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Performance image Tigern i magen

TIGERN I MAGEN

Performance
Adam has great imagination and lots of energy in his body. To stand still and wait for his turn is almost impossible, then the tiger in the stomach goes wild and wants to rush around and turn its tail. Adam has a twin sister too, her name is Aida. They …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Helsingborgs Stadsteater

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: Melted snow, flying snow, sticky snow, …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Dockteatern Tittut

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 place a long time ago, long before there …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Mittiprickteatern

Performance image Nätet

NÄTET

Performance
Nätet  is a freshly written suspense play by Profilteatern. We promise an exciting and thrilling experience for kids from 10 years and up. Agnes is an up-and-coming writer whose debut was a big hit. She now has the difficult task of following up her …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Profilteatern

Performance image Vara

VARA

Performance
When Hamlet's Mom said she did not want to be married to her Dad anymore, he died. Or, he is not dead, he has just moved. But what Father Hamlet remembers no longer exists. He's different now. A ghost. In addition, Mom has met a new one, a Claudius. …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Skuggteatern

Performance image Fångad i ett nätverk

FÅNGAD I ETT NÄTVERK

Performance
It`s about Moa who posts cute pictures of herself online. With the result that the virtual world becomes more threatening to her than the real one. And about Benjamin who posts pictures for fun… Fångad i ett nätverk  is a play to be played in classrooms …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Unga Teater Roma

Performance image Time Loops

TIME LOOPS

Performance
Time Loops wants to stop time with dance, sound and music! The dance project Time Loops dives deep into six different places in Skåne during the spring and summer of 2022. For two weeks, local participants meet four dancers from Skåne's Dance Theater. …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Skånes Dansteater

Performance image Do as I say

DO AS I SAY

Jury selection
Performance
Do as I say  is a physical dance performance that wants to make our social behavior visible on issues of bullying and authority. The performance is interactive and both the audience and dancers receive verbal instructions from a recorded voice, but who is …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Bobbi Lo Produktion

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 of vacuum between childhood and …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Kompani Giraff

Performance image Våra viktigaste vuxna

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA

Jury selection
Performance
My grandfather he listens well. He usually sits there with his hands on his knees and leans forward a little. He hears me, what I give. He kind of asked: What's wrong with you at school? Ah, has it happened in school! So he says. He's looking at me. I see …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Angereds Teater

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 into a world where anything can …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Helsingborgs stadsteater

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. Until they became teenagers, they were a complex tornado of chaos, a team that held each other by the back. Now Aicha's door is always closed. …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Husby

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, we invite the audience into an …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Marionetteatern

Performance image På ren svenska

PÅ REN SVENSKA

Jury selection
Performance
A performance about nationalism, racism and Swedishness A cottage. Two brothers meet their sister for the very first time. A little renovation follows with classic Swedish carpentry joy. But who really belongs in the cottage? På ren svenska (In Pure …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Regionteater Väst

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 all bodies are beautiful and valuable. …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Regionteater Väst

Performance image Hear how quiet it is

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR

Jury selection
Performance
A roaring undulating headphone show! How does a grain of sand falling against a barrel sound? Can the air in your lungs create a sounding landscape? Is the movement over a carpet perhaps a rhythm to dance to? Hör så tyst det är  as it is, is an …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Regionteatern Bleking & Kronoberg

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 is a monologue performance that examines …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Teaterambulansen och Johanna Karlsson

Performance image Orfeus & Eurydike

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE

Jury selection
Performance
Choreographer Örjan Andersson + Young at the Opera =  RETAKE  on a  CLASSIC Love, desire, loss and grief. We have been sharing these stories with each other for thousands of years ever since Orfeus tried to bring back his Eurydike. Someone made a mistake …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Unga Dramaten och Unga på Operan

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. A story about love between siblings and the farcical aspects of living with a violent father in a marital wreckage. It’s a fun, touching and brutal play with newly written live …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Unga Klara

performance image mamman, bibu 2018, Photo: Henrik Dahl

Mamman

Jury selection
Performance
A show for social justice activists of all sizes. The little town where we lived only had one purpose. The factory. Each morning before the sun had risen – sometimes it never rose at all – the fog was that thick – the factory whistle sounded: …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Teater Tribunalen

Performance image Ögonvittnen - Lea & Stefan

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

Jury selection
Performance
Where would you have hidden if the police had knocked on the door? 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 …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Unga Malmö Stadsteater

Performance image Shel We

SHEL WE

Jury selection
Performance
Inspired by the works of renowned American writer Shel Silverstein, 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 …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Le Moana Dance

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 English language. Mantis and the Bee were …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Jungle Theatre Company

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 her reservation. In many ways they …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Red Sky Performance

SALTBUSH

Jury selection
Performance
Saltbush is an immersive and interactive journey through the culture and language of Aboriginal Australia. Children’s Cheering Carpet – Saltbush Saltbush is a plant that can be found throughout Australia in almost all Aboriginal lands, and so it …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Insite Arts and Compagnia TPO

Performance image Beyond Sensation

BEYOND SENSATION

Jury selection
Performance
The Taiwanese performance  Beyond Sensation,  selected by the international selection committee, 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 …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Tjucenglav Forum

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 about the world that is both next to, …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Katarina Skår Lisa

Performance image Free room to play

FREE ROOM TO PLAY

Performance
In every person lives a creator 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 them to …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Lucy Rugman

Performance image Storm

STORM

Performance
Inspired by Shakespeare’s  Tempest ,  Storm  tells the story of the magician Prospero, his apprentice Ariel and the creature Caliban. Designed for children and young people who are on the autistic spectrum, this enchanting, intimate production has been …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Bamboozle

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, with a focus on sensory engagement. …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Barrowland Ballet

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, touch, marvel at, change into and vibrate …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Kollaborativet

Performance image 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. He …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Folkteatern Gävleborg

Perfomance image SAJJVA - The other world

SAAJVA, THE OTHER WORLD

Performance
SAAJVA-The Other World Is a contemporary Saami stunt dance about the other world, The Kingdome of death. A dance piece where the choreographer Ola Stinnerbom has developed an acrobatic dance technique on constantly staying and dancing upside down. In the …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Stinnerbom Production

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. In Into The Roots , Fanny Kivimäki starts from her own and …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Big Wind

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, tackling a silver lake and finding the best …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Claire Parsons Co

Performance image The Choreography

KOREOGRAFIN

Performance
Koreografin  explores the world through movement and examines how the way we move can affect what we think, see and feel. Koreografin is based on audience participation. Everyone in the audience gets a pair of headphones through which they will hear a …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Johanssons pelargoner och dans

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? The acclaimed choreographer Mari …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Regionteater Väst

Illustration Young Swedstage

YOUNG SWEDSTAGE: WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Seminar
For Young Swedstage we have selected eight productions from different genres, able to tour and accessible for a non-Swedish speaking audience. What are our fellow programmers and festival directors looking for when programming festivals and venues? In …

Biennial program 2022

Illustration Next Generation

MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION (GIVING YOU PLACEMAKING)

Seminar
The Next Generation is a residency program aiming to support artistic and cultural exchange and collaboration between international artists under 36 with an interest for working with performing arts for children and youth. ASSITEJ Sweden and Bibu have …

Biennial program 2022

Performance image Drömlek

WOW, WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

Seminar
What does the creators of nonverbal performing arts genres do with space, time and our unfaithful interest? How is a series of experiences created and how are they connected? And how do the inherent powers of the subdisciplines conspire to the …

Biennial program 2022

PERFORMING GREEN - TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMING ARTS SECTOR

Seminar
The participants have gathered frequently to discuss sustainability and its relevance, as well as the potential difficulties to apply sustainability to the artistic and organizing work of independent theatre and dance groups. The main question was: How …

Biennial program 2022

Actor: Bæredygtig Scenekunst NU

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 development within the performing arts. The tool …

Biennale programme 2018

Actor: Big wind

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - ESTONIA

Seminar
Setos are a Finno-Ugric ethnic and linguistic minority in south-eastern Estonia and north-western Russia. For centuries, Seto culture has been an oral culture, where the core values have been passed on by singing. Today, the language (still officially a …

Biennial program 2022

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - LATVIA

Seminar
LATVIA Workshop: What is a contemporary theatre show for children and young people today? “ The Children’s and Youth Theater Institute” is developing and researching a method that allows theatre professionals to acquire the necessary skills in creating …

Biennial program 2022

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - NORWAY

Seminar
Two discussion panels on thoughts on national identity: 1. Panel of speakers introduce their thoughts on national identity in performing arts in general (speakers from all continents) - discussion on the topic. 2. Panel of Nordic and Baltic speakers …

Biennial program 2022

THE NORDIC BALTIC HOUSE - FINLAND

Seminar
• Multifaceted festival collaboration – Drawing out various ways of sustainable collaboration between festivals in the Nordic-Baltic region. What is sustainable programming? How to involve sustainable practices in all the levels of festival production and …

Biennial program 2022

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