Director: Irene Aarset Jansson
She has been educated in the Russian 8-years ballet education by professor Natalia Papina, who was the student of Natalia Dudinskaya, the ballet legend at the Vaganova Academy in Leningrad. She was performing in Russian ballet gala in Oslo Concert hall with guest ballet stars like Sergey Filin, Nina Ananiashvili, Anastasia Volochkova, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Margarita Kulik, Inna Dorofeeva, Vadim Pisarev, Tatiana Terekhova, Elena Filippieva, Irma Nioradze. She has performed different variations from the classical repertoire and different styles in character dance and was contributing in organising and participating as a dancer and pedagogue at the international summer festival of ballet in Hemsedal with guest dancers and guest pedagogues such as Dmitri Simkin, Daniil Simkin, Vadim Pisarev, Andrei Pisarev, Inna Dorofeeva, Anton Boitsov, Maria Alexandrova, Elena Glordidze, Aidar Akhmatov, Maria Kuchetkova, Sofia Golovkina, Irina Trofimova, Tatiana Galtzeva. In addition she was singing under Anne Brown for 5 years and has been active in theatre and musicals and was also performing as the main role “Annie” in the musical “Annie” at Brygge theater in Oslo. She is educated with a law degree from the University in Oslo with a Master degree in European law from the University of Southampton, England.
Artistic director: Siri Aarset Johansen
She has been educated in the Russian 8-years ballet education by professor Natalia Papina, who was the student of Natalia Dudinskaya at the Vaganova Academy in Leningrad. She has performing in Russian ballet gala performances in Oslo Concert hall with guest ballet stars such as Sergey Filin, Nina Ananiashvili, Anastasia Volochkova, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Margarita Kulik, Inna Dorofeeva, Vadim Pisarev, Tatiana Terekhova, Elena Filippieva, Irma Nioradze. She studied as the first Scandinav at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow in master class under principal Sofia Golovkina and with Maria Alexandrova as a fellow student. She has performed Ingrid in Vadim Pisarev`s Peer Gynt ballet in Ål Cultural house, and with different variations from the classical repertoire and different styles in character dance. She was a dancer and pedagogue at the international ballet summer festival Hemsedal with guest dancers and guest pedagogues like; Dmitri Simkin, Daniil Simkin, Vadim Pisarev, Andrei Pisarev, Inna Dorofeeva, Anton Boitsov, Maria Alexandrova, Elena Glordidze, Aidar Akhmatov, Maria Kuchetkova, Sofia Golovkina, Irina Trofimova, Tatiana Galtzeva. She was invited in the jury of the international ballet competition “Artik Fouette” in Crimea, Ukraine, in 2006 and 2007 with Vladimir Vasiliev as head of the jury. Was invited in 2011 in the jury in the international ballet competition “Serge Lifar” in Ukraine with Grigorovich as the head of the jury. She has a degree in Russian language and a master in Art History from University of Oslo.
Member of the jury 2017, 2018, 2019 in “Grand Prix Kiev” Ukraina, with jury leader Vladimir Malakhov
Member of the jury 2020 i “International Dance Competition, Koeln”, Germany, with director Sabrina Bosco
Member of the jury 2020 in “Tanzolymp” in Berlin, Germany, with among many Vladimir Vassiliev and Nina Ananiashvilie
The board:
Styreformann Martin Bokerød Hansen
Styremedlem Irene Aarset Jansson
Styremedlem Siri Aarset Johansen
Styremedlem Alexander Jansson