Biography
Margarita Vikander has an extensive international background from three countries both as a
scholar and a professor. She holds Ph.D. in Psychology of Artistic Presentation from Russia,
and has just returned to Norway from Canada where she taught Choreography, Dance Theory
and Dance Performance at Brock University in St.Catharines (Ontario). Her main research
interests lie in the areas of Dance Psychology, Cross-Cultural Dance Studies and Dance
Curriculum. At present she works as a dance pedagogue and choreographer at Levanger
School of Fine and Performing Arts (Norway).
Academic accomplishments: Margarita Vikander received her Ph.D. in 1984 at the Leningrad
University (Russia). The topic of her Doctoral dissertation was “Psychological Aspects of the
Individual Performing Style”. Since than she published over 55 research papers, mainly in the
areas of Psychology and Cross-Cultural Studies, and participated in more than 30 National
and International conferences and congresses. For more than 20 years she taught at the
universities in Russia and Canada, holding positions both of Assistant and Associate
Professor. Dr. Vikander is often invited as a guest lecturer by the universities in Europe, and
in the last few years she shared results of her research and artistic work with colleagues and
students in Sweden, Norway, Great Britain, Germany, Russia and Iceland, as well as Canada.
Artistic accomplishments: Dr. Vikander is the choreographer of more than 100 dance pieces
in the genres of jazz, classical and contemporary ballet. Among her major choreographies
there could be mentioned one-act ballets “Captured by Tchaikovsky” (2003), “Four Seasons”
(2002, to the music of A.Vivaldi), “Peer Gynt” (2000, to the music of E.Grieg) and
children’s ballet “Peter and the Wolf” (2002, to the music of S.Prokofjev), as well as
musicals “Sircus Rabalder” (2000), “In the Dreamland” (2001), “Tor og Loke hos Jutnene”
(2001),“Snow Quinn” (2002, an outdoor winter night show), “Oliver”(2003), and
“Lussinatta”(1997-2003, 2006). “Captured by Tchaikovsky” and “Four Seasons” were
performed both nationally and internationally. In 1997 Dr. Vikander was invited as a
choreographer for the international milti-art project “Labyrinths”, which took place in
Norway, and in 2003 she choreographed the Closing Concert of the Nordic Performing Arts
Festival on Iceland.