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Biennale programme 2022

Filtered on: Performance

Performance image Beyond Sensation

BEYOND SENSATION

Jury selection

Performance

Beyond Sensation is based on the concept of “creating the new with tradition and building the old with future”. With cooperation and exchange between the two parties, the  future image is portrayed with the present ...

Theatre

Perfoming image Buster Keaton på månen

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN

Jury selection

Performance

Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn Persson.

Theatre

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

Performance image Do as I say

DO AS I SAY

Jury selection

Performance

The performance is interactive and both the audience and dancers receive verbal instructions from a recorded voice, but who is actually in charge? Through abstract choreography and concrete stories, the audience is ...

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

Performance image Ett frö i rymden

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN

Jury selection

Performance

Marionetteatern upsizes and fills the stage with giant jellyfish, a bicycle fish on wheels, a squirrel that’s fast as lightning and an unstoppable machine. With newly-written music, puppets and colourful stage sets, ...

Preschool

Puppetry

Performance image Fanfiction

FANFICTION

Jury selection

Performance

From her old letters, diaries and family albums, Johanna Karlsson creates a scenic fanzine. In the performance, she cuts apart memories and books in an attempt to create a new story; with a happy ending. Fanfiction ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image Fångad i ett nätverk

FÅNGAD I ETT NÄTVERK

Performance

Fångad i ett nätverk is a play to be played in classrooms about exposure online that aim to build safety and confidence between actors and audience. It focuses on the vulnerability for young girls, and boys, in cons ...

Lower secondary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Free room to play

FREE ROOM TO PLAY

Performance

Free Room to Play want to create new possibilities for children and young people with disabilities to create and perform music. To widen the understanding of the ability of these young people as creators and allow t ...

Funktion

Perfomance image Häxor

HÄXOR

Performance

Häxor are in our midst and have been around for hundreds of years, but how do you recognize a witch? How do you know it's not a witch sitting opposite you on the bus, who's your teacher, or who's your married aunt? ...

Lower primary school

Young Swedstage

Performance image Hear how quiet it is

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR

Jury selection

Performance

Hör så tyst det är as it is, is an interactive experience, for the middle school, created by the performing arts collective Nyxxx, where the audience and actors together create a narrative concert based on sound sce ...

Listen

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

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

Performance image Into the roots

INTO THE ROOTS

Performance

With a strong presence, Fanny Kivimäki gives a performance about life, dreams and remorse. Depicted through a combination of expressive music, dreamy video art and with expressive dance in focus.

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

Performance image The Choreography

KOREOGRAFIN

Performance

The Choreography is based on audience participation. Everyone in the audience gets a pair of headphones through which they will hear a voice telling them how to move, how to relate to one’s body and how to relate to ...

Young Swedstage

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

Performance image Mantis and the Bee

MANTIS AND THE BEE

Jury selection

Performance

Mantis and the Bee is based on a story of the first people.  It is a visual, musical, and humorous exploration of /Xam mythology and the origin of life. The performance uses dance, masks, puppetry, Khoikhoi, and Eng ...

Middle school

Puppetry

Theatre

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

Perfomance image Mizeria

MIZERIA

Jury selection

Performance

The twins Aicha and Ali were born on the same day, in the same family and both carry their postcode as a flag. On each side, they struggle to find their way between pile of pipes, washing times, telemarketing jobs, ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Mizeria

MOLN

Jury selection

Performance

Moln is a circus performance imbued with music and inspired by the life and work of legendary Swedish poet Karin Boye. Its framework is the tale of a collection of individuals living at each other’s mercy in a sort ...

Circus

Young Swedstage

Performance image Mysteriet på Gården

MYSTERIET PÅ GÅRDEN

Performance

This is an exciting performance that is played outdoors on the preschool / school yard. Three fairy tale archaeologists come to the preschool yard because they heard that a fairy tale had taken place at this very pl ...

Preschool

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Nätet

NÄTET

Performance

Agnes is an up-and-coming writer whose debut was a big hit. Felix is an artist who has been assigned to illustrate Agnes’ new book - a horror story for teenagers. They have never met before but now they are travelli ...

Middle school

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Ögonvittnen - Lea & Stefan

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

Jury selection

Performance

What do you think it was like as a child to end up in a concentration camp during World War II? What places, scents, faces do you think one remember from such an experience? Stefan Zablocki and Lea Gleitman survived ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

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 På ren svenska

PÅ REN SVENSKA

Jury selection

Performance

På ren svenska (In Pure Swedish) is a performance that examines what it is to be Swedish. How is a national affiliation created? How does one become Swedish? And who can join the community?

Lower secondary school

Theatre

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

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

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

Performance image Stora drömspelet

STORA DRÖMSPELET

Jury selection

Performance

Stora drömspelet is a show for everyone who still got a childish mind left. Erik Holmström has together with the ensemble created a spectacle for the youngest audience. I Stora drömspelet, the audience gets to step ...

Family

Preschool

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image Storm

STORM

Performance

Designed for children and young people who are on the autistic spectrum, this enchanting, intimate production has been carefully designed to put audience members at ease throughout, giving them space and time to mov ...

Funktion

Performance image Stranden

STRANDEN

Performance

The set design is adapted with custom-made seating for the audience, and newly composed music is performed live on stage by the actors. The show is built up in several layers to be able to communicate with children ...

Funktion

Theatre

Performance image Tigern i magen

TIGERN I MAGEN

Performance

Tigern i magen is written by the comic book author Sara Hansson and is presented in collaboration with Banditsagor. With the help of a picturesque world of sound and a dollhouse-like scenography, we are moved into a ...

Family

Preschool

Theatre

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

Performance image Vara

VARA

Performance

Vara is a performance with humor and imagination where the audience gets to follow Hamlet's grief and frustration for the first time in her parents' divorce. The audience gets to see her try to take power over a sit ...

Lower primary school

The school as venue

Theatre

Performance image Våra viktigaste vuxna

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA

Jury selection

Performance

In the adult world, it is common to like and think about children, but the year when the children's convention became Swedish law, Angereds Teater became the perspective and let the children like the adults. What ar ...

Lower primary school

Theatre