About the Centre

Sara Christophersen

Research Assistant

Sara Christophersen left PRIO in 2023. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Background

Sara Christophersen is a choreographer, dancer, and researcher. She has an MA in human geography from the University of Oslo (2020) and BA in dance and choreography from Laban in London (2004). Her academic and artistic interests intersect, with a particular interest in feminist methodologies, notions of solidarity and care, and collaborative processes of knowledge creation. Artistically she is interested in interdisciplinary methods, and her work is often made in negotiation with the context in which it is produced.

For the past 15 years, she has worked as an independent choreographer and dancer, taking part in and leading several collaborative projects in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Ethiopia. Her artistic practice includes performance work for theatre, public spaces and site-specific work, choreography, installations, and writing. In 2015 she was awarded together with colleague Helle Siljeholm the Hans Christian Ostrø Memorial Award for their distinctive work in Palestine and the Middle East. Her MA thesis "Embodied possibilities: A study of dance as an artistic everyday practice in Palestine" was in 2021 awarded the the anual prize for most innovative master thesis in Human Geography.

PRIO Projects

Ongoing:

Inspirational Creative Practice: The Work of Artists after War and Violent Conflict (INSPIRE)

Finished:

Events

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:00-18:00 – Resisting Occupation through Art - A Conversation with Ahmed Tobasi
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:00-18:30 – Moving Through War // Creating Art Away From Home: Hooman Sharifi - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:00-15:30 – Inspiring Myanmar: Chuu Wai - An Artist with Baggage - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:30-20:00 – Meet the Residents
Mon, 15 August 2022 – Repression - Expression // Violence - Creative Resistance
Wed, 11 May 2022 12:00-13:00 – INSPIRE Seminar Series: The Use of an Art-Based Approach in the Exploration of Trauma and Resilience
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:00-16:00 – INSPIRE Seminar Series: Research and Creation in Sites of Ethical Demand - Models of Conduct and Practice
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:00-13:00 – INSPIRE Seminar Series: reCLAIM - Digital Curatorial Practices as Ethnographic Intervention
Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:15-17:30 – Workshop: Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00-13:00 – INSPIRE Seminar Series: Protest Aesthetics in Motion
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:00-13:00 – INSPIRE Seminar Series: Guy Elhanan
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:00-13:00 – INSPIRE seminar series: On Fearless Love: Tradition, Service, and Social Change
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:00-13:00 – INSPIRE seminar series: Mother, Singer, Survivor of Liberia’s Civil War and Refugee as Community Builder
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:00-14:00 – INSPIRE: Artistic encounters in war and violent conflict

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

Publications

The following publications are specific to the PRIO CCC Centre. A more complete list is available at www.prio.org.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Christophersen, Sara (2022) Embodied Agency: Creating Room for Maneuver through Dance in Palestine, Conflict and Society 8(1): 227–241.

Master Thesis

Christophersen, Sara (2020) Embodied possibilities: A study of dance as an artistic, everyday practice in Palestine. MA thesis, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo.