SKISSER I BEVEGELSE
Skisser i bevegelse – a platform for dance, embodied practice and exchange.
Skisser i bevegelse- SIB
"Sketches of movement"
Our artistic practice
SIB’s work is grounded in dance practice and a sustained inquiry into the physical body. In the studio, we work closely with movement itself: exploring how movement travels through the body, tracing and refining pathways and connections, and using improvisation to test, unsettle and develop movement material.
Rather than treating each edition as a standalone event, SIB Dance Lab unfolds as a longer artistic trajectory. The current cycle — Power (2025), Resilience (2026) and Emotions (2027) — brings the same international guest artists back each year, allowing practices, relationships and ideas to deepen over time.
Each edition combines workshops, shared research, performance and conversation, while opening outward to Hamar through pop-up events and collaborations with local venues.
Running through this work is an ongoing question: What is dance now?
History
2009: Annette Brandanger starts SIB in her hometown of Hamar as a laboratory for movement, together with fellow Laban graduate Gyda Eide. Hilde Gullhav provided free studio space to get it started.
2013: SIB is established as an organisation.
2018–19: A collaboration to strengthen dance in Hedmark leads to the creation of DansINN, now an umbrella for local dance activity.
2025–27: SIB Dance Lab begins its first three-year artistic arc. We now practice as a leading role, investigating dance throug contemporary
Meet our Artistic Director: Annette Brandanger
Annette Brandanger is a dance practitioner working as a performer, teaching artist and choreographer, with a keen interest in interdisciplinary work between visual art, voice and movement, and in bridging education and the arts. She trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Transitions Dance Company in London, studied pedagogy at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and is currently pursuing an MA in Dance Research at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
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Meet our producer: Justina Brazaitė
Justina Brazaitė is SIB’s producer and your first point of contact. She keeps the Lab, workshops and pop-ups running behind the scenes. She is also a movement instructor with a background in contact improvisation, creative dance, contemporary dance and parkour, and has a long-standing interest in community dance and inclusion, more recently also dance for health and wellbeing.
Collaborators and sponsors
Hamar Sagbladfabrikk
AKG
Hamar Bibliotek
Hamar rådhus
Larsen kaffebar
Gravdahl Kaffe
CC
A brief history of SIB
SIB began in 2009, when dance practitioner Annette Brandanger drew on her network from her student years to create a laboratory for movement in her hometown of Hamar. Fellow Laban graduate Gyda Eide joined her, and Hilde Gullhav made it possible by providing free studio space.
The name, Skisser i bevegelse (Sketches in Movement), still describes the idea: a meeting point where dance artists can try things out, work on unfinished material and develop their practices together.
In 2013, SIB was established as an organisation by Astrid Groseth, Marte Reithaug Sterud and Annette Brandanger. In 2018, SIB joined [partners] in a collaboration to strengthen dance in Hedmark (now Innlandet), which led to the founding of DansINN in 2019. DansINN is now an umbrella for local dance activity in Innlandet. Today SIB’s main activity is the annual SIB Dance Lab each summer, alongside workshops, pop-ups and choreographic production.
Skisser i Bevegelse · Org. nr. 912 484 726
Guest artists at SIB Dance Lab since 2009
More than 35 artists and companies from 16 countries
Diego Marín (MX) · Jorge Crecis (UK/ES) · Rick Nodine (UK/US) · Scarlett Perdereau (FR/UK) · Iona Kewney (UK) · Marianne Kjærsund (NO) · Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn (NO) · Elizabeth Svarstad (NO) · Ulf Nilseng (NO) · Ingvild Marstein Olsen (NO) · Margrete Slettbø (NO) · Anders Engebretsen (NO) · Sarjo Sankareh (NO/GM) · Frida Vorgaard (NO) · Ragnhild Reinsberg (NO) · Hillevi Larsson (NO) · Embodied Practice (UK/FR) · Terje Tjøme Mossige (NO) · Hagit Yakira (IL) · Walk Lola Walk (GR) · Thomas Goodwin (UK) · BodyCartography (US/NZ) · Heloise Gold & Kristin Norderval (US/NO): Deep Body Listening · Cecilie Sleppen Ålskog (NO) · Janne Camilla Lyster (NO) · Manuel Ronda (IT) · Suzie Davis & Mattias Ekholm (UK/SE): DEED · Sua Rusten (NO/TH) · Gabby Rose (AU) · Helle Moum Levang (NO) · Karen Høybakk Mikalsen (NO) · Jesus Rubisco (UK/ES), photographer · Stella Howard (UK) · Maren Wedøe (NO) · Gull Øzger (NO) · Mirela Kolo (CH) · Annette Brandanger (NO) · Alenka Herman (UK/SI)
