{"id":127028,"date":"2025-05-01T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/we-have-a-problem-that-is-not-easy-to-solve-culture\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:22:41","slug":"we-have-a-problem-that-is-not-easy-to-solve-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/we-have-a-problem-that-is-not-easy-to-solve-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"– We have a problem that is not easy to solve – culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– I was bullied for dancing. I got throws through the entire primary and secondary school, says Joakim Visnes. As a 15-year-old, he joined the school in Hokksund and went his own way. Joakim Visnes (20) Today he is one of the very few who has come through the needle eye. In 2024 he got a job in the National Ballet and lives by what gives him the most joy in life. – I really refused to start dancing. I did football and turn, he admits to news, and thank her sister for wondering him on a dance time. – I thought dance was for girls. I too. Photo: Heather \u00d8rbeck Eliassen \/ news Get boys dancing in Norway there are few boys dancing at a young age. This is a problem, says the major dance institutions, B\u00e5rdar Academy and the Oslo Academy of the Arts (KHiO). – It can be tough to be the only boy in a class of only girls, says ballet manager Ingrid Lorentzen at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet. Ingrid Lorentzen at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet. Photo: Agnete Brun – We want to claim that there is a problem, but unfortunately it is a problem that is not so easy to solve, says Dean of Khio Department at KHiO, Snelle Ingrid Hall. And further points out that Norwegians are not the most dancing people in general. – You also notice when dancing is mentioned – that it is often linked to the fact that dance is small, embarrassing, and that you “have to” be full. For many, social dance is not part of the culture in the same way as, for example, outdoor life and sports, she adds. Snelle Ingrid Hall, dean of the dance line at KHiO. Photo: KHiO Dean of KHiO says they work with recruiting environments and try to work politically. For example, dance has a fairly weak position into primary school. – It’s about challenging prejudice and stereotypes around dance, she adds. At KHiO they have a male ballet student from Ukraine. In Eastern Europe there is a completely different culture. – There are prejudices related to dance absent. In Norway, we see that the social context has a lot to say. Many people may find that dancing in a booth as peculiar or feminine, or that they miss a larger community with boys. It can be demanding to stand in even if the dance interest is there. Photo: Heather \u00d8rbeck Eliassen \/ news Furthermore, she says that they have just included new students for the fall studies. Last year, 66 out of 457 applicants for the department were men. The only boys on the dance line The boys Petter and Nikolai Kleven Nilsen also go towards Str\u00f8mmen. They got the dance in with a teaspoon when their mother started a dance studio in B\u00e6rum. The 17-year-olds, who attend the dance line at Treider high school in Oslo, are the only boys in the class. But since they are two, they have always had each other in the face of the slang marks. Nikolai and Petter Kleven Nilsen (17) – I do not understand that people should go down to dance. They have to see how much we enjoy, says Petter Kleven Nilsen (17). “Are you gay, or?”, “Why do you dance when you can play football?” They are constantly hearing. – You really just have to laugh at it. But it’s a shame that some people think like that, says Nikolai. – But I think the prejudices are about not knowing what dance can actually be. It seems that they just have a way of watching dance; That dance is something girls do in their spare time and that it is just about moving on the buttocks and hips, he adds. Petter and Nikolai with Jump Crew. Photo: Julia Marie Naglestad \/ news gets to experience big moments This spring, Petter and Nikolai are relevant with a number of big shows. They have danced in “Star Fight” on TV this spring. Recently, they continued in the English talent competition Britain’s Got Talent (BGT), where they boasted from Simon Cowell himself, along with the rest of their dance crew “Jump Crew”. – Standing on stage in BGT was absolutely sick. All the people sitting in the hall, the judges, it was completely indescribable. Ever since we were little we have looked at Britain’s Got Talent on YouTube and now it was suddenly our turn. It was completely surreal. Going from there is an experience we will never forget, says Petter and Nikolai. See Jump Crew’s participation in Britain’s Got Talent here. Photo: Kjetil Solh\u00f8i \/ news Dans has higher status outside Norway Photo: Oda Elise Svelstad \/ news Photo: Oda Elise Svelstad \/ news Photo: Oda Elise Svelstad \/ news B\u00e5rdar Academy at Kristiania vocational school educates dancers in everything from jazz dance and modern dance to classic dance and ballet. They say that under 5 percent of their students are boys. This is what they are too low. Educator Marek Jez, who works at B\u00e5rdar, was born in Gdansk, Poland and is educated at the state ballet school in Gdansk, and at the Swedish Balet School in Stockholm. Abroad, the ballet has much higher status. Boel Christensen-Scheel and Marek Jez at B\u00e5rdar Dance Institute. Photo: Heather \u00d8rbeck Eliassen \/ news – The actual dance tradition in Norway is very small. Boys do not associate dance with leisure activities, as they were not raised with dance around them. They haven’t seen their father or uncle do so. Football is for boys and dance is for girls – that’s what applies in Norway, he says. Marek says that when, as a ballet dancer in Norway, he was asked what he was working on, people replied: “Dance is fun, but what are you living from?” In Norway, parents themselves must seek out dance actively instead of something that is common to everyone. – It is related to traditions, adds Marek Jez. news has been in contact with the Ministry of Education to hear if they have any comments on whether dance should be given a bigger place in primary school in Norway. And whether steps must be taken to change the attitudes people have to dance. The Ministry says they have no comment on this. Photo: Heather \u00d8rbeck Eliassen \/ news smooths into the ballet at the ballet school, Norway’s leading school for basic education in classical ballet for children, is 16 of a total of 132 pupils boys as of today. – This is not an issue we have seen, but if the recruitment is lower, a consequence may be that many people choose to continue their education abroad, where the number of boys is higher because you are in larger classes, says Lorentzen. But in the main company of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, where Joakim Visnes works, the gender balance is the way they want it. – We have not seen any fall in the recruitment of the company, but then we also recruit from all over the world, says Lorentzen. Photo: Heather \u00d8rbeck Eliassen \/ news does not regret ballet dancer Joakim Visnes first began on a freestyle dance before switching to ballet at the age of 15. At a young age, Visnes went abroad a lot to compete, especially England and Scotland. There, the environment was completely different, and there were many more boys. – There was no prejudice, and lots of boys in the competitions. And if you look at ballet schools around the world, there are big boys classes in other countries, he points out. By comparison, he was the only ballet dancer in Hokksund. He commuted to Oslo for many years. Instead of taking high school, he quit school and started training full time. The 20-year-old trained at the Norwegian Ballet School & Academy under the Russian educators Vladimir SYCHEV and LIUDMILA SYCHVA. Photo: Heather \u00d8rbeck Eliassen \/ news Although he still receives patronizing comments, he will not give himself to share his story and inspire others. – I also received messages from boys who have started dancing because of me. It is the best feedback you can get. – Follow the dream. It’s fun. And you get incredibly well trained by it, says Joakim in conclusion. Hello! Thank you so much for reading the case! Are you thinking about something? Do you have anything on my heart that I should write about in the field of cultural and entertainment? I am very happy for an email.
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