Venke Marie Sortland
When the Fluidity of the Form Becomes the Firm Point Venke Marie Sortland is a dancemaker and performer based in Oslo. She has her artistic education from the School of Contemporary Dance in Oslo, and has studied pedagogy and aesthetics at the University of Oslo. Venke has been performing for choreographers like Ingri Fiksdal and Jana Unmüßig. She has also made her own work, in collaboration with dancemaker and performer Pernille Holden, and with Landing – a production unit for situational and audience-specific projects. Venke teaches at the School of Contemporary Dance in Oslo, and writes on a regular basis for scenekunst.no og periskop.no. Flytende Landskap is a project by and with the production unity Landing, initiating, producing and conveying situation-specific and target group-specific dance as art. Landing was established in 2005 by 11 dancers and choreographers from Skolen for Samtidsdans (Oslo School of Contemporary Dance). As of today, the staff of Landing consists of Venke Marie Sortland, Ida Gudbrandsen and Sigrid Hirsch Kopperdal.
