Biennale programme
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a place
Performance
In MELO Collective’s latest performance a place the space is shared by the audience, dancers, musicians, singers and students.
Access, choice and collaboration
Seminar
Folkteatern Gävleborg/Scen:se, Estrad Norr and Oily Cart Theatre are in the beginning of a unique artistic collaboration that will run over the coming three years, with the aim to create the most accessible show pos ...
Book release - Sensory drama in specialist education
Social events
Theories and methods in sensory drama are published in book form with clear lesson plans in script form, ready to be used in the classroom.
Boys Don't Dance
Performance
Boys Don’t Dance is a poignant dance theatre show by acclaimed disabled director, choreographer and dancer Marc Brew, reflecting on his journey as a boy who defied society’s expectations to embrace his love for danc ...
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)
DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISABILITY; REACHING FURTHER - A PRESENTATION
Seminar
Rosie Heafford, Artistic Director of Second Hand Dance, presents a talk on digital engagement and developing access tools for young audiences. The activity will be presented with the use of audio visual and sl ...
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 ...
Fine Lines
Performance
The work of Roser López Espinosa is based on strong physicality, with a great passion for precision, delicacy, acrobatic elements and detail. A lively and playful physical universe of refined poetics and often a tou ...
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!
FREE ROOM TO PLAY
Performance
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 t ...
FROM CASTING TO PERFORMANCE - ACTORS WITH DISABILITIES FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
Workshop
Gain practical tools for the casting, rehearsal, and performance process of actors with disabilities. Engage with best practices for this work across a range of TYA content and actor disability.
From Representation to Authorship: Disabled Led Creation on Stage
Talks
Beyond “inspiration” stories: this seminar challenges stereotypical disability narrative centring disabled artists as creators and exploring how commissioning can support authentic authorship.
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, t ...
Ibland känns det som våra själar möts, jag och min publik
Seminar
The project Scen:se – about creating arts experiences for children and youth with complex needs
KEYNOTE SEMINAR - CREATING POSSIBILITIES AND CO-CREATING ARTISTIC WORK
Seminar
For children and youth with complex needs. Key note by Ellie Griffiths, Oily Cart theatre with special guest speaker Fiona Ferguson, Imaginate.
MELO Collective’s creative processes with playful tools
Workshop
Playful dance and movement exercises that require no prior knowledge; confidence exercises and creative collaborative exercises in collaboration with (live) music.
Moving from ”Play” to ”The Play” and back again: teachers and theatre-makers in collaboration
Seminar
The theory and practice behind various modes of access to performance for audiences with complex needs
PALS
Performance
PALS is a musical theatre work for young audiences by Ellen Renton about the friendship between a sighted girl and a visually impaired girl, using song, text, and movement to create an inclusive performance space.
Performative practices for neurodiverse children
Workshop
Towards Sensuous Ecologies: Performative practices and stage design attuned to neurodiverse perception and various physicality in immersive dance performances for young audiences
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 ...
Playful Tiger – to make a performance accessible
Seminar
About artistic decisions behind making a version of an existing production for a new audience group - children and young people who where profoundly autistic and mainly non-verbal.
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 ...
Rotviska
Performance
A sensory theatre adventure through tangled roots, rustling foliage, and everything in between. At the heart of an ancient tree, full of life and movement, Rotviska follows every shift in nature. Here, the old makes ...
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 ...
Shifting the Stage- Keynote with Caroline Bowditch
Talks
Keynote with choreographer and cultural leader Caroline Bowditch explores how to build a more inclusive performing arts sector for young audiences, highlighting collective responsibility and the power of disabled-le ...
Sound Symphony
Performance
Sound Symphony is a new, highly interactive, sensory performance, made especially for young audiences on the autistic spectrum and with profound and multiple learning difficulties. A playful journey through music, s ...
STORM
Performance
Designed for children and young people who are on the autistic spectrum, this enchanting, intimate production has been carefully designed to put audience members at ease throughout, giving them space and time to mov ...
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.
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 ...
The universal gold
Workshop
A workshop where ideas turn into action. Everyone has the right to art and culture on their own terms and through this workshop we want to help each other achieve the functional rights goals within culture.
Vems lilla mössa flyger
Performance
In Barnhans land, there are many whimsical characters, just like in real life. They wander around and keep themselves busy with all sorts of things—living and dying, starting secret societies, searching for love, an ...
Vintergatans bibliotek
Performance
Welcome to Vintergatans bibliotek, a sensory space where movement meets light and shadows meet sound. Here, movable shelves, tactile signs, and light shimmering from the books invite exploration. A moment together i ...
Walk and Talk: Diversity and accessibility in the performing arts for young audiences
Other
Walk and Talks facilitate an unformal meeting on a personal level and assist the flow of thoughts and creativity by walking. All festival visitors are welcomed to participate.
We followed The Tail
Workshop
In the project Svanslandet, Spinn explored and developed new methods to increase accessibility with children´s perspective.
What do we need next?
Seminar
An international delegation of disabled artists from Sweden and Scotland in conversation with Caroline Bowditch about the future of performing arts for children and youth.
Your Convention – A Workshop for My Convention
Workshop
My Convention is a performing arts performance by children, for children, about their convention. Together, we throw ourselves into the world of law in an experience where music interacts with movement and children' ...