance field.

Our range of activities is extensive and con-sists of the following actions and initiatives:

Guest performancesBærum Kulturhus programmes a series of 6 national and international guest performances per year. Over the years a row of highly acclaimed Norwegian and international dance companies has been presented at Bærum Kulturhus: La La La Human Steps, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Cullberg Balett, Batsheva Dance Company, Sasha Waltz, Jo Strømgren Kompani, zero visibility corp, Ingunn Bjørnsgaard Project, Carte Blanche, Les Slovaks, Australian Dance Theatre, Russel Maliphant Company, Cirkus Cirkör, etc.

Children/young audience’s performancesBærum Kulturhus aims at showing high quality dance productions especially created for children. The newly-established performance series «Children at Bærum Kulturhus» has become a great success.

Bærum Kulturhus is a major art centre, situated in Sandvika outside of Oslo. Bærum Kulturhus consist of several venues and presents more than 500 performances, concerts and events every year.

Batsheva Dance Company “SADEH21”, nov 2013 Photo: Gadi Dagon

FragileFragile is an EU-project led by Bærum Kulturhus, in collaboration with organisations in Portugal, Estonia and England, on the integration of the visually impaired in dance and performing arts. The aim is to raise awareness on the importance of dance for the visually impaired, as well as to enhance the integration of the visually impaired in dance.

Ut i Scenekunsten (UiS) - a dance project for young professional dancers Bærum Kulturhus is the initiator and producer of Ut i Scenekunsten - a project aiming to help young Norwegian dance professionals entering a demanding dance career. The project offers selected dancers to take part in a high-quality production with choreographers from Norway and abroad. The first project was produced in 2011 and was choreographed by Kristin Hjort Inao (Norway) and Allen Kaeja (Canada). New productions are planned in 2013 and 2015. Tour productionBærum Kulturhus is the initiator and producer of a new informal touring network consisting of selected art venues in Norway. Our aim is to build and develop interest for dance in Norway together with other regional centres.

Co-productionsAs a Regional Centre for Dance, we con-tribute to the development of new dance productions in Norway. Our facilities are offered to selected artists giving the choreog-rapher and artists time and space to im-merse themselves in their creative processes.

WorkshopsWe organize workshops and forums for amateurs and professionals based on our guest performances and production work. We collaborate with Norway’s higher education institutions for dance as well as the local dance community.

Bærum dance campBærum Dance Camp is a summer dance course offering young dancers from the local dance community, and those pursuing a career as a professional dancer, a week of inspiration and training. The course is organized in collaboration with Bærum Municipality and the local dance community.

Audience developmentAll our activities are integrated in to our audience development work. Our aim is to build and develop interest for dance for a wide audience. We wish to strengthen and engage knowledge throughout our actions such as; kindergarten and school performances, pre- or after talks, workshops and seminars, national touring network, collaborating with festivals and building national and internationals networks.

For further information please contact:

Siri LeonardsenDance Program & Production Managersiri.leonardsen@baerum.kommune.no

Morten WalderhaugArtistic & Managing Directormorten.walderhaug@baerum.kommune.no