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a place

a place

Jury selection

Performance

In MELO Collective’s latest performance a place the space is shared by the audience, dancers, musicians, singers and students.

Dance

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Anchors Away

Anchors Away

Performance

Three little people with big dreams of sailing.

Dance

Family

Theatre

bild Bak-å-fram-på, bibu 2018, Photo: Lina Ikse

Bak-å-fram-på

Performance

This performance is not selected by the jury but included in Tema Friktionskraft: Teatercentrum presents a tool for analysing performances to encourage a norm-creative approach to artistic work and audience developm ...

Friction

Theatre

Dance

Bounce!

Bounce!

Jury selection

Performance

Bounce! happily discusses the failure, an universal experience, an unexpected start for a new way of living.

Dance

Lower primary school

Middle school

Föreställningsfoto med textplatta Breath in the Wild - Shiraz Amar

Breath in the Wild - Shiraz Amar

Performance

Something we've never seen! Tents that dance, tents that move, tents that float and hug, tents that frolic, tents that are sad and happy - to the beat of disco music. It's exciting and crazy - here it's allowed to l ...

Dance

Lower primary school

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Young Swedstage

Performance image Čázevulošnieida - The Underwater girl

Čázevulošnieida – THE UNDERWATER GIRL

Jury selection

Performance

Čázevulošnieida, directly translated to The underwater girl, is an interdisciplinary work of art. The work is both an art installation and a dance art performance based on the Sea Sámi story ‘Undervannsjenta’ and ab ...

Dance

Preschool

Chotto Desh (Storbritannien), bibu 2016

Chotto Desh (UK)

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

English

De Passant, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Kathleen Michiels

De Passant

Jury selection

Performance

Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home? 

Theatre

Dance

DIGITAL LEAP - CREATING AND SHARING DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE IN ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

Seminar

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 ...

Circus

Dance

English

Djurens karneval

Performance

In Djurens karneval (Carnival of the Animals) a magical universe full of imaginative creatures awaits.

Dance

Middle school

DNA - dansa nära anhörig

DNA - Dansa nära anhörig

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.

Dance

Theatre

Upper secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med rosa textplatta med texten Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

Performance

An immersive performing arts experience for all senses - together we explore a universe of materials whose unique properties bring our hearing, sight, movement and touch to life. A place for presence and community w ...

Dance

Funktion

Theatre

Show image, bibu 2016

Echoa (France)

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Musical

English

Four Go Wild in Wellies

Four Go Wild in Wellies

Performance

Four Go Wild in Wellies is a whimsical adventure featuring bobble hats, scarves, tents that have a life of their own and, of course, lots of fun in wellies!

Dance

Preschool

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

GAGA - TRAINING WITH DANSALLIANSEN

Other

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

Dance

English

Performance image I am time, I am space - A sensory journey of discovery

I AM TIME, I AM SPACE – A SENSORY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

Performance

Light, shadows, reflections, soft, hard, rough, cold, hot, heavy and airy in the sounds of the body. An experiential walk in a landscape where body and space can find their own rhythm to breathe. Rooms to explore, t ...

Dance

Funktion

Into the Roots

Into the Roots

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. 

Dance

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Jag tänker på dig - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jag tänker på dig (I'm thinking of you) - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jury selection

Performance

A gentle voice in the headphones guides us through the library. On the basis of our own bodies, we move through the room in a choreography. Alone and together with others. With assignments we are taken into the wor ...

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Theatre

JUCK, bibu 2016

JUCK

Jury selection

Performance

JUCK is a movement, JUCK is activism, JUCK is power, JUCK is not oops I did it again, JUCK is dance. JUCK is.​

Dance

koreografin performance image, Photo: Johan Sundén

Koreografin

Jury selection

Performance

"Koreografin" explores the world through movement and investigates how the way we move affects how we perceive the world. What we think, see and feel.

Dance

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

performance image LÅR, bibu 2018, Photo: Graham Adey

LÅR

Jury selection

Performance

"LÅR" is a playful show, a tribute to the thighs where they get to glitter, giggle, be recognised,

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Performance image Lilla Svansjön

LILLA SVANSJÖN

Performance

Claire Parsons' performance Lilla Svansjön was created in collaboration with Unga Dramaten in Stockholm. Instead of the graceful swans that the visitor expects, three figures appear on stage trying out flights, t ...

Dance

Young Swedstage

Listening Party

Listening Party

Jury selection

Performance

It's a teenage party and they cry if they want to. 

Dance

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med grön textplatta med texten me two / WE, THE CLIQUE - Low Air Vilnius city dance theatre

me two / WE, THE CLIQUE - Low Air Vilnius city dance theatre

Jury selection

Performance

me two / We, the Clique is a bold, cheeky and intense performance where the audience is confronted with the authentic storytelling of the young performers. It is naked and stripped down. The personal testimonies are ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

Mellan oss

Jury selection

Performance

What are boundaries, and what do they do to us? Which boundaries can we cross, and are they open to all of us? How does something become boundary-less or boundless? 

Dance

Theatre

Preschool

Performance image Mitatim

MISTATIM

Jury selection

Performance

An unforgettable story of reconciliation, Mistatim is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his ranch and Speck on ...

Dance

Theatre

Performance image Mitt jag

MITT JAG

Jury selection

Performance

The performance Mitt jag encourages a positive self-image and seeing the beauty of our differences. Through movement and textiles, we together create an illuminated sculptural world where the starting point is that ...

Dance

Middle school

performance image myriader av världar, bibu 2018, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Myriader av världar

Jury selection

Performance

Get up CLOSE and personal with art – for babies and toddlers aged 3-18 months. Allow your little one to experience art and explore every corner of the stage!

Opera

Dance

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

Performance

Ne Ne Ne is a playful dance theatre exploration of a meadow in a forest. There is a tea cup and a fish and an umbrella hanging from the trees, and underneath the trees there might be caterpillars and perhaps also ev ...

Dance

persons in a monster suit

ÖFA: MONSTER

Jury selection

Performance

ÖFA: Monster is a performance that invites you inside, a show and an experience  here monstrous emotions ravages, and where monsters makes room for dreams about alternative realities.

Dance

Performance image Orfeus & Eurydike

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE

Jury selection

Performance

Orfeus & Eurydike is based on the story of Orfeus who in his despair after losing his beloved steps into the underworld to bring her back. The story poses questions about what it is to love and mourn. There is an ad ...

Dance

Performance image Playful Tiger

PLAYFUL TIGER

Performance

Playful Tiger is for children and young people with complex needs such as autism. It tells the story of a tiger’s visit to a rigid family home where he turns their world upside down. It’s chaotic but brilliantly fun ...

Circus

Dance

Funktion

Performance image, Propeté, bibu, 2016

Propreté

Jury selection

Performance

Life is organization who works though a special set of rules.

Dance

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Jury selection

Performance

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 ...

Dance

English

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Perfomance image SAJJVA - The other world

SAAJVA, THE OTHER WORLD

Performance

A dance piece where the choreographer Ola Stinnerbom has developed an acrobatic dance technique on constantly staying and dancing upside down. In the older Saami Culture, the Kingdome of death was a mirror world dir ...

Dance

Young Swedstage

SALTBUSH

Jury selection

Performance

Saltbush is a plant that can be found throughout Australia in almost all Aboriginal lands, and so it represents a common thread between all the different nations of Australian Indigenous peoples. The narrative centr ...

Dance

Preschool

Performance image Shel We

SHEL WE

Jury selection

Performance

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 ...

Dance

English

Middle school

signalisterna, bibu 2018, Photo: Jonas Jörneberg

Signalisterna

Jury selection

Performance

"The Signalists" are part of the three-year project named Stafetten, where Masthuggsteater collaborates with students at Sandeklevs school in Bergsjön.

Theatre

Dance

Preschool

Lower primary school

Sissy Bomb, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: RES

Sissy Bomb

Jury selection

Performance

A collective and anti-educational project about  empowerment and och free spaces for a young audience and grownups (from 14 years and up).

Dance

Skymningsfåglar (Dusk birds) - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo

Jury selection

Performance

Using darkness as a stage, this performance is full of sound, life and movement. It's a beautiful and carefully crafted spectacle that awakens the imagination and sharpens the senses. Mysterious night creatures come ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Performance image Snö

SNÖ

Jury selection

Performance

The snow creaks and squeaks. The ice is cracking. The animals move across the landscape. Nature is self-evident, eternal and unadulterated. A source of energy and reflection. The Sami language has 200 words for snow ...

Dance

Preschool

Puppetry

Young Swedstage

So Sorry

So Sorry

Jury selection

Performance

A dance collage of popular culture, packaged in pink plastic. A playful, intense collage of pop culture’s expression and dance.

Dance

Upper secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten SOS - Stormar och strömavbrott – Shake it Collaborations

SOS - Stormar och strömavbrott – Shake it Collaborations

Performance

For the worrying kind as well as for those who never do, SOS – Stories of Storms is an equally playful and serious family performance where reality merges with imagination. The harp and cello guide us through stor ...

Dance

Lower primary school

Middle school

Young Swedstage

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

Jury 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.

Dance

Theatre

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

English

Föreställningsfoto med blå textplatta med texten THIS IS NOT A RELIGION – Bobbi Lo Produktion

THIS IS NOT A RELIGION – Bobbi Lo Produktion

Performance

In this piece, you will experience community with the collective through untamed dance. Be uplifted and indulge in togetherness and comfort. Seamlessly, structure and form change and your intuition is put into play. ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

Young Swedstage

Performance image Time Loops

TIME LOOPS

Performance

Time Loops wants to find the extraordinary and remarkable in the everyday. Investigate community, location and time in relation to people, routines and landmarks in some residential areas in Skåne. Praise the power ...

Dance

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Untz baby untz - Dansstaionen & MYKA

UNTZ BABY UNTZ – Dansstationen & MYKA

Jury selection

Performance

The beats of the bass drum increase in intensity, the smoke machine fizzes and soon babies and toddlers are welcomed to their first encounter with the club space. It's a pulsating, expressive and inviting choreograp ...

Dance

Family

Preschool

three persons holding hands

Vahák

Jury selection

Performance

The performance Vahák - violence - takes place in a reality where colonial and homophobic violence act together.

Dance

Theatre

Musical

Föreställningsfoto med grön textplatta med texten VÁSTÁDUS EANA - The answer is land - Elle Sofe Company

VÁSTÁDUS EANA - The answer is land - Elle Sofe Company

Jury selection

Performance

Joke and dance come together in this all-round work of art, which is also a female manifestation of the nature we are entrusted to manage. 'Vástádus eana' begins outdoors as an external journey about nature and our ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Young adults