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Kan själv! bibu 2016

Kan själv!

Jury selection
Performance
Here you'll meet two people trying. Trying hard to work together. And getting better! To struggle with an impossible task, o find solutions and most of all never to give up - is something children can! And if children can, we grown-ups also could. Once …

Actor: Teater Pero

man with his arms crossed in front of sketched persons

Smålands mörker

Jury selection
Performance
Not long ago it was all clear to Erik. In his view, some people were more worth and others less, and this was something that needed to be changed in society. Not just changed, actually, but burnt to the ground so that something new could rise from the …

Actor: Regionteatern Blekinge Kronoberg

Troll i utkanten av samhället, bibu 2016

Troll i utkanten av samhället

Jury selection
Performance
Welcome to the verge of the community. To the far out places. To the trolls. Those who don’t fit in, can’t afford or are too apart. Those who never have family activities, soccer tournaments, birthday parties or cosy Fridays. Those who need to be …

Actor: Regionteater Väst Teater

three persons holding hands

Vahák

Jury selection
Performance
The performance Vahák - violence - takes place in a reality where colonial and homophobic violence act together. Queer desires, love declarations, grieves and dreams meet in a performance that stages what unites us minorities in minorities, and invite to …

Actor: Ögonblicksteatern

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. Together with the 14-16 year old audience, we will dig deep in inner …

Biennale programme 2016

Actor: ZebraDans

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.​ …

Actor: JUCK

Six drummers på Operaverkstan, bibu 2016

Six drummers på Operaverkstan

Jury selection
Performance
Where does music begin, and where does it end? What does silence sound like? What do you hear? Autumn 2014 Malmö Opera´s laboratory Operaverkstan invited music collective Six drummers to their venue. The goal was to, together with Operaverkstan and their …

Actor: Operaverkstan

Vår klass, bibu 2016

Vår klass

Jury selection
Performance
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. What happens when the sincere friendship from childhood years turns into hostile enmity? Who is the …

Actor: Helsingborgs stadsteater

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. Now, Akram Khan Company and Theatre-Rites director Sue Buckmaster have adapted this much-loved production for children aged 7+ and their families. …

Actor: Akram Khan Company

International reception

Performance
The mayor of Helsingborg welcomes our international guests and shows the town hall. A drink and a snack will be provided by City of …

Actor: Helsingborgs Stad

Girls will make you blush!

Jury selection
Performance
As one of the first performances on the theme of menstruation and puberty we have seen recently, Girls will make you blush is a piece that cuts straight to the chase and devour the audience in giggles and guffaws. Skillfully portraid in a …

Actor: Unga Klara i samarbete med Carrasco Dance Company och Västmanlands Teater

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?  In the performance Between Us, the choreographer Nadja Hjorton, together with the …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Folkteatern Gävleborg

Hela familjen, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Hela familjen

Jury selection
Performance
Poor Leia (yes, she is named after the lady in the bikini in Star Wars) has a secret love who will dump her twice, but she doesn’t know that yet. Leia´s mom and a dad are eating meat on the balcony but say they are vegans. And she has a sister who tries …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Skärholmen

Glängtan Photo: Ola Kjelbye

Glängtan

Jury selection
Performance
Below the ground, where we cannot see, the trees lead their mysterious lives. They talk to each other, take care of their youngsters, and they might even remember things. They feel when someone’s chopping in them, warn each other of diseases and when it’s …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Backa teater

5114 dagar Photo: Ola Kjelbye

5114 dagar

Jury selection
Performance
How is it to have lived in 5114 days? To be almost adult, but looked upon as a kid. Filled with secrets and longing, but at the same time scared to death. The age of paradoxes when everything clashes. The actors’ ”then” is the audience’s “now”. 5114 days …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Backa teater

Vill ha hund

Jury selection
Performance
Playful paws, kisses from a wet nose, soft cuddly fur. The idea of a dog on your own that always wags the tail when it sees you can be pure happiness and worth every effort. You tend to look positive at everything, but after a while things may …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Dockteatern Tittut

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 from Kung Saga Highschool and the Royal Swedish Ballet School. "An interplay on equal terms. So beautiful and moving with a place …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: MELO Collective

Förhör

Förhör

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. But there is a reason for it. A reason which she will refuse to the greatest lengths to …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Örebro länsteater

Hemligt

Hemligt

Jury selection
Performance
"Dear diary! I think Emma is angry with me. She’s best friends with Gretchen. We never fought before Gretchen came along but now we do even though Emma’s the one starting all the fights and who doesn’t wanna be best friends anymore because she’s got …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Banditsagor

Hopp och hinder

Hopp och hinder

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. Angelica with C who likes to show up but is afraid to fail, the …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Regionteater Väst

Into the Roots

Into the Roots

Jury selection
Performance
A dance performance where, Fanny Kivimäki, expresses her feelings of homesickness as well as ours. Some of us left home of our own free will, while others were forced into exile. Into the Roots portrays the nostalgia which we, for better or worse, …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Fanny Kivimäki

DNA - dansa nära anhörig

DNA - Dansa nära anhörig

Jury selection
Performance
When did you last ask your mother to dance? "I am aware that I still exist, that I am alive. That there is someone who calls me mom, that means somebody loves me." DNA - Dance Nära Anhörig (Dance close to a relative) is an invite to dance again. How would …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Backa teater

Gregarious

Gregarious

Jury selection
Performance
Two sublime circus artists. The best of friends and the biggest competitors. Fiercely they struggle to be best, fastest, strongest. They compete until the last drop of sweat and drive each other mad. Gregarious is a wonderfully anti-heroic study of the …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Soon Circus Company

Rabbinens katt

Rabbinens katt

Jury selection
Performance
Rabbinens katt (The Rabbi´s Cat) is a music and puppet show about a cat that starts talking and the consequences of it. The show is about seeing things from new perspectives, about different ways of relating to tradition and religion, about the longing …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Re:Orient

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Jury selection
Performance
An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show, Riddare av tusen äventyr (Knight of a thousand adventures) based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement. It's dark but the Girl Scouts can see anyway. They have practiced all …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: PotatoPotato Scenkonst

Tråkmånsafton

Tråkmånsafton

Jury selection
Performance
Tråkmånsafton (A Humdrum Day) is a circus show about the most boring day of the year. When Antti is bored he goes to Jonny The Scrap Collector and Leif Nordin - the best neighbors in the world. They claim that just like Christmas Eve and Midsummer’s Eve, …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Kompani Giraff

Bounce!

Bounce!

Jury selection
Performance
Bounce! happily discusses the failure, an universal experience, an unexpected start for a new way of living: the beginning of an adventure, gushing, questioning how to bounce! The quartet moves in space, musicians tune, dancers heat up. Gestures are …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Compagnie Arcosm, Frankrike (FR)

Future Beats

Future Beats

Jury selection
Performance
The earliest rhythm can be perceived as ritualized everyday occurrences: Calm and attention, satisfaction and protest, hunger and fulfillment. Our closest caregivers are the first ones to use speech melodies, rhythmic word games and noises, to constantly …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Theater o.N. Tyskland (DE)

Listening Party

Listening Party

Jury selection
Performance
Listening Party is a party on stage and the hosts are a big group of teenagers, aged 13-17 years old. The group is going to play their favourite music. Sometimes they will sing along or dance along, cry along or simply hang out and listen to music in …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, Island (ISL)

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother

Jury selection
Performance
Lucy and Raedie are Mother and Son. They both REALLY love the singer Sia. They love her music, her videos and especially her hair.  They love the way it moves in a choppy, black-on-platinum swivel. This high-energy performance exposes the inherent …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: 21Common, Skottland (GBR)

Vilka är ni?

Vilka är ni?

Jury selection
Performance
Both humorous and serious, Vilka är ni? (Who are you?) is an existential mediation on humankind that in collaboration with the audience explores identities and expectations. What can the animal and plant kingdoms teach us about our humanity? What does it …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Ögonblicksteatern

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

Jury selection
Performance
Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta   (The dude opens up) Bro. Brothers. Brate. Habibi. Brate moj. Brakam. Akhi. Ukhti. One more time I’ve turned my cheek. One more time felt like shit – didn’t fit it. The weird dudes, that’s us. They said: Romeo, didn’t we …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Skärholmen Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

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. The dancers push their bodies to the limit, testing where their exhaustion takes them, both physically and mentally. They …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Riksteatern / BamBam Frost

Fisken och Bintou – Flickan som fick alla att lyssna

Performance
Bintou and her siblings are orphans and live with their kind grandfather. When he dies their greedy and lazy relatives move in to the house and make the children do all the work. How will Bintou make the adults listen and take responsibility? The help …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Dinn Dinn Bulo / Mumrik Kulturproduktion

Hugo

Hugo – elak, blodtörstig och jättefarlig

Performance
Hugo has been forced to leave his life as a circus performer behind, and finds himself far out in the woods. Having been a tightrope walker, he is of course no ordinary crocodile, and loves to knit and bake. He wants nothing more than to receive guests in …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Boulevardteatern

Mitt kalas!

Performance
“Everyone is invited to MY party. Aaaaall of you! Not just the boys, or just the girls.  But NO babies! I hate babies! I have a little brother, he is 28, and everyone says! 'He is soooo cute!' HE IS NOT CUTE! He has goatee, it's NOT cute! Place yourself …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Skuggteatern

Vi vet var du bor

Vi vet var du bor

Performance
An electronic opera about freedom of expression. What is your teacher up to when he/she’ s not at work? Is it okay to do whatever you fancy doing outside of work?doing outside of work? As long as it doesn´t affect your teaching, of course. Can you …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Månteatern

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! A playful look at the joy of inventiveness and curiosity, the negotiation of social structures, …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Indepen-dance 4, Skottland (GBR)

Stranden

Stranden

Performance
Stranden is based on the poem "Dover Beach" written by Matthew Arnold and the audience is invited to the scenery where the poem takes place, a poetic beach café by the sea. British director Tim Webb’s work is multisensory, playful and interactive. The set …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Scen:se

Shakespeares hjärtslag

Shakespeares hjärtslag

Performance
Shakespeares Hjärtslag (Shakespeare’s Hearbeat) is based on William Shakespeare's play Pericles. Using a number of selected scenes and rhythmic lyrics, music and songs from the the children/young people are invited to participate. Together with the …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: Scen:se

Djurens karneval

Performance
In Djurens karneval (Carnival of the Animals) a magical universe full of imaginative creatures awaits. To the tones of Camille Saint-Saëns’s classical masterpiece ‘Le carnaval des animaux’, these spectacular beings welcome you to a place outside our …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: En samproduktion av Danssamverkan Sydsverige

Anchors Away

Anchors Away

Performance
Three little people with big dreams of sailing. Following the performance "Smashing", our interpretation of tennis as art, we now want to continue our investigation with sailing as a theme: Three dancers in a wordless performance about the noble art of …

Biennial programme 2020

Actor: S.O.J. Scenkonstproduktion & Dunkers kulturhus

bibu is a four day Performing Arts Biennial

bibu is the most important meeting place in Sweden for professional performing arts for a young audience – an arena where all of us who work with children, young people and performing arts and culture, get together to experience and discuss performing …

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Former programmes

Here you can find the programmes of jury chosen performances and other activities such as seminars, workshops, extra performances for the biennials …

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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 …

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bibu's archive

Here below you can find earlier programmes, including performances, seminars, workshops etc, for bibu  2016-2022. Programmes for bibu 2008-2014 can be downloaded as …

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Bibu Archive

Here below you can find the program, performances, seminars, workshops etc for Bibu 2024, 2022, 2018 and 2016. Programs for Bibu 2008-2014 can be downloaded as …

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Bookings and tickets

Next Bibu is 17-22 of May 2022 in Helsingborg! Bookings and tickets will be available 2021/2022 - We will keep you updated on the dates on our website and social media - please stay …

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Biennial programme 2020

The programme for Bibu 2020 will be presented here in early spring. Jury chosen Swedish and International productions will be presented in January. The whole programme will be published in middle of March, when the booking also opens.  Looking forward to …

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Måns Lagerlöf new chairperson for Bibu

Måns Lagerlöf is the new chairperson for Bibu. "Bibu is in my opinion an important arena to strengthen the art of performing arts for children and youth. An area whose artistic status often is questioned. Therefore meeting places for those who defend …

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How can we create stories for a new time? How does texts formed in an international context look like?

How can we create stories for a new time? How does texts formed in an international context look like? A seminar about reflections from an intercultural and artistic exchange in theatre for children and youth - Prospero Workshops II.   The seminar was …

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World's Worst Children's Theater - seminar

During this spring Bibu has in collaboration with Månteatern and their actors workshopped with 75 students from the 5th and 7th grade. The theme for the workshops has been “what is good and poor theatre”. The aim for the project has been to inspire the …

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Transitos Habana - Scandinavian exchange since 2012

Bibu participated in this year's edition of the festival Jornadas de Intercambio Cultural con Paises Escandinavos: Transitos Habana in Havana. The Swedish company Memory Wax has been co-organizing the festival since 2012. At the festival, artists from …

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Making culture

Making culture – an anthology on the cultural habits of children and young people in the Nordic countries. Monday the 16th September the anthology was presented at a seminar in Gothenburg. Bibu's board member Anna Berg was present at the seminar.  The …

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FUNKTION

Besides from the ordinary program, we have received extra funding and are very happy to announce that we will have a thematic program next Bibu with performances, seminars and workshops all within the field of creating inclusive performing arts. Theme …

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Research on how children’s culture strengthens children’s status

Many children spend several hours a day on culture. Music, literature, tv programmes, films and digital media - children’s culture varies enormously. What is common to all these channels is that they influence children’s development. Work at the Centre …

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