Since 2006 she has worked as a freelance dance-artist in Northern Norway where choreography and dancing has been her main objectives. This site is meant to be her CV.
Her work and mission
Vorren is a dance artist from Tromsø, currently living at Nesodden outside of Oslo. In all of the years that she has worked as a creativ artist with her own projects she has worked with how her practice as contemporary dance artist could develop and expand by combining it with other art forms. Like this she aims to shed light on themes she herself find interesting and societal. This has a.o. led to project collaborating with musicians, composers, stage comat/ stunt, new circus, capoeira and not least the development and innovation of dance together with the movement art parkour, something she is a pionéer for in Norway and Scandinavia.
As a dancer she has worked in projects and with choreographers that deal with a fusion of artistc expressions, and during the past few years she has been engaged in projects with a strong political/ socially critical thematics and profile.This is where she herself wishes to continue her research and development as an artist. She says: “As an artist we are spokes people and a mirror to the society we live in. This gives us a responsibility to shed light on those parts of our society that we see gets too little attention, that we wish to see change, that we see are unfair, to lift up those that are “weaker” or the marginalized groups of our society, both nationally and internationally. In the political climate of today it seems particularly important for us as artists to engage. We have an opportunity to be a positive influence, and as such we are obliged to make use of that opportunity.”
Education
Gerd Kaisa graduated with a Bachelor from London Contemporary Dance School in 2004 and an MA in Dance Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance in 2006. As part of her MA-training she was in Transitions Dance Company and toured both in England as well as a brief international tour.In 2018 she finished a Practical Pedagogical Education at Kunstnhøyskolen i Oslo.
Professional life
In 2006 she moved back to Tromsø in Northern-Norway to work with Annika Luschin and Wildlaks, and has since then established herself as a dancer and choreographer with Tromsø as base. From 2009-2012 she was been employed as a dancer and choreographer at Stellaris DansTeater and has since then worked as a freelancer for a.o. Katma, Hålogaland Teater, Nordland Teater, Kari Hoaas Productions, Lava-Dansproduktion, Ulv&Ugle and Den Norske Opera og Ballett . She produces own choreographic work and has productions received producer support and residencies from Dansearena nord.
In 2013 the performance “The Games We Play” premiered and is still touring. It is a collaboration with Copenhagen based parkour group Street Movement, where dance and parkour are fused for the first time in Norway.
Other engagements
Vorren is a co-founder of the parkour group Oslo Parkour and Oslo Parkour Park.
For many years she was a member of the board for Forum for nordnorske Dansekunstnere, an organization promoting and working for the dance community in Northern Norway. This included being responsible for PRODA. For many years she sat at Board of Norske Dansekunstnere, the norwegian equivalent of Equity for dancers. She was a member of the editorial staff of Norway’s only dance magazine, “På spissen”.
Photo: Jo Kyrre Skogstad, Fotopia
Gerd Kaisa Vorren 
