Teaterunionen was founded in 1951 as the Swedish centre of the ITI. Over the years, the organization has developed into a platform for the Swedish performing arts, where we also work to support international relationships through collaboration and promote Swedish performing arts internationally.
As the (still) newly appointed managing director, I have now participated in my first meeting with the International Theatre Institute.
This happened last week in Fujairah, the United Arab Emirates. The meeting included presentations of the exciting and important work of the various ITI committees.
At the office, we have now started the planning of our coming festivals, Swedstage, October 23-25 2016 and Scenkonstbiennalen (The Swedish Biennial for Performign Arts), May 23-28 2017. Be sure to save the dates!
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Welcome to check out our new mobile-optimized website and learn more!
Ulricha Johnson, managing director
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Upcoming premieres in Sweden
In Scendatabasen you will find compiled searchable information for the professional performing arts in Sweden: theatre, dance, musical theatre, opera, circus, mime and performance art. Scendatabasen is operated by Teaterunionen.
Premieres in March.
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Updated website
We have now updated our website teaterunionen.se. The updated version includes a responsive layout and our hope is that this will make the website more accessible and easier to maneuver. Visit us at teaterunionen.se!
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Swedish performances on tour
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The Knowledge
Gunilla Heilborn
This is a story about nothing in the end but a bad sense of direction.
Some people know the direction they are heading and others don’t.
They just wander in a random way.
As the darkness is closing in and the wind is getting stronger.
Some people will be lost in those woods.
With no specific means of orientation.
They need a map and a compass.
Or a picture and a story.
March 5, Brut, Wien
March 6, Brut, Wien
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After Lazarus for Peridance CDC
Compagnie Jus de la vie Charlotta Öfverholm
Since the start of Compagnie Jus de la Vie 1995, Öfverholm has created over 25 productions, which has toured all over Europe, North and South America and Africa. Her work is physical dance theatre with depth, irony, brutality and humor.
March 12-13, New York, USA
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Marmalade
Claire Parsons Co
Marmalade is a delicious, tactile performance about meeting, mixing and blending. Mira and Viktor taste and feel in poetic movements and circus actions in an exquisite and visual experience with the audience.
Marmelade looks at the world through body, eye, feeling and taste in a room with fluffy skirts, soft circus and Fellini music.
Marmelade is choreographer Claire Parsons’ first dance production for young children from 2 – 6 years.
April 14-16, April Festival, Köpenhamn, Denmark
April 20, Vantaa Festival, Helsingfors, Finland
April 21-22, Ruutia Festival, Helsingfors, Finland
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And Then...
Claire Parsons Co
And Then... is dance and soft circus expressed in a polyphonic and imaginary world. Four characters meet to tell and present their story in different ways. Objects roll around, things move and the perspective changes through dance, speech and song. Someone talks about dancing bees, dexterous opposites and ingeniousness.
April 23, AND THEN..., Ruutia Festival Helsingfors
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Mongrel
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Mongrel is poetic, political, intimate and explores the meaning of “The Strangerâ€. Who is the stranger, and why don’t we welcome the strangers into our lives?
May 6-8 maj, Barcelona, Spain
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Flugo! Drömställe!
One morning in November, three clowns from three continents arrive at the Za’athari refugee camp in Jordan. It is an unfamiliar place that appears both inviting and threatening. The clowns see the never-ending rows of white, anonymous tents; the temporary homes of a hundred thousand Syrian children, young and old, escaping a violent and escalating war.
Flugo! is a performance inspired by the feelings, desires and dreams that the three clowns were confronted with in the shadow of the tents of the Za’athari camp. Together with the audience they investigate situations of seclusion and the urge for freedom, they dream about happiness and they seek community.
The audience is invited on a journey of discovery to a sometimes frightful, and sometimes beautiful dreamlike world.
May 26-27, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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Noetic
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Meet two masters from different generations. Noetic, a creation by Belgian Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui can contain everything from deep spirituality to comedy. The thing that interests him most is what happens between the dancers, rather than the movements of the individual dancer. Larbi’s roots are in the cultures of both Morocco and Central Europe. His artistic identity has been influenced by many years of involvement in the Belgian dance company Les Ballets C de la B, whose work belongs among the most exciting things to have happened within dance in recent decades.
May 12-13, San Sebastian, Spain
June 1-4, Paris, France
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Julia & Romeo
Royal Swedish Ballet
A romantic story in a brutal environment. A clash of people and power. A struggle between generations. Love, hate and jealousy. Who can win? The Royal Swedish Ballet performs Mats Ek’s compelling and daring version of the world’s most celebrated love story, envisioned by Ek as revelatory and, as critics agree, haunting.
June 1, 2, 3, 4, Kennedy Center, Washington, USA
June 10, 11, 12, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, USA
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Teaterunionen – Swedish ITI is the forum for co-operation and information within Swedish performing arts and the centre for contact and exchange across the borders. We are a member organisation for Swedish institutions and organisations within Swedish performing arts and arrange the Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts, which is the largest Swedish national festival and meeting.
Teaterunionen also handles various national and international theatre projects such as improving the international knowledge of Swedish plays, showcase Swedish performing arts for the international market and co-operations across borders. We also arrange national and international seminars and conferences.
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