Age on Stage Teacher Training
A Certification Programme in Charlotta Öfverholm’s Method for Working with Older Participants.
For the first time, Age on Stage launches its teacher training programme – a method developed over ten years by choreographer and performer Charlotta Öfverholm.
Can you imagine offering people a transformation in their lives that goes far beyond physical exercise? Do you want to work artistically, theatrically and humanely, using lived experience as creative material?
Age on Stage Teacher Training is an advanced programme for professional dancers, dance educators and choreographers who wish to deepen their artistic and pedagogical practice with participants aged 60+.
The Programme Provides:
- Advanced methodology for working with participants aged 60+
- Tools for improvisation, memory-based creation and stage presence
- Leadership training rooted in listening, trust and artistic integrity
- Dramaturgical tools integrating movement, text and voice
- Insight into ageing bodies and artistic practice in later life
Upon completion, participants receive certification as Age on Stage teachers and are authorised to lead workshops within the method. Certification is renewed every two years to ensure artistic quality and integrity.
About the Method
Since 2015, Age on Stage has evolved from an artistic initiative into an internationally recognised movement. Workshops for people aged 65+ have been held across Sweden and Europe and were part of the EU cooperation project ‘Dance On, Pass On, Dream On’ (2016–2023).
The method is rooted in experience, memory and life history as artistic material. It combines movement, improvisation, text and music, creating a space where both laughter and vulnerability are welcome.
Participants describe:
- Renewed vitality
- Increased self-confidence
- A strong sense of community and courage
- The experience of being seen and taken seriously as artists
- The time has come to train more leaders.
When does the Teacher Training start?
- The training consists of four modules over three sessions.
- Dates for the training in 2026 (registration opens 23rd of March 2026):
- November 20-22, 2026. Location Norrköping
- March 13-14, 2027. Location Piteå
- August 2-3, 2027. Location Stockholm.
Register here and read more about the Teacher Training at ageonstageteachertraining.com >
Charlotta Öfverholm – Biography
Charlotta Öfverholm is a Stockholm-based choreographer and performer with more than four decades of international experience in contemporary performing arts. Her artistic language moves between physical dance, spoken word and music, characterised by strong stage presence and a dynamic interplay between humour, existential depth and musicality.
As a performer, she has worked throughout Europe as well as in New York and Los Angeles with companies and choreographers including DV8 Physical Theatre, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Complexions Contemporary Ballet (Dwight Rhoden), Roberto Galván, Robert Poole, Joseph Tmim, Corinne Lanselle, Metros and Farm in the Cave, among others.
In Sweden, she performed the role of Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal at Uppsala City Theatre, directed by Benke Rydman and Hugo Hansén. She has performed in works by Björn Elisson, Dorte Olesen and Alexander Ekman (Kuckel). She is currently touring internationally with Scottish Ballet in the role of Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots.
Since 1995, Öfverholm has created more than 35 original works presented nationally and internationally. She has choreographed for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Norrdans, SPIRA and RTV, as well as opera productions including Melancholia (Royal Swedish Opera), Un Ballo in Maschera and Carmina Burana (Folkoperan). In recent years she has also worked with film in collaboration with Anders Larsson and Mia Kaasalainen, including projects connected to Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage in London.
In 2015 she founded Age on Stage, an artistic initiative challenging ageism in the dance field and redefining the ageing body as a creative force. The project developed into an international movement with productions, workshops, research and festivals focusing on age and dance. Between 2016 and 2023, Age on Stage was part of the EU cooperation project Dance On, Pass On, Dream On with eleven European partners.
Öfverholm trained at Balettakademien in Gothenburg (Lia Schubert), Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and Peridance in New York, and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles.