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Author: Fiona Jane Ellingsen

The author of this site is Fiona Jane Ellingsen, who grew up in Thredbo Alpine Village, Australia, but now lives in North Norway. If you would like to contribute to the site, you are welcome to contact the author.
Narvik kulturskole

Tante Grønn, Tante Brunn og Tante Fiolett (2005)

22 Apr 201915 May 2022
Further information about this ballet will be added. Tante Grønn, Tante Brun og Tante Fiolett 16th February 2005, Folkets Hus, Narvik Program Kalle og Tante Grønn Kalle og Tante Grønn…
Narvik kulturskole

Stjerner på Plakaten – A Chorus Line (2003)

22 Apr 201928 Aug 2019
Further information about this ballet will be added. Note that it is not permissible to copy this article and publish it on any other websites, public publications, exhibitions, educational documents,…
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Peter and the Wolf (2004)

22 Apr 201915 Jan 2026
Further information about this ballet will be added. From the left: Marie Solveig Michaelsen (bird), Heidi Ruud Ellingsen (cat), Grethe Brækkan (Meadow), Marit Voje (Duckling) and Anna Mohn Sneve (Peter)…
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Balletten 2000 trinn

22 Apr 201924 Jan 2026
Further information about this ballet will be added. Balletten 2000 trinn, 14th March 2000, Folkets Hus, Narvik Program Note that it is not permissible to copy this article and publish…
Kirsten Lian née Foshaug

Kirsten Lians Ballet school 1982-1993

20 Apr 201929 Aug 2019
Kirsten Lian (1942- ) ran her ballet school from 1982 until 1993. Starting in 1983, Lian’s students danced in the yearly Operetteaftener (operetta evenings) and the yearly VU Presseshow (Winter…
Henry Haagensen

Haagensen’s teaching Style

18 Apr 201928 Aug 2019
As a dance teacher, Henry is remembered as authoritarian. Organising and teaching a large number of students would have been a challenge when then, as now, a district ballett teacher…
Narvik kulturskole

Founding of a community music school

15 Apr 20197 Mar 2023
Narvik Kommunale Musikkskole Private music schools existed in the mid 1900’s however the first step in the founding a community music school was taken in 1952 when Narvik council employed…
Narvik kulturskole

40th Anniversary Concert (1993)

14 Apr 201928 Aug 2019
La skogen leve La Skogen Leve (Let the Forest Live) marked Narvik musikkskolens 40th Anniversary and was in collaboration with; music, vocal, dance and drama students; some parents; the school’s…
Henry Haagensen

Ska vi dains for dæ?

13 Apr 201920 Apr 2020
A performance for Harstad’s 75th Anniversary Harstad Cinema, Harstad Sunday 18th June 1978 Performed as a part of Children’s Festival (Barnas Festspill) Scenography and props: Henry Haagensen                               Sound: Steingrim…
Henry Haagensen

Henry Haagensens Ballettskole 1957-1981

31 Mar 201930 Jan 2026
Disappointed with Oslo, Henry Haagensen returned to Narvik late 1957, this time for good. He worked for a short time in an advertising agency, however decided that his talents lay…
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Films

30 Mar 201915 Jan 2026
Vinterfestuka i Narvik 1969 Primarily about Sverre Cornelius Lunds Ochester, Folkets hus, Narvik during VU1969. Includes many other entertaining numbers such as Klarinettpolka (Clarinet Polka) with choreography by Henry Haagensen.…
Henry Haagensen

Return to Oslo 1955 – 1957

30 Mar 201915 Jan 2026
In the three years Haagensen had been away, the dance scene that met him in Oslo had gone from a small group of pioneers to a rapidly expanding, nationally funded,…
Henry Haagensen

Haagensen and Narvik Vel’s Teaterlag 1951 – 1955

29 Mar 20192 Oct 2019
It has been said before that man cannot live on bread alone, and a life without entertainment is very grey. Entertainment doesn’t just arrive over the horizon with the cavalry,…
Henry Haagensen

Henry Haagensens Ballettskole 1951-1954

29 Mar 20191 Mar 2023
The establishment of Henry Haagensen’s ballet school in 1951 marked the beginning of a golden age for dance instruction in Narvik. Aud Ljunggren in her oral history, believed that Henry’s…
Henry Haagensen

Overseas tours – Ny Norsk Ballett

28 Mar 201912 Sep 2019
Through Louise Browne’s husband’s contacts in Yorkshire, England, the Ny Norsk Ballett was invited to perform from the 12th to the 17th September, 1949, at the Doncaster Arts Centre, England.…
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Catfish Row (Porgy and Bess)(1992)

28 Mar 201928 Mar 2019
Dag Åsbjørn Johansen set up Catfish Row as a freelancer at Folkets Hus, in 1992. Scenography: Gudmund Gulljord / Anne Guri Nedberg Instruction: Marita Havaas Olsen / Tor Arne Ramstad…

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