The board consists of two representatives from each Nordic country. The individual countries representatives are elected by the general assembly.
ICELAND
Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
NOfOD Chair and Islandic treasurer
Katrín works as a choreographer, dancer, researcher and teacher. She is currently an associate professor at the Iceland University of the Arts where she is the director of the BA programme in Contemporary Dance Practices. Katrín holds a BA degree in dance and choreography from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) as well as an M.Sc in Health Economics and a diploma in Financial Economics from the University of Iceland. She is Chairman of the Board of Choreographers in Iceland. As well as developing her own choreographic work, Katrín is a member of Icelandic collective Marble Crowd. Her current work explores an embodied approach to listening, the labor of the dancer and creating soft encounters through movement, sound and material.
Photo: Saga Sig
katrin.gunnars(at)gmail.com
Atli Feyr Hjaltason
Board member
Atli Freyr Hjaltason is a folklorist and ethnologist working in the field of folk dances and music.
He works with various organizations in Iceland in the field of performative folk arts, including dance, music, textiles, publication and event management. Atli Freyr has a BA degree in Folklore/Ethnology from the University of Iceland and is currently working on his Master’s degree. He teaches traditional dance and music at Þjóðdansafélag Reykjavíkur. He is a board member of Vökufélagið and ÍsFólk, reserve board member of Kvæðamannafélagið Iðunn, on the publication board of Heimilisiðnaðarfélag Íslands, committee member on Félag harmonikuunnenda í Reykjavík as well as being on the board of Nordisk förening för folkdansforskning and being a committee member in Nordlek. Atli Freyr’s work revolves around research and community work, encouraging young adults and older generations to come together through traditional dance in Iceland.
atli(at)vikivaki.org
SWEDEN
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt
NOfOD Vicechair
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, PhD in Dance from University of Roehampton, UK, is a choreographer, filmmaker and researcher. She is the current Head of the Master’s programme in Dance Education (MADE) at the Stockholm University of the Arts, and also works at Academy of Music and Drama at University of Gothenburg. Her solo performance A Particular Act of Survival received a performing arts award at Scenkonstgalan, Sweden in 2015. Ami creates screendance pieces and documentaries. She walks slowly as a ceremonial, subversive act related to her studies with Nishikawa Senrei and work with Japanese dance in Kyoto since 2000. Her research interests are practice-led and concern gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical processing of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic accounts from within the practice.
Photo: Petrin
ami.skanbergdahlstedt(at)uniarts.se
Camilla Reppen
Swedish treasurer
Camilla is assistant lecturer in dance pedagogy and project leader at Stockholm University of the Arts with a BA in Dance Pedagogy and a MA in Educational Management. During recent years she has been project leading a restructuring of the BA in Dance Pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts. Camilla is also co-founder of and works as choreographer in dance group Arkeolog 8 (SE) and program coordinator for the culture center Gula villan in Järna, Sweden. As artist/researcher/teacher she shows a particular interest in choreography as an approach to teaching, decentralized perspectives on leadership practice in artistic processes and performing arts as nature interpretation. Her current research project center around choreography as nature interpretation in theory and practice.
camilla.reppen(at)uniarts.se
NORWAY
Irene Velten Rothmund
NOfOD treasurer and Norwegian treasurer
Irene Velten Rothmund is an associate professor in dance at Kristiania University College (Høyskolen Kristiania) at the Department of Performing Arts. She holds a PhD in dance studies from Stockholm University, Department of Culture and Aesthetics (2019). She is educated as a dancer and a dance teacher from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO), and the European Dance Development Center (EDDC) in the Netherlands. She holds a MA from NTNU, the NoMAds program (2009).
irenevelten.rothmund(at)kristiania.no
Hilde Rustad
Secretary
Hilde Rustad works as professor at Kristiania University College in Oslo and teaches within dancer education at the Department of Performing Arts. She is educated dancer and choreographer at the School for New Dance Development/Amsterdam School of the Arts and did her PhD “Dance to your own music; an analysis of contact improvisation and dance improvisation as tradition, interpretation and lived experience” at the Norwegian school for sport sciences. She holds a MA from NTNU, the NoMAds program.
hilde.rustad(at)kristiania.no
DENMARK
Inger Damsholt
Danish treasurer
Inger V. Damsholt is Associate Professor, PhD, Musicology and Dance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. From 2002-2006 Damsholt was Chairman of the board of the NOFOD and as an extension of this work she contributed to the establishment of the transnational and cross-institutional Nordic MA in Dance Studies programme as well as the international research group Dance in Nordic Spaces. With the latter group she has published several volumes in English, including a special issue of Dance Research Journal entitled In and Out of Norden: Dance and the Migratory Condition (2020).
idams(at)hum.ku.dk
Sarah Pini
Media manager
Sarah Pini is Associate Professor in dance at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She works at the intersection of anthropology, dance, arts and health. Her research focuses on the human body as a socio-cultural phenomenon, investigating notions of embodiment, presence, agency, and alterity in different dance forms and cultural practices. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from Macquarie University, Sydney (2020); M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology from the University of Bologna, Italy (2012), and B.A. in Visual Arts from the University Paris 1 – Pantheon-Sorbonne, France (2009), after she trained professionally in ballet and contemporary dance across Europe, working and studying with international choreographers such as William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Carolyn Carlson; among others. https://sarahpini.com/
spini(at)health.sdu.dk
FINLAND
Tuire Colliander
Finnish treasurer
Tuire Colliander is a dancer, dance pedagogue and PhD candidate currently working on her artistic doctoral research project at the Performing Arts Centre Tutke, in Uniarts Helsinki. Her dance pedagogic background is in the context of basic dance education in Finland. She also works as a freelance dance artist and is a member of contemporary dance company Xaris Finland. In her doctoral thesis she is investigating early years dance pedagogy and focusing on questions of ethical and respectful means of encounter through dance.
Photo: Noomi Ljungdell
tuire.colliander(at)uniarts.fi
Maikki Uotila-Kraatz
Board member
Maikki Uotila-Kraatz is a Finnish-Canadian dance artist, pedagogue, 
and doctoral candidate at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. She holds an MA in dance pedagogy from Uniarts Helsinki and a BA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College, New York. Her artistic pedagogical practice focuses on working with children and youth in various settings of elementary education, daycare, and basic education for the arts, as well as teaching dance pedagogy to early childhood educators. Maikki is interested in ecosomatic approaches to children’s dance. In her doctoral research, she explores the potentials of attuning to children’s embodied experience as the basis for dance pedagogical practice.
Photo: Noora Geagea
Maikki.uotila-kraatz(at)uniarts.fi
The board consists of two representatives from each Nordic country. The individual countries representatives are elected by the general assembly.