Jury chosen performances Bibu 2020
Eleven persons – eight in the Swedish jury and three in the international jury – with different background, age and experience, have under almost 2 years spent a lot of time to see performances and have a continuous dialogue with their jury companions. To discuss, compare, argue, and finally make a decision about a selection that now will be presented. In total 14 Swedish and four international performances are invited to the biennial in Helsingborg, Sweden in May 2020.
The Swedish selections are productions from 2018 and 2019. Both the Swedish and international jury have made an effort to consider representation in different form – target group, age, genre, geographic spread – instead a having a pre-determined theme. The concept of artistic quality has been up for discussion several times.
Down below the selection is presented and with the motivations by the jury.
The Swedish jury selection
a place
Swedish jury selection
Performance
In MELO Collective’s latest performance a place the space is shared by the audience, dancers, musicians, singers and students.
DNA - Dansa nära anhörig
Swedish jury selection
Performance
Four duets between four actors and their real mothers. It is a performance about distance, closeness, food, limitless love, sorrow, loss and renewal.
Förhör
Swedish jury selection
Performance
Sara hasn’t been to school for over a month. She is tormented by anxiety, which grows so strong that she vomits if she is trying to get anywhere near the building
Gregarious
Swedish jury selection
Performance
Two sublime circus artists. The best of friends and the biggest competitors. Fiercely they struggle to be best, fastest, strongest.
Hemligt
Swedish jury selection
Performance
A performance that aims to, together with the audience, approach the most private - the diary - and examine our innermost feelings and thoughts.
Hopp och hinder
Swedish jury selection
Performance
About discovering, mastering and living out your inner hobbyhorse. Three hobby horse riders are born in a hockey rink where the hockey sticks quickly transform into three lively horses.
Into the Roots
Swedish jury selection
Performance
Some of us left home of our own free will, while others were forced into exile. The performance portrays the nostalgia which we, for better or worse, associate with everything that comes from our roots.
Rabbinens katt
Swedish jury selection
Performance
A music and puppet show about a cat that starts talking and the consequences of it.
Riddare av tusen äventyr
Swedish jury selection
Performance
An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement.
So Sorry
Swedish jury selection
Performance
A dance collage of popular culture, packaged in pink plastic. A playful, intense collage of pop culture’s expression and dance.
Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta
Swedish jury selection
Performance
What is masculinity? Are there different types of masculinity? A stage performance in which we can follow a group of guys who try to understand themselves, each other and the world.
Tråkmånsafton
Swedish jury selection
Performance
A circus show about the most boring day of the year, the Humdrum Day.
Vilka är ni?
Swedish jury selection
Performance
Both humorous and serious. A theatrical performance for all the family. The audience encounters characters from the plant and animal kingdoms of the forest in an absurd and poetic performance.
Vill ha hund
Swedish jury selection
Performance
Playful paws, kisses from a wet nose, soft cuddly fur.
The international jury selection
Bounce!
International committee selection
Performance
Bounce! happily discusses the failure, an universal experience, an unexpected start for a new way of living.
Future Beats
International committee selection
Performance
The earliest rhythm can be perceived as ritualized everyday occurrences: Calm and attention, satisfaction and protest, hunger and fulfillment.
Listening Party
International committee selection
Performance
It's a teenage party and they cry if they want to.
The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother
International committee selection
Performance
This high-energy performance exposes the inherent narcissism that is at the centre of motherhood and how this becomes a burden to the child embarking on adulthood.