Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
Dance artist Brynjar Åbel Bandlien is part of our program: AVGANG/DEPONI.
Bandlien is currently Associate Professor of Dance at the Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Stavanger, where he is leading the artistic development project All Tomorrow's Parties: post-pandemic dancing about how HIV and AIDS affected the Norwegian dance scene in the 80s and 90s.
Brynjar Åbel Bandlien (1975) is a classically trained dance artist from Statens Balletthøgskole, now KHiO (1991-1993) and from Hamburgische Staatsoper (1993-1995.) Bandlien then worked for three years as a dancer at Nederlands Dans Teater 2 in Den Haag, Holland, with which he toured Europe, USA and South Africa. In 1998 he started working as a freelance contemporary dancer in Scandinavia, Europe and the USA. Bandlien has worked with artists such as Philipp Gehmacher, Manuel Pelmus, Jennifer Lacey, Heine Avdal, Vera Mantero, Raimund Hoghe and Antonija Livingstone. In the period 2004-2010 he co-founded Centrul National al Dansului-Bucuresti (CNDB) in Romania. He holds a PhD from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2020.