Biennale programme
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5114 dagar
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.
8 kvadrat - Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Husby
Performance
The world can be contained in a small space. It can also be hidden in a story that starts here and now. And which shows the warm and tender relationship of two brothers. A story that overflows to all of us who are t ...
Anchors Away
Performance
Three little people with big dreams of sailing.
Artisten - Helsingborgs Stadsteater & Malmö Stadsteater
Performance
The red carpet is rolled out and the foyer smells sweetly of powder and audience expectations. Welcome to the magical world of the theatre, full of glitter, glamour and fabulous wigs! You are about to see a real wor ...
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 developm ...
BEYOND SENSATION
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 ...
Boll? Boll. Boll! - Mittiprickteatern
Performance
Boll? Boll. Boll! (Ball? Ball. Ball!) is a fantastical, playful and physical theatre show about a dream-like world where anything is possible. Where a small red ball suddenly can turn into a mouthwatering cake while ...
BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN
Performance
Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn Persson.
c/o UNG TEATER - AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACTING TRAINING
Seminar
Four persons from four countries meet in a conversation to elucidate and discuss views on theatre for youth and what place it could be given in acting education from an international perspective.
CREATING PERFORMANCES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES WHO HAVE THE MOST BARRIERS TO ACCESS
Workshop
Workshops for actors and dancers with Ellie Griffiths (UK) and Natasha Gilmore (SCT-UK)
De Passant
Performance
Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home?
DNA - Dansa nära anhörig
Performance
Four duets between four actors and their real mothers. It is a performance about distance, closeness, food, limitless love, sorrow, loss and renewal.
Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet
Performance
An immersive performing arts experience for all senses - together we explore a universe of materials whose unique properties bring our hearing, sight, movement and touch to life. A place for presence and community w ...
East Side Stories
Performance
"East Side Stories" is a musical based on the true stories and the many encounters with people living in the eastern parts of Helsingborg.
FANFICTION
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 ...
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 ...
Forever young - Regionteater Väst
Performance
The actors need the young audience's DNA to escape their mortality and, as if by magic, the audience's contract is both upside down and perfectly clear. Between skincare routines and karaoke, the three actors tackle ...
Förhör
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
Game Over
Performance
When ten years old Lisa is diagnosed with a disease, the kind you don´t get well from, her dad comes up with an idea. He develops a videogame designed to help Lisa and the family to cope with the worst of outcomes.
Glängtan
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.
Hela familjen
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.
Hemligt
Performance
A performance that aims to, together with the audience, approach the most private - the diary - and examine our innermost feelings and thoughts.
Hopp och hinder
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.
HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR
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 ...
Hugo – elak, blodtörstig och jättefarlig
Performance
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 his neat little house.
I´m her(e)
Performance
Ara has skipped school for a very long time now. Because she has been given a room of her own by Virginia Woolf. One billion followers on YouTube, Musica.ly and Instagram can see what she does in there. She can trav ...
Jag tänker på dig (I'm thinking of you) - Johanssons pelargoner och dans
Performance
A gentle voice in the headphones guides us through the library. On the basis of our own bodies, we move through the room in a choreography. Alone and together with others. With assignments we are taken into the wor ...
Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge
Performance
What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom?
Lyssnaren (The Listener) - Skuggteatern
Performance
With great openness and sincerity, it tells the story of a silent child's observations of the world around it. In the audience's headphones, the everyday tones and sounds that we easily take for granted take on new ...
Mamman
Performance
A show for social justice activists of all sizes. The little town where we lived only had one purpose. The factory.
MANTIS AND THE BEE
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 ...
Mellan oss
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?
MISTATIM
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 ...
Mitt kalas!
Performance
I Mitt kalas! firar Jago sin födelsedag. Jago älskar att fylla år, inte minst för att man som födelsedagsbarn får bestämma över alla andra.
MIZERIA
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN
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 ...
Oorlog
Performance
A balloon, slowly loosing it’s air. Little helicopters falling of a tree. A shower that weeps. An audience that shoots and three soldiers on roller-skates, speaking backwards with shock.
PÅ REN SVENSKA
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?
Papper - en ordlös saga om livet
Performance
Crumpled paper, folded paper, twisted paper, torn paper; a never ending cycle where figures appear out of nowhere, transform, perish - and are resurrected.
Pavlovs Tispe – ett slag ståuppteater (Norge)
Performance
In cooperation with director Kai Johnsen actor Camara Joof has created a performance with events from Camara´s own life where she sometimes fall short, sometime goes to far.
Pim & Theo (Danmark)
Performance
It’s a bloody mess in the streets and a moral mess in our heads…
Racist?
Performance
What is it to be a racist in Denmark or Sweden in 2016? Through Facebook the Afro-Danish performer Sara Traore has contacted people with racist beliefs.
Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten
Performance
Raised on Rhythm is a bodily total experience where dance, rhythm and music seamlessly intertwine to create a playful, explosive, energizing universe. From the audience's own heartbeat, the dancers take us on a wind ...
Rapport från ett omklädningsrum
Performance
Dreams, shower gel and sexual harassments – what is really going on in a locker room? What wellknown and untold stories are hidden among sweaty socks and wooden benches?
REPRESENTATION, CREATION AND INSPIRATION
Seminar
Glad Theatre has taken the initiative to create a series of international artist residencies in which they invite artists who inspires them into spaces of creation and exploration. Their first artist residency was c ...
Revolution
Performance
Revolution is a performance about hair, liberation and identity. It is a modern fairytale about the bond we have to our families, friends and loved ones.
Rhapsody in Black (USA)
Performance
Rhapsody in Black follows one man´s spellbinding personal journey through an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania to teenage experiments with crime and drugs to scholastic achievement ...
Riddare av tusen äventyr
Performance
An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement.
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 ...
Signalisterna
Performance
"The Signalists" are part of the three-year project named Stafetten, where Masthuggsteater collaborates with students at Sandeklevs school in Bergsjön.
Six drummers på Operaverkstan
Performance
Where does music begin, and where does it end? What does silence sound like? What do you hear?
Snattaren (The Snatcher) - Ung Scen Öst
Performance
Alejandro Leiva Wenger's clever play Snattaren (The Snatcher), directed by Martin Rosengardten, is a thrilling story with references to The Usual Suspects. It captures the audience from the first moment and keeps th ...
Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta
Performance
What is masculinity? Are there different types of masculinity? A stage performance in which we can follow a group of guys who try to understand themselves, each other and the world.
Stora drömspelet
Performance
Kliv in i drömmens egendomliga, fantasifulla och roliga värld!
STORA DRÖMSPELET
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Teater Smuts startar punkband - Motståndsstrategier i ett fascistiskt Europa
Performance
What happens to us when uniforms are replaced by polished politicians and who is responsible for the wave of fascist victories around Europe?
The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother
Performance
This high-energy performance exposes the inherent narcissism that is at the centre of motherhood and how this becomes a burden to the child embarking on adulthood.
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 ...
Törnrosa – den enda sanna kärlekens tid
Performance
After a hundred years of sleep, the beautiful princess is about to be awakened by “the one true love’s kiss”.
Tyst
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 developm ...
Ursäkta, skulle ni kunna svälta lite tystare, vi försöker faktiskt skapa lite ekonomisk tillväxt här borta!
Performance
Four people up in the clouds. Here, money is nothing but numbers.
Vahák
Performance
The performance Vahák - violence - takes place in a reality where colonial and homophobic violence act together.
Vår klass
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.
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 ...
VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA
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 ...
Vårt förakt för svaghet
Performance
Vilka är ni?
Performance
Both humorous and serious. A theatrical performance for all the family. The audience encounters characters from the plant and animal kingdoms of the forest in an absurd and poetic performance.
Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! - Hav-Anna Company & Teater Viirus
Performance
Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! is an exceptionally well-composed entirety and a place for sensory experiences, imagination and philosophising. The heartfelt and witty performance meets the audience with curiosity, empat ...
Sagan om Sverige
Performance
Sagan om Sverige is the meeting between the Swedish actor Jörgen and the young, Syrian poet Daniel.