This website is a collaboration between Irem Eliassen and Studio ALFA Design (STUDIO ANTZÉE). We hope it will contribute to a wider understanding of how musicians' pain and injuries influence their work and life.
IREM ELIASSEN
Physiotherapist Irem Eliassen recently finished her Performing Arts Medicine Masters degree at University College London. She is the founder of Scenekunstklinikken — a clinic for Performing Arts Medicine — in Bergen, Norway. Scenekunstklinikken works among others with Bergen Symphony Orchestra.
Studio ALFA Design
This website and visualisations were designed and built by Amelia Lina Frances Antzée (formerly Trud Fagerheim Antzée), data designer at Studio ALFA Design. Amelia is a classically trained pianist who worked many years as a piano teacher and freelance musician before doing a career pivot into programming and data design. She specialises in creative data visualisation and data storytelling.
Both Irem and Amelia have been active Argentine social tango dancers for many years. Irem also is a tango instructor + was a UK Tango Championship finalist, and Amelia does tango event DJing + authors TANGO NOTES, a website about traditional Argentine tango music.