Tine Salling fall semester residency

Tine Salling is an all-round street dancer, a well-experienced teacher and one of Denmark’s finest urban choreographers. She started teaching styles such as locking, popping and house dance in 2001 with a great respect for the history and techniques she has learned through studying with masters in Denmark, France and the US. Besides her training in urban dance styles, she has also studied Modern Dance History and Aestethics at the university of Copenhagen, traditional Brazilian dances and she has recently passed her yoga teacher exam.

 

In Denmark  Tine’s name has been involved in a lot of ”first mover” activities on the dance scene. First female popping crew (the Robodettes). One of the first to teach house dance in Denmark. Formed first house dance company (Haus Fraus). Choreographed for the first urban dance choreography festival with her piece ”Entre Nous”, etc.

 

Both Haus Fraus and the Robodettes had great succes in their time. On stages in France, Germany and the UK and in succesfull theatre shows in Denmark. Tine co-choreographed every show, just as she co-choregraphed award-winning show ”69 – a rock theater concert”. 

 

Tine has danced with artists such as Lucy Love, Trentemøller and Grace Jones. She’s featured in the French/Belgian movie ”J’aurais voulu être un danseur” by Alain Berliner, she performed on numerous live tv-shows and appears in music videos too.

 

For the past 5 years Tine has been one of the artistic leaders of the GPT. A project that fusions dance and parkour, and were some of the first to do it. The GPT (Gerlev Performance Team) has been on tour in Czech Republic, Lithuania, South Korea, China and Brazil. This semester Tine is taking time of from the GPT and her teaching job at Gerlev Sports Academy to teach and choreograph at the Department of Dance within the College of Arts & Sciences at the Ohio State University.