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Amelia Eisen is originally from Nevada City, California and works internationally between Reykjavik, Germany & California as a Freelance Dance Artist and Integrative Movement & Health Coach. She trained with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in San Francisco, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City.
She believes dance is a powerful art form which contributes to a more conscious and caring humanity. Her work helps people connect more deeply with their inner and outer ecologies.
Her background in Holistic Health emphasizes the connection between mind, body, and spirit, and how individuals interact with their environments.
Throughout the last 10 years, she‘s presented her choreographic work in San Francisco, Israel, Germany and Iceland. 
As a dancer, she has worked with choreographers and companies including Leonardo Rodrigues Santos, Catherin Guerin, Michael Bronczkowski, Pascal Sangl, Kirill Berezovski, Miriam Markl, 5elefants tanzkollektiv, Crystal Schüttler, Green Flamingo Project, Richard Oberscheven, Taulant Shehu, Luis Sayago, ZiRu Dance Company, Kinetech Arts and Project Agora. 
Since 2023, she has had multiple artist residencies at SÍM Residency and Dansverkstædid.
She has been teaching contemporary, ballet, improvisation and creative movement exploration to people between the ages of 3 and 95 at places such as Eintanz Haus Mannheim, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main Frankfurt, Tanznetz Freiburg, Dansverkstædid, FWD Youth Company, Valkyrja Danslistarskóli, Bodies of Empowerment in San Francisco, and Nevada Union High School. Amelia also facilitates the Embodied Transitionsprogram—a support system for dance artists entering into the professional world.

Asako studied ballet in Japan where she grew up. From there she went to the United States where she completed her B.F.A. degree in artistic dance in 1991 from Shenandoah University in Virginia. After completing her studies, she danced with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in Ohio, USA. 

Asako moved to Iceland in 1993 and founded a Ballet School in Akureyri, which she ran for about seven years. She has also taught piano at the Eyjafjörður Music School. 

After she moved to the capital region, she has taught dance at Listdansskóli Íslands, Hafnarfjörður and Óskandi Dance School, and music and movement at Fögrubrekku Preschool in Kópavogur. 

In the spring of 2008, she completed her teaching qualification course at the Iceland Teachers College and has a high school teacher's qualification in dance. In the spring of 2021, she completed her master's degree in art education at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Auður is a dance teacher and choreographer by training. She started dance studies at a young age in classical ballet and jazz ballet. She moved to Iceland in 2002 and began studying dance at Klassíski listdansskólinn and completed the advanced course in contemporary dance in 2009. From there she went on to B.F.A. studies in choreography at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and later she completed her M.Art.Ed. degree in performing arts teaching at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Auður has led various independent projects both in Iceland and abroad. Among other things she managed a youth exchange sponsored by Erasmus+ for students at Klassíski listdansskólinn, where they went to Portugal and made a performance in collaboration with a music school there. Auður loves dance in all its forms and has also practiced acrobatics, pole dancing and hip hop in recent years.

Ása María graduated from the Institute of the Arts Barcelona in 2023 with a BA in Dance. She then moved to Budapest to continue her studies in performing arts and dance at Sub.Lab.Pro, where she gained experience across a wide range of performance disciplines. During her time there, she worked with choreographers including Barnaby Booth (UK), Jenna Jalonen (FI), and others.

After a year in Budapest, Ása María returned to Iceland, where she has been involved in a variety of projects, including a music video for PBT and performances for Iceland's national television song contest (Söngvakeppnin). Most recently, she has been performing in projects with Uppklapp.

Alongside her work as a dance teacher, Ása María is the co-founder of Movement Database Iceland, an online platform dedicated to the Icelandic dance community. She is also an enthusiastic videographer and regularly creates dance films and movement-based video projects.

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Bjartey is a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher. She began training in ballet and contemporary dance at the Klassíski Listdansskólinn at the age of four. After graduating from the school's Advanced Program, she was cast as a dancer in the musical Fjarskaland at the National Theatre of Iceland. She also performed with FWD Youth Company, where she collaborated with a range of choreographers.

Bjartey went on to study Contemporary Dance at the Iceland University of the Arts, graduating in 2021. Alongside her studies, she began her teaching career and has now been teaching dance for over eight years, working with children and young people of all ages.

In addition to teaching, Bjartey has built an active career as a professional dancer and choreographer in Iceland and abroad. As a performer, she has worked with the Iceland Dance Company, Ballet Axis, and the Danish dance theatre company The Nordic Beasts. She is currently performing in the musical Cabaret at the National Theatre Cellar Stage in Reykjavík.

As a choreographer, Bjartey creates her own original works while also choreographing for productions by other artists. Together with Anna Guðrún Tómasdóttir, she co-created VENUS, which has been presented at various venues in Reykjavík, including Ásmundarsalur, with plans to tour the work internationally. She has also choreographed movement for five opera productions with the performing arts collective Óður and the Icelandic Chamber Opera, and has created choreography for music videos by GDRN and Róshildur.

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Diljá began her ballet training at the age of three at Sigríður Ármann's Ballet School. She graduated from the Advanced Program at Klassíski Listdansskólinn in 2022 and went on to dance with FWD Youth Company for three years.

Diljá joined Dansgarðurinn – Óskandi as a teacher in 2023, where she has taught ballet, contemporary dance, and creative dance in the Preschool and Foundation Programs. She also works as a homeroom teacher at Landakot School, where she teaches Creative Dance and Icelandic.

Diljá is passionate about working with children, especially through creative approaches that allow each child to express themselves and shine. She holds a Master's degree in Editing and Publishing as well as a teaching qualification from the University of Iceland.

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Erna is a professional ballet dancer who graduated from Listdansskóli Íslands' Classical Ballet Program in 2018 and has been working professionally in the United Kingdom since 2019. Alongside her studies, she trained during the summers at Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, the Royal Danish Ballet School, Dresden, and the San Francisco Ballet School.

Throughout her career, Erna has performed internationally, appearing in productions across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, and the Maldives. In 2025, she danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet, performing in Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Les Sylphides.

Prior to that, she worked on short-term contracts with English National Ballet, performing at the Royal Albert Hall in Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella in the summer of 2023, followed by Derek Deane's Swan Lake in 2024. The production of Swan Lake was filmed by the BBC and screened in cinemas worldwide.

Erna is also a dancer with Ballet Axis, a neoclassical ballet company based in Iceland. She performed in and co-choreographed sections of Pointe of Axis, a production that received the 2026 Icelandic Performing Arts Awards (Gríman) for Choreographer of the Year.

Erna began her professional career with Ballet Theatre UK, where she performed soloist and principal roles in productions including The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Romeo & Juliet, The Snow Queen, and Giselle. She has also performed as a soloist with Cork City Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, and with Kings International Ballet in The Nutcracker and Giselle during the 2024 and 2026 seasons. In addition, she has performed with Mergaliyev Classical Ballet in Swan Lake.

Alongside her work with ballet companies, Erna has collaborated on a variety of independent projects with artists including Kanye West, Sigur Rós, and Of Monsters and Men. Between her international contracts, she regularly returns to Iceland to teach dance.

Hrefna is a professional ballet dancer working primarily in the United Kingdom and Iceland. She began her dance training in the United States before graduating from Listdansskóli Íslands in 2018. During her studies, she spent her summers training at the San Francisco Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, and the Royal Danish Ballet School.

After graduating from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 2019, Hrefna joined Ballet Theatre UK, where she toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2024. She performed as a corps de ballet member, soloist, and principal dancer in productions including Romeo & Juliet, Giselle, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, and The Snow Queen.

In 2025, Hrefna joined Birmingham Royal Ballet, performing in Cinderella, Les Sylphides, and The Sleeping Beauty. During her contract, she toured with the company throughout the United Kingdom and major cities across Japan.

Hrefna has also worked with English National Ballet over two summer seasons (2023 and 2024), performing at the Royal Albert Hall in Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella and Derek Deane's Swan Lake. The production of Swan Lake was filmed by the BBC and screened in cinemas worldwide.

She is also a dancer with Ballet Axis, a neoclassical ballet company based in Iceland. Hrefna was one of the choreographers behind Pointe of Axis, Ballet Axis's production that received the 2026 Icelandic Performing Arts Awards (Gríman) for Choreographer of the Year.

In addition to her company work, Hrefna has performed in a variety of independent projects, dancing with Cork City Ballet (The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake), Kings International Ballet (The Nutcracker, Giselle), and in productions in the Maldives for artists including Kanye West. She has also collaborated with the Icelandic bands Of Monsters and Men and Sigur Rós on a range of artistic projects.

In 2023, Hrefna became a certified Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) instructor.

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Inga María teaches Contemporary Dance at Óskandi. She also works as a dancer, choreographer, and flight attendant. Inga began training in ballet at the age of four and graduated from both Klassíski Listdansskólinn and Listdansskóli Íslands. Alongside her dance studies, she performed in the National Theatre of Iceland's production of Billy Elliot from 2014 to 2016.

In 2022, Inga graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance from the Iceland University of the Arts, including an exchange semester at the Norwegian Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in Oslo. Since graduating, she has continued to expand her artistic practice both in Iceland and internationally. Her professional development includes an internship with the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, participation in workshops with Hofesh Shechter and the Fighting Monkey Intensive, and being selected for a workshop with James Wilton in the United Kingdom.

Inga also performed in Congratulations on Being Human, choreographed by Sigríður Soffía Níelsdóttir, which toured the National Theatre of Iceland, Tjarnarbíó, Menningarfélag Akureyrar, and the Icelandic Embassy in Oslo.

Alongside her stage work, Inga has participated in a wide range of creative projects, including music videos, Iceland's national television song contest (Söngvakeppnin), and commercial productions. She has also created and presented her own choreographic works, both independently and in collaboration with other artists.

Kirill Berezovski (born in Odessa, Ukraine) is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher who grew up in Freiburg, Germany. He completed his training in stage dance and choreography in Mannheim in 2015 and continued his artistic development through studies at the Alvin Ailey School and Broadway Dance Center in New York, workshops with Hofesh Shechter Company, Emanuel Gat Dance, and Johannes Wieland, and a six-month residency with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel.

As a performer, he has collaborated internationally with choreographers and companies including Yasmeen Godder Company, Go plastic company, Magdalena Weniger, Edan Gorlicki, Ashley Wright, Carla Jordao, Barış Karademir, MIRA Dance Company, Richard Oberscheven, Eric Trottier, and Max Levy. Since 2017, his choreographic works have been presented nationally and internationally, including My Hungry Heart for Fullstop Dance Company (San Francisco) and Of Dreams to Come, presented at Tanzfest Freiburg, Tanz-Kulturdialog, and Tanz! Heilbronn.

Alongside his choreographic work, Kirill works as a rehearsal director, choreographic assistant, teacher, and facilitator, collaborating with institutions including Iceland Dance Company, Volkstheater Rostock, Tanz Luzern, K3 – Kampnagel Hamburg, Bad Lemons Munich, Tanznetz Freiburg, Tanzhaus Zürich, Tanzbüro Basel, and Bodies of Empowerment (San Francisco).

His work is characterized by a strong physicality and musical sensitivity, balancing structure with instinct and precision with rawness to create movement that connects body, rhythm, and emotion.

Sara Katrín was born and raised in Reykjavík and started ballet with Edda Scheving when she was 5 years old. Later she moved to gymnastics and trained with the gymnastics club Gerpla for a few years. As a teenager, she returned to ballet at Klassíski listdansskólinn and graduated from there in 2011 with a modern degree. Sara Katrín teaches 3 to 7 year old children ballet and contemporary dance at Klassíski listdansskólinn and has been doing so since 2014. She also taught contemporary dance in kindergartens in 2018 through Dansgarðurinn. In 2015, she worked for Hreyfing for 2 years as a group class teacher, teaching group classes from Zumba to strength and endurance classes. At the same time, she also acquired Zumba and Zumba-kids rights. In 2017, she completed a B.Sc degree in sports science from Reykjavík University and now works as a sports and health scientist in Heilsuborg. In addition, Sara Katrín practices Crossfit and long-distance running and aims to run Laugavegur 2019 (super marathon - 55 km) for the second year in a row as well as aiming for a final exam in piano at the first opportunity.

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Teresa began her ballet training at the age of four. She completed both the Foundation and Advanced Programs at Klassíski Listdansskólinn. Since 2019, she has been teaching in the Preschool Program, where she enjoys sharing the joy of dance with the school's youngest students.

What Teresa enjoys most about teaching is watching her students grow in confidence and discover the joy of movement through dance. She is passionate about creating a positive and encouraging learning environment where every student has the opportunity to thrive.

Alongside her work in dance, Teresa completed a BSc in Biotechnology in 2026 and also works as a biotechnologist.

Þorbjörg started practising ballet at Sigríður Ármann's ballet school. She then went to Listdansskóli Íslands, where she stayed for seven years and graduated from the elementary school department in 2018. She was then offered a three-year program at the San Francisco Ballet School. She has attended various summer courses throughout her life, such as in Paris, London, England and the United States.