As I promised at the end of last week below is a bit of information about my dancers. Below are the bio's for Marie, Maria and also Christina. I have a couple more to post but that won't be until tomorrow as im waiting for them to be emailed over.

I've also got some footage from today's rehearsals which im going to put up tomorrow but you can also view these on facebook at the Antique Dances group page. Im pleased to say that rehearsals are really coming along and we have set out the spacing for the first two and half minutes of the piece, only another thirteen and a half minutes to go!!

Anyway, read more about my wonderful dancers below

Marie Ronold Mathisen was born in Stavanger, Norway and started my training at the local ballet school. In 2006 I moved to the UK to train at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and graduated in July 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance. At NSCD I worked with choreographers Hagit Bar-Fleming, Andile Sotiya and Antonia Grove and danced with Balbir Sing Dance Company in 2009 as an apprentice dancer.


Christina Lysanne Robinson was born in Lancaster and began dancing at my mums dance school. I held a British Ballet Organization Jazz scholarship for several years but then found a love for Contemporary through GCSE Dance. I pursued this by beginning on the foundation course at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and continued on to gain a First Class Honours Degree. I then joined the NSCD Postgraduate Performance Company ‘Verve09’. As a dancer with Verve, I performed works by Filip Van Huffel, Glenn Wilkinson, Milan Kozanek and Leanne Pike and toured the UK and Europe. In the Summer of 2009 I trained in Israel with Batsheva Dance Company and have since moved to London and begun working with Antique Dances.


Maria Cassar put on her dancing shoes at the age of four. She studied up to Advanced2 Cecchetti Method at what now is called the Johane Casabene Dance Conservatoire, whilst also keeping up her training in jazz, contemporary and hiphop. In 2006, Maria got accepted into the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London to further her knowledge in contemporary dance and art. She has recently just graduated with a BA(Hons)Dance Theatre. Maria has worked with various established choreographers including Tom Dale, Kerry Nicholls,, Dam Van Huynh, Susan Sentler, Lizzie Kew Ross. She also toured London with two commissioned works by Laban. She has also performed two installation pieces Ok So... and Semblance choreographed by Nadine Doran- Holder Artistic Director of Tangerine Dance Company. Maria has performed in various prominent performances in Malta including; 007 The Bond Show; Dance PowerIII; Malta Arts Festival and Malta Song for Europe. She has also appeared on several local TV Shows including, Bailando and Showtime. Maria is also very interested in creating her own work. She has staged her choreography Haphazardly Centered at the Bonnie Bird Theatre. Last year she teamed up with Maltese Dance Artist Christina Camilleri to direct RedTapeDance Company. Productions so far include The Medium of Perception(2008). This was also a collaboration between British dancers; independent film maker Josef Cauchi and renowned composer Ruben Zahra. This year they were commissioned by Notte Bianca Malta to create site specific work to be performed in the streets; Excuse Me...May I?(2009).