Tone Pernille Østern

Tone Pernille Østern has a Dr. of Arts in Dance with a focus on dance and disability from the Theatre Academy (now University of the Arts Helsinki). She is Professor in Arts Education at the Department for Teacher Education, NTNU Norwegian University for Science and Technology, and Visiting Professor in Dance Education at Stockholm University of the Arts . She is active as artist/researcher/teacher with a special interest in inclusive and critical pedagogies, participatory arts, choreographic processes, and the performativity of research, learning and teaching. She co-authored Artist – an available profession? A research project about artists with disabilities in Norway (2023) commissioned by Arts and Culture Norway and initated the research group How to do things with disabilities.