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Dancers, dance students, and dance teachers are involved in a lifestyle and career, often leading to pressures resulting in physical and mental problems.
Professional dancers working in physically and emotionally demanding environments need support and guide dance through the range of components of Dancer Wellness to develop better mental and physical strategies for resolving their problems.
As a former dancer, who became a physiotherapist, I believe I can help dancers set goals to make specific changes. I can offer them treatment based on a holistic approach with an understanding of their particular needs.

About Ewa Sivertsen

About Ewa Sivertsen, Dance- Specific Physiotherapist.

I have been a certified physiotherapist since 2013. I'm a Registered Member of the Norwegian Registration Authority for Health Personnel and abide by their code for ethical practice.

As a girl, I used to explore dancing on my own, and I started to take ballet classes quite late, at the age of 15 in Szczecin/Poland. At 19, I joined the Capitol Ballet School in Wroclaw/Poland. After three years, I moved to Norway to study dance teaching at the Norwegian Academy of Dance and the University of Stavanger.

During my dance and teaching studies, I obtained my performance experience at the Rogaland Theatre and was a dance teacher at several local schools of culture & dance. Because of my own experience with dancing, ballet, performing, and teaching, I can bring a genuine understanding of the unique demands placed on dancers into my physiotherapy practice.

I specialize in the field of Sports Physiotherapy, Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy, and Dance-and Movement Therapy. I am qualified to support and treat physical problems rooted in psychological conflicts.
My holistic approach to the dancer's life, with a particular focus on mental health, makes it possible to create a new dialog with a patient to bring about new ways of thinking and behaving.

Training, Qualifications & Experience
- Master's degree in sports physiotherapy at the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences (NIH), Oslo (2019-2021).
- Master thesis (2021): "Injury and illness in pre-professional and professional, ballet and modern dancers. An overview." The publication is available in Norwegian at: https://nih.brage.unit.no/nih-xmlui/handle/11250/2773681
- Clinical practice at the Norwegian Institute of Sports Medicine (NIMI), Oslo (2020)
- Private Physiotherapist for dance students from the Norwegian Opera Ballet School, Oslo (2020-2021).
- Bachelor's degree in physical therapy (2008-2011) followed by mandatory practice (2012-2013), the Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo
- Certificate in Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo)
- Diploma in Dance-and Movement Therapy (University of South-Eastern Norway, Drammen)
- Diploma in 1 year of Bachelor's degree in Dance and Pedagogy at the Norwegian Academy of Dance, Oslo
- Diploma in 1 year of Bachelor's degree in Dance Teaching at the University of Stavanger
- Foundations and Progressions of Classical Ballet, RAD Dance Course at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Oslo
- Level 1 Dance Teacher Training (18 hours), Lisa Howell Physiotherapy, Trondheim, Norway
- Progressing Ballet Technique Teacher Course at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Oslo
- Physiotherapist at the Skien Physical Department, Skien, Norway
- Physiotherapist at the Birkelunden Physical Department, Oslo, Norway
- Physiotherapist at the Basic Training Centre & Physiotherapy, Oslo, Norway
- Founder & CEO of the Authentic Ballet Physiotherapy & Mental Health for Dancers (2018-2021)
- Special Physiotherapist at the Telemark Hospital in Porsgrunn & Skien/Norway, psychiatric section
- Physiotherapist at the Lovisenberg Hospital, medical, orthopedic/surgery and psychiatric section, Oslo, Norway
- Guest lecturer in injury prevention & mental health care for dancers at the Skien High School and the Thor Heyerdahl High School, Norway
- Leader of local groups of therapeutic dance, movement, and fitness, Oslo & the area of Skien, Norway
- Healthcare practitioner for dancers at the NORA dance community in Telemark & Vestfold/Norway

I Have Experience With the following areas of the Physiotherapy & Mental Health Care field.
For adolescents, adults, professionals, individuals, and groups
ACUTE INJURY
ANXIETY
ART & PERFORMANCE PHYSIOTHERAPY
ATHLETS HEALTH
BALANCE TRAINING
BREATHING
COGNITIVE THERAPY
DANCE FOR HEALTH
DEPRESSION
DANCE REHABILITATION
EATING DISORDERS
INJURY PREVENTION
LONG TERM INJURY
LOW SELF-CONFIDENCE
LOW SELF-ESTEEM
MEDI YOGA
MOTIVATION
MINDFULNESS
NOURISHMENT
PAIN
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
PILATES
RELAXATION
SELF-HARM
SPORTS INJURIES
STRESS
TRAUMA
WORK-RELATED STRESS
WELLNESS

Therapies offered
ART & PERFORMANCE PHYSIOTHERAPY
PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR DANCERS, DANCE STUDENTS, DANCE TEACHERS
DANCE REHABILITATION AND INJURY PREVENTION
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR DANCERS
SPORTS PHYSIOTHERAPY
FITNESS & WELLNESS classes for dancers
NORWEGIAN PSYCHOMOTOR PHYSIOTHERAPY INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
DANCE- AND MOVEMENT THERAPY INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS
BASIC COGNITIVE THERAPY TOOLS
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEW

My services

Authentic Ballet provides services for the health of dancers, dance students, and dance teachers. I offer consultations One-On-One and on Zoom. These I can arrange weekly or monthly as required. All the consultations last 60 min. or 30 min.

ONE-ON-ONE Consultation:

One-On-One consultation is available in the area of Oslo/Skien/Vestfold & Telemark/Norway. Individual or for smaller groups.

Consultations on Zoom:

The consultations are offered for the rest of Norway and worldwide. As required, I can provide these consultations individually or in a smaller group from a studio or an office.

Workshops/talks and lectures

I offer tailored-made workshops for dance schools and companies.

Examples of my workshops and lectures (90 min):
1. Dancer Wellness Plan. What this is and how to begin—target audience: professional dancers, dance students, dance teachers.

2. What is Dance and Movement Therapy?
How to use dance and movement as a self-care tool?
Target audience: professional dancers, dance students, dance teachers.

3. Body & Mind movement group as relaxation and body-awareness approach. Target audience: professional dance company members, dance teacher teams, dance students team.

4. Mental health care for dancers. Common challenges, prevention, treatment, and self-care. Target audience: professional dancers, dance students, dance teachers.

I am a guest lecturer at the Skien videregående skole (Skien high school in Skien/Norway) and Thor Heyerdahl videregående skole (Thor Heyerdahl videregående skole in Larvik/Norway).