Biennale programme

A Study of Losses

Through circus, contemporary magic and object manipulation, Kompani Giraff creates its own universe in A Study of Losses, playfully exploring the magnetic pull of what has been lost. Four circus performers and a col ...

Access, choice and collaboration

Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se, Estrad Norr and Oily Cart Theatre are in the beginning of a unique artistic collaboration that will run over the coming three years, with the aim to create the most accessible show pos ...

Acrobatic movement theatre workshop

Explore DynamO Théâtre's artistic approach: acrobatic movement theatre. How do you script movement in space? What are the rules? The idea is to focus on the fun of acting through various theatre-of-movement developm ...

Adventures of Harriharri — Episode III - Harold Hejazi

In Adventures of HarriHarri Episode III, artist Harold Hajezi explores themes of belonging, racialization and alienation in a personal and humorous way. In the borderland between gaming, performance, and theater we ...

Afropocalypse

This energetic and hugely imaginative production follows the journey of a group of story tellers in an apocalyptic setting as they share their fables of hope and resilience. Afropocalypse’s fourteen strong ensemble ...

ARTIST TALKS - a relay

A relay of artist talks, where artists meet one on one in open conversations about process, practice, inspiration and method. Drop in, listen, and take part artist talks across disciplines.

bibu PARTY

What do Finnish karaoke, Helsingborg's best actor-DJs and Helsingborg's most exciting food court have in common? They all form the basis of the bibu PARTY!

bibu-MINGLE

If you arrive to Helsingborg on Tuesday 26 May, welcome to the bibu-MINGLE in Helsingborg City Theater's foyer!

Binnánaš balus – Nesten ikke redd – Almost not afraid at all

In the gamme, Anna has cocoa and a cozy surprise ready as Biret enters with wet feet. Biret prefers being indoors surrounded by people than having to worry about animals and nature lurking outside the thin gamme wal ...

BOOK PRESENTATION: CULTURAL POLICY FOR ARTS EDUCATION

The Research Program of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development at the University of Hildesheim in Germany brought together experts from the Universities in Dar Es Salam, Kampala, Nairobi, Pr ...

Book release - Sensory drama in specialist education

Theories and methods in sensory drama are published in book form with clear lesson plans in script form, ready to be used in the classroom.

Boys Don't Dance

Boys Don’t Dance is a poignant dance theatre show by acclaimed disabled director, choreographer and dancer Marc Brew, reflecting on his journey as a boy who defied society’s expectations to embrace his love for danc ...

c/o UNG TEATER - AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACTING TRAINING

Four persons from four countries meet in a conversation to elucidate and discuss views on theatre for youth and what place it could be given in acting education from an international perspective.

CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS VOICES - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

A unique opportunity to experience indigenous artists speaking about their artistic work, including artistic languages and narratives.  Celebrating Indigenous Voices - what stories are we telling, and what storie ...

Chotto Desh (UK)

Akram Khan’s Desh was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011.

Collaborative Theatre & Participation as Citizen Voice Amplifiers for Social Transformation

Nabeel’s presentation will focus on his journey to explore theatre and other  performance methods that are more sensitive and relevant to local communities, in direct collaboration and partnership with community mem ...

Comedy in sickness and crisis – does it really work?

What happens when there is no planned performance, when the artist shows up totally unexpected and when someone in the audience is seriously ill? Those are the everyday conditions for one of the performing arts’ mos ...

Communitas -CAMP and Trampoline House

Wich potential public art institutions – educational and museological – hold to contribute to unpacking and producing resolutions to the global urgencies.

Communitas -Rachel Tess

Through the lecture IS THIS IT? Tess shares her perspective on community and social/interactive artistic practices for young audiences through the works Reflective Nebula and Den Kosmiska Havsträdgårdspassagen. ...

CREATING PERFORMANCES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WHO HAVE THE MOST BARRIERS TO ACCESS

Workshops for actors and dancers with Ellie Griffiths (UK) and Natasha Gilmore (SCT-UK)

Cx4: Clowns, Common misunderstandings, Colonialism and Children

Who can kick who? What’s the role of gender and skin colour? Who finds clowns scary? What are some traps for the aspiring clown?

Danceoke

Almost like karaoke but instead of singing alone, we dance together. It´s easy. Watch, mimic and dance. Like Beyoncé, Whitney, Britney and Gwen. With ÖFA:kollektivet

Danshörnan med Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

A meeting place for dance throughout the festival. In Danshörnan, you can take a break between performances, meet colleagues, rest your body and move it. Here you will find both scheduled programme items and spontan ...

Danspaus - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir

Danspodden Isadora talks to Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, choreographer for Listening Party, about her artistic work, community dance and about working with participating youths in different countries.

Dansring - Kroppsklubben & ZebraDans

DIGITAL LEAP - CREATING AND SHARING DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE IN ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

Creating and sharing digital knowledge in artistic production. Digital Leap offers a training programme and free learning resources – Cookbooks – for circus and dance professionals who are interested in deepening th ...

Discussion with the International Selection Committee

Meet the International Selection Committee that has made the international selection for bibu 2024. Listen to their reasoning regarding artistic quality and the vibrant tendencies that have been relevant during &nbs ...

Echoa (France)

French dance company Arcosm presents the highly praised ECHOA. The production reflects the company’s objective to build bridges between artistic disciplines and languages.

Extreme Icebreaker

Don't know many people at Bibu? No worries!

Figurer

Figurer is an imaginative dance performance in which three mischievous characters with shaky self-esteem sneak into a theater on a mysterious mission. Inside, the dusty interior comes to life and the performance tra ...

Fika med Bibu - Climate Crisis and Impact of International Touring

Carbon footprint and environmental impact is becoming a primary concern in creating, producing, presenting and touring international performing arts productions.

Fika med Bibu - Performing arts for youth in Pakistan

Performing arts for youth in Pakistan - presentation and discussion with aspects on gender issues and women´s place within the field.

Fika with bibu

"Fika with bibu" is a meeting place for exchange, reflection and conversation between invited foreign guests and Swedish practitioners.

Fika with Bibu and the international council

Fika with Bibu and the international council for Bibu 2020 - about their selection process and discussions on international performing arts for children and youth.

Finding other methods - talk

A discussion about cultural identity and if dance contains common denominators. If we are characterized by places and methods. If there is an artistic essence.

Finding other methods - workshop

This workshop invites dancers from Sweden and Cuba to a shared practice.  Artistic methods from various viewpoints are researched and evaluated, exploring cultural identity, the personal and the cultural and if ther ...

Fine Lines

The work of Roser López Espinosa is based on strong physicality, with a great passion for precision, delicacy, acrobatic elements and detail. A lively and playful physical universe of refined poetics and often a tou ...

From Representation to Authorship: Disabled Led Creation on Stage

Beyond “inspiration” stories: this seminar challenges stereotypical disability narrative centring disabled artists as creators and exploring how commissioning can support authentic authorship.

GAGA - TRAINING WITH DANSALLIANSEN

Dansalliansen offer GAGA Dancers training for dancers and physical actors during Bibu.  Coach: Emma Rozgoni, certified Gaga instructor

Gudarnas väktare - Guardians of the Gods

Guardians of the Gods is a unique global production created within The Childhood Project, initiated by Unga Klara. Through a collaboration involving 11 countries across five continents, the play explores the relatio ...

Hands on International networking and mingle

Swedish Performing Arts Coalition (Scensverige) invites both Swedish and international  guests to present their organizations and goals, get to know the perfect collaborator, expand their network, get new ideas ...

How Does a Performance Taste – and Where Does It Really Make Itself Felt?

How is criticism changing in an era of digitalisation, co-creation, and new publics? A unique Nordic conversation between researchers and critics on how children and young people can become co-creators through creat ...

HOW you create determines WHAT you create

A workshop with Finnish-Swedish Blaue Frau

Ibland känns det som våra själar möts, jag och min publik 

The project Scen:se – about creating arts experiences for children and youth with complex needs

Is the space for LGBT+ perspectives for a young audience shrinking?

In Sweden we are used to being very free in the topics and perspectives for young audiences. We are now facing a societal backlash due to the increasing influences of neo-conservative ideas, where LGBT+ art and indi ...

Jobbigt

Jobbigt is the first dance piece by Ofelia Jarl Ortega made for a younger audience. Together, Marcus Baldemar, Ane Carlsen, Andrew Hardwidge and Laura Linna address the existential issues of being in a group togethe ...

KEYNOTE SEMINAR - CREATING POSSIBILITIES AND CO-CREATING ARTISTIC WORK

For children and youth with complex needs. Key note by Ellie Griffiths, Oily Cart theatre with special guest speaker Fiona Ferguson, Imaginate.

Klädställningen

Klädställningen is a playful and poetic circus performance. It is based on movement between hangers and clothes with different proportions. It is its own little world within the framework of a rather limited space a ...

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge

What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom? 

LET'S TALK ABOUT MONEY

Or is that something we shouldn't talk about? How does a performing artist make a living? We put a couple of questions on the round table about markets, attitudes towards money and maybe touch some taboos.....

Live Report from the United States: Performing Arts for Young Audiences in a Changing Political Landscape

A live report from the United States on how political shifts are affecting performing arts for young audiences — and how artists continue to create despite an increasingly pressured and unpredictable cultural policy ...

Mapping opportunities for playwrights in Europe

The Fence is an international network of playwrights and dramaturges with 275 members from 51 countries. The Center for Dramatic Writing works to widen the fields in which playwrights and scriptwriters work. 

Master Class with Zoë Demoustier

In connection with her performance What Remains at BIBU, Dansalliansen invites choreographer and performer Zoë Demoustier to lead a Master Class where participants will gain insight into her artistic practice.

Meet the International Selection Committee

Meet the international selection committee behind bibu 2026. Hear their insights on artistic quality, key trends, and how the performances resonated with jurymembers and audiences. Held in English.

MELO Collective’s creative processes with playful tools

Playful dance and movement exercises that require no prior knowledge; confidence exercises and creative collaborative exercises in collaboration with (live) music.

Mont St Gumboot

Mont Silent Gumboot is the highest mountain range on Great Labuan Island. In its centre is an active volcano whose pipe keeps eructing inextinguishable imagination lava into the sky. The total of six locals living h ...

Morning Swim / Morgondopp with ASSITEJ

Begin the festival with a refreshing dip and coffee by the water. Meet, reflect on performances, and share inspiring conversations in a warm festival community.

Moving from ”Play” to ”The Play” and back again: teachers and theatre-makers in collaboration

The theory and practice behind various modes of access to performance for audiences with complex needs

Myller

In Myller the dancers are constantly confronted with emerging landscapes, where various challenges and surprises push the group to find temporary solutions and binding agreements. This ongoing evolution reveals mome ...

Neighbours around the Baltic Sea - playwrights as important carriers of messages reflecting society

"Neighbours" is a playwright´s project to investigate an experienced lack of knowledge between neighbours across the Baltic Sea. In this presentation and reading we will share our work with you!

Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network Pitching event

In this event, eight companies and performing artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries present themselves and their productions ready for touring - all in one hour. After the pitch presentation, you are welcome ...

Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network Speed pitch

In this event, eight companies and performing artists from the Nordic and Baltic countries present themselves to eight programmers - in eight short 1:1 meetings.   By invitation only 

OPENING bibu 2026

The opening ceremony will begin with music performed by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and conclude with Skånes Dansteater's duet Fine Lines.

OPENING of BIBU 2024!

Welcome to the opening of Bibu 2024! In the main hall at Helsingborg Concert Hall, we invite you to a festive ceremony with several exciting welcome speakers and wonderful entertainment. 

PALS

PALS is a musical theatre work for young audiences by Ellen Renton about the friendship between a sighted girl and a visually impaired girl, using song, text, and movement to create an inclusive performance space.

Pim & Theo (Danmark)

It’s a bloody mess in the streets and a moral mess in our heads…

Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible

About artistic decisions behind making a version of an existing production for a new audience group - children and young people who where profoundly autistic and mainly non-verbal.

Portraying racism and structural racism for the young audience

Are stories about xenophobia and structural racism part of today’s performance art for children and the young?

Post performance discussion Afropocalypse

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International selection committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity t ...

Post Performance Discussion Mont St Gumboot

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask ques ...

Post performance discussion Myller

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the Swedish jury. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity to ask questions.

Post Performance Discussion What Remains

Post performance discussions together with participants from the performance together with a representative from the International selection committee. At the end of the talk, the audience is given the opportunity t ...

Presentation, workshop and reading of GRIPS Theatres show ”Kriegerin”

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks and fights. The only place she feels home is the Neo-Nazi gang she ...

Prospero workshops –Developing performing arts for children world wide

Welcome to a seminar where we are developing new scripts for children and youths in an intercultural context. We will read new scripts from Uganda, Burkina Faso and Nepal.  The seminar is partly held in english ...

Puppetry is everywhere in the Nordics and the Baltics

Puppet theater is more and more visible within the field of performing arts. Sometimes it plays the main role, sometimes it is an element alongside other expressions. A similar development is taking place throughout ...

Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Raised on Rhythm is a bodily total experience where dance, rhythm and music seamlessly intertwine to create a playful, explosive, energizing universe. From the audience's own heartbeat, the dancers take us on a wind ...

REPRESENTATION, CREATION AND INSPIRATION

Glad Theatre has taken the initiative to create a series of international artist residencies in which they invite artists who inspires them into spaces of creation and exploration. Their first artist residency was c ...

Rhapsody in Black (USA)

Rhapsody in Black follows one man´s spellbinding personal journey through an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania to teenage experiments with crime and drugs to scholastic achievement ...

Rörelseworkshop med Tove Sahlin

A playful movement workshop for actors, dancers, mime artists and all theatre workers open to movement.

Rotviska

A sensory theatre adventure through tangled roots, rustling foliage, and everything in between. At the heart of an ancient tree, full of life and movement, Rotviska follows every shift in nature. Here, the old makes ...

Rotviska – creating an accessible performing arts experience

Andrew Stanford and Eva von Hofsten discuss Rotviska, an accessible show for young people with complex disabilities, created by centering audience inclusion and artistic ambition from the start.

SAFT - Society, Family, Theatre

How do you find theatre when new in Sweden? SAFT gives Swedish For Immigrants students the chance to experience children's theatre with their families. A seminar about accessibility and inclusion.

SHEL WE

Shel We is an enchanting, playfully intriguing and visually stunning dance show created by Tupua Tigafua.  A highly accomplished dancer and choreographer who has had an illustrious career dancing for some of Aotearo ...

Shifting the Stage- Keynote with Caroline Bowditch

Keynote with choreographer and cultural leader Caroline Bowditch explores how to build a more inclusive performing arts sector for young audiences, highlighting collective responsibility and the power of disabled-le ...

Sisters Academy – Where art radically meet education and vice versa

Gry  Worre Hallberg will present the radical art-educational project Sisters Academy.

Sjaddo

Sjaddo means seed in Lule Sami, about growing and developing. To listen to one's instinct and intuition, to feel each other and to be present. It all begins with earth being created: the reindeer's body becomes fore ...

Social Circus – Art, laughter, change

Come to a seminar with Cirkus Cirkör, Clowner utan Gränser (Clowns without Borders) and Sorin Sirkus!

Storyline Discovery – young people tell, young people lead

Seminar and workshop on Storyline Discovery. Presentation of the project's journey, methods and youth participation, as well as practical exercises in participatory performing arts and creative storytelling with int ...

Sustainable touring opportunities in the Nordic - Baltic region

The Nordic-Baltic ASSITEJ Network is a regional network and co-operation format that includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden.  

Teachers as careful actors and actors as careful teachers

This seminar relates to the current touring pedagogic program, Under Stjärnorna (Below the Stars), initiated by Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se in collaboration with Estrad Norr.

Teatercentrums breakfast meeting - get to know the artist behind the performance

The artists behind three performances chosen by the jury for bibu.se 2016 have agreed to sit down over breakfast with a small audience to talk about who they are and what they create.

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

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.

The Childhood Project

The Childhood Project is a global collaborative initiative involving 11 countries across five continents, Initiated by Unga Klara. The project focuses on the international exchange of methodologies and narratives su ...

The Climate, our most important story - The role of performing arts in the climate transition

Discussion and presentation on the role of performing arts in the climate transition in two parts.

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LATVIA

LATVIA Workshop: What is a contemporary theatre show for children and young people today?

THE ROLE OF THE ONLINE FORMAT IN THE THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES (TYA)

The round table "The role of the online format in the TYA". We will think how online projects can help our live international events become better prepared, lower in cost and more eco-friendly.

The white stage

Which bodies take place on the stage today? Which stories are told and from which perspectives? Can anyone represent anything, and how do we break the white dominance?

THEATRE FOR EMERGING TRUTH AND LIBERATORY ACTIONS

The session highlights the Applied Theatre processes being worked with the children, of urban slums and schools, focusing on education system, climate sustainability practices, Peace & Justice.

THINKING ABOUT ARTISTIC CREATION FOR EARLY YEARS - MASTERCLASS with Barbara Kölling

Small Size Network invites you to a collective reflection and dialogue about artistic creation for early years facilitated by Barbara Kölling, artistic director of Helios theater from Hamm, Germany. The convers ...

Trans separatist meet-up

A forum for trans people to meet, make contacts and exchange experiences within the industry. We offer coffee!Organized by the network Transformers Scenkonst. 

Vår klass

The play Vår klass tells the story of ten teenagers in a small Polish village in 1925 and through the nazi and sovjet occupations all the way to this day.

Vintergatans bibliotek

Welcome to Vintergatans bibliotek, a sensory space where movement meets light and shadows meet sound. Here, movable shelves, tactile signs, and light shimmering from the books invite exploration. A moment together i ...

VOICES IN THE NORDICS: AN ARTISTIC LANGUAGE FOR JUSTICE & INCLUSION

Voices in the Nordics, a seminar exploring how art and culture reshape language around diversity and inclusion, sharing experiences and inviting audience dialogue.

Walk and Talk

Walk and talk through the streets of Helsingborg with the Nordic Baltic ASSITEJ Network, where we promise engaging conversations and meaningful meetings.

Walk and Talk: Diversity and accessibility in the performing arts for young audiences

Walk and Talks facilitate an unformal meeting on a personal level and assist the flow of thoughts and creativity by walking.  All festival visitors are welcomed to participate.    

Walk and Talk: Vision the future of the field and reflect the festival experience so far

Walk and Talks facilitate an unformal meeting on a personal level and assist the flow of thoughts and creativity by walking.  All festival visitors are welcomed to participate.    

We followed The Tail

In the project Svanslandet, Spinn explored and developed new methods to increase accessibility with children´s perspective.

What do we need next?

An international delegation of disabled artists from Sweden and Scotland in conversation with Caroline Bowditch about the future of performing arts for children and youth. 

What Remains

What Remains is a story about beginning and ending, about standing at the furthest point of a line in life, the point at which you start out as a child or end as an older person. The poetry of changing as a human be ...

Why are you afraid of the public space?

If you start thinking about public space, like really really think about it, as a place for art, you suddenly realize the potential.

Why international co-operation?

Why do we need to reach out for more and what can we gain from working abroad?

Working with the Child Perspective

In this workshop, we take a hands-on approach in identifying what a child’s perspective could be —and to using it when working with theatre for children.

Workshop med Kelly Hunter – Shakespeare’s Heartbeat – om att skapa scenkonst för och med barn och unga med autism

​The Hunter Heartbeat Method is a series of sensory games I have created for children and young people with autism.

WOW, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

Performance dramaturgy in contemporary circus The “wow-effect” is great in the genre of circus.The artists are risking their lives before us, the comic of the scene surprises and the human potential is strained m ...