Andreas Bjørneboe
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- Professor
- School of Arts, Design and Media
Background
Andreas Bjørneboe is a professor of dance at the Kristiania University College, Department of Performing Arts, where he teaches modern dance (Graham and Cunningham techniques) and classical ballet. Additionally, he works as a choreographer and sets repertoire for students' performance practice.
With a long and international career as a performing dancer, Bjørneboe has experience with leading ballet companies and groundbreaking ensembles, primarily in the USA and New York. Among these are the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company, Alberta Ballet in Canada, as well as several other renowned groups. He has danced a wide range of repertoire, from classical and neoclassical works to historical modern dance, contemporary dance-theater, and film, created by celebrated choreographers such as Martha Graham, Alwin Nikolais, Donald Byrd, Doug Varone, Graeme Murphy, Birgit Cullberg, Pearl Lang, John Butler, Domy Reiter-Soffer, Fernand Nault, Sergei Gritsai, Brydon Paige, Robert La Fosse, Ron Howell, Rodney Griffin, Giuseppe Carbone, Gray Veredon, Ali Pourfarrokh, Igal Perry, and many more.
Bjørneboe has performed internationally on prestigious stages such as the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Joyce Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and at numerous festivals and venues worldwide, from New York to Tokyo, Italy, Tanzania, and France.
In addition to his performing career, he has been an active educator at several distinguished educational institutions. He has taught at institutions including the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the University of Stavanger, and Turku Arts Academy. He has also conducted teaching assignments at Bårdar Academy in Oslo, TASUBA College of Arts in Bagamoyo, Makerere University in Kampala, and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. Furthermore, he has given lecture demonstrations for school students throughout the New York City area.
Bjørneboe is also an experienced choreographer with several commissioned works for both educational institutions and professional dancers. His choreographies have been performed on stages in the USA, France, Uganda, Tanzania, and Norway.