Ann-Christin Kongsness / Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
QUEER DANCE HISTORIES Ann-Christin Kongsness (b. 1987) is based in Oslo and is educated in dance and choreography from i.a. School for New Dance (Oslo), at the moment she is doing a BA in Aesthetics and Literature studies at the University in Oslo. She works both as a dancer and a choreo grapher, and has done several productions, her latest production ABOUT was nominated for the Norwegian Critics’ Award for dance in 2018. Kongsness writes for i.a. Dansens Hus, organizes discursive events and is the editor of the webpage framtidsdans.no and CHOREOGRAPHY (2016/18).
Brynjar Åbel Bandlien (1975) trained ballet in his native Norway (1991–93) and at the Hamburg Ballet (1993–95). Bandlien worked as a dancer for Netherlands Dance Theatre 2 in Den Haag, Holland (1995-98,) with which he toured Europe, the US and South-Africa. In 1998 he started to work as a freelance dancer in Scandinavia, Europe and the US. In the period 2004–2010 Bandlien helped establish the National Center for Contemporary Dance (CND-B) in Bucharest, Romania. Currently he is a PhD fellow of artistic research at Oslo National Academy of Art in Norway.
Text written by Ann-Christin Kongsness
Drawings by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
