We´ve finally released the tickets for all the performances and seminars at the Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts! We can´t wait to see you in Norrköping 23rd-28th May. If tickets to your most desired performances run out, don´t despair, things can often work out at the festival when people return and trade tickets.
We proudly present the international guest performances at the Biennal! The world famous Compagnie Marie Chouinard from Canada will come with a full evening performance which will be played twice on the main stage of the Louis de Geer Concert and Congress Hall. The first piece is this iconic choreographer´s reinterpretation of Rite of Spring. The other piece is Henri Michaux: Mouvements, based on a book by Michaux with poetry and flowing images.
We also offer a guest appearance by acclaimed Icelandic Kridpleir Theater Group. The show Crisis Meeting deals with an attempt to be transparent in working on an application to the Art´s Council. The performance is described as a blend between anarchy, sit-com and Samuel Beckett.
I´m currently in Cardiff for a European conference and general assembly with Europe on the Move. We are representatives from 14 countries here, and the very generous Wales Art´s Council are hosting us.
Ann Mari Engel, who is Sweden's board member of the International Theater Institute, just took part in a meeting in Moscow, planning the ITI World Congress in Segovia in Spain in July. The congress should have been held last year in Brazil, but was canceled because of the shaky political situation.
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Our fantastic project manager and communicator Lovisa Björkman is soon going on parental leave, and Johanna Broman will take her place for a while. Johanna has a deep knowledge of the industry and we are delighted that she has chosen to come to us. She´s worked at Riksteatern, Folkoperan, the Museum of Modern Art, Jupither and Josephsson, among others.
We are very happy for the response from the Arts Council and the City of Stockholm regarding Proud Performing Arts (Stolt Scenkonst) at Pride! We are thrilled to get to do this mini-performing arts festival with shows and seminars again in Pride House in Stockholm, and this year broaden the geographical perspective to Malmö.
Ulricha Johnson
Managing Director
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Jury selected performances at the Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts
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Aquarium
Alice lies awake at night worrying about the escalating climate crisis. Dante is homeless and thinks primarily about how he will manage to scrape enough money together for shelter and food. Thankfully, the life coach, Ewa, has the solution to all of their problems. Or does she?
Akvarium is a new one act Swedish chamber opera created by the poet Naima Chahboun, known for her explosive use of language... Read more.
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The Arrival
Teateri
A magical performance about making a new start.
Following a freezing boat trip, he arrives in a strange city carrying only a suitcase and a photograph of his family tucked away in his breast pocket. In the struggle for survival, he had to leave his wife and ten-year-old daughter behind. Now he finds himself alone in a world where the language is incomprehensible and the social codes difficult to decipher... Read more.
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The Liberation Front
Örebro länsteater
Anna has been hired as a temp at the newspaper in Örebro and has reluctantly moved back in with her mother. Her hometown is shaken by a series of violent sexual assaults and rapes and, in her role as a journalist, Anna encounters the fear and imposed limitations experienced by the women of the city. Why should they be the ones to stay at home? Why has the perpetrator not been found?... Read more.
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Breaking Point
Alexander Weibel Weibel
Using a slack-rope, the performance explores the tensions arising from the audience’s expectations and relationships to different materials and everyday objects. Through the help of the audience, the prop is created during the performance and tested until it breaks... Read more.
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The dissenting opinion
Regionteater Väst
Den avvikande meningen is a classroom based performance about fascism. The audience is invited to follow its development from the French Revolution to the birth of fascism in 1919 and onwards through the turbulence of the 20th century... Read more.
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Life lived backwards
Dramaten& and Osynliga Teatern
In 2015, 162,877 people applied for asylum in Sweden, people who do not currently know whether they will be allowed to stay. One of them was Marwan Arkawi. Through this performance, the audience is given a unique insight into his journey.
Det levda baklänges makes use of Virtual Reality-glasses, 3D-sound and a personal encounter in an attempt to make the arcane comprehensible. It becomes a modern drama in two acts: in the first act, the audience sees the world through the eyes of Marwan; in the second act, they meet him in a live encounter... Read more.
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Everything Remains
Everything Remains is part two in a trilogy exploring the potential of a weak body. It is a choreography designed for a tired body. A minimalistic and poetic encounter with an autobiography made up of physical transformations of gender, pain and limitations. With her archive of memories and experiences, Juli Apponen is utilised as subject matter. Everything in the performance stems from concrete experiences of operations, chronic pain and the physical body as an interchangeable and editable material... Read more.
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Fäboland*
Riksteatern
Thelma and Louise retold as a Swedish folktale, where lady-girls are uninhibited rulers and songs are used as weapons against the dangers of the forest.
Fäboland is a folk music cabaret dressed in home woven handicraft.
Every summer young girls, women and old ladies travelled up to the cottages in the forest. It wasn’t a holiday. They were there to work hard, but also to socialise and have a good time... Read more.
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(im)perfect choreographies #1
c.off
(im)perfekta koreografier is a performance in which different, distinct voices dance in a polyphonic conversation.
Guided by sudden twists and prolonged pauses, this danced conversation allows for each particular movement to contemplate its own peculiar meaning. Separated yet joined, different spaces, real and fictitious, are formed out of contagious humour... Read more.
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Period
Teater Tamauer
A performance that breaks taboos surrounding the menstruating body!
Mixing humour and seriousness, Mens shines a light on the obvious and questions the things taken for granted when it comes to menstruation. It investigates menstruation as a symbol of the transition into adulthood and how a menstruating body is rendered a loser in a patriarchal society... Read more.
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The Missionary
Malin Hellkvist Sellén
Missionären is about lesbian Christian missionaries in Västerbotten, an area in northern Sweden, during the first half of the 20th century. With this performance, Malin Hellkvist Sellén wants to demonstrate how the missions enabled women to claim positions within public forums, as well as created possibilities for intimacy with one another. Missionären arose from fact and fiction in equal measure and allows the audience to encounter a throng of women who had... Read more.
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People Respect Me Now
Lumor
No one had picked up on the signals. A faltering community is trying to come to terms with a terrible event, in a world where emotions are not allowed to be felt and dreams do not come true. Through interrogations, conversations and diaries, we are able to peek in at the everyday lives of the perpetrators, a few unsuspecting weeks before catastrophe struck... Read more.
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The Parlour
Sweden’s Radio Drama
Farideh thinks people should be grateful for the protection they receive in the new country. One should appreciate generosity and run as far away as possible from negative people. Her two sons are of a different view on the matter and are agreed that their Mum doesn’t understand how things really are. That aside, the brothers are very different – Arash is working in the Mum’s hair salon, while Farid dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian... Read more.
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Shapes of States
Stina Nyberg
We are seated on the first row in a large square room with a black floor designed to host performances. In the middle of the room hangs a white drape painted with long black lines. The drape swings slowly from side to side, dreamlike, as if there was a breeze on stage. A soft light floods across the floor, spilling over onto the first three rows. The people seated in the back are wondering what I am taking about, my voice reaching them from the front. I am here to interpret a dance performance for you, a tale about that which is visible on stage, but also a story in itself... Read more.
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Wuthering Heights
moment:teater
The very title of this play contradicts and resists the short format of the performance. With a running time of only 12 minutes and a maximum audience of just 4 people, Svindlande höjder shows how, sometimes, small is best. Almost 200 years after the book was written, this story continues to fascinate... Read more.
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Goldberg Variations – ternary patterns for insomnia
Andersson Dance & Scottish Ensemble
Eleven musicians and five dancers delve into one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved pieces of music... Read more.
The show will unfortunately not be able to play live during the Biennial
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