Biennale programme

5114 dagar

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

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 ...

a place

In MELO Collective’s latest performance a place the space is shared by the audience, dancers, musicians, singers and students.

åååå snälla följ mig <3<3<3

A musical for children between the ages of 10-12 about fans, femininity and group belonging.

Adventures of Harriharri — Episode III - Harold Hejazi

In Adventures of HarriHarri Episode III, artist Harold Hajezi explores themes of belonging, racialization and alienation in a personal and humorous way. In the borderland between gaming, performance, and theater we ...

Anchors Away

Three little people with big dreams of sailing.

Artisten - Helsingborgs Stadsteater & Malmö Stadsteater

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 ...

Astons stenar - Teater Pero & Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester

A story about the little dog who wants to take care of all the stones he can find. Some are big and some are small. One is sad and another one has a cold. All of them needs to be taken care of. From a child’s perspe ...

Bak-å-fram-på

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

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

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 ...

Bounce!

Bounce! happily discusses the failure, an universal experience, an unexpected start for a new way of living.

Breath in the Wild - Shiraz Amar

Something we've never seen! Tents that dance, tents that move, tents that float and hug, tents that frolic, tents that are sad and happy - to the beat of disco music. It's exciting and crazy - here it's allowed to l ...

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN

Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn&nbsp;Persson.

Čázevulošnieida – THE UNDERWATER GIRL

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 ab ...

Chotto Desh (UK)

Akram Khan’s Desh was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike when it was first presented in 2011.

De Passant

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?&nbsp;

Djurens karneval

In Djurens karneval (Carnival of the Animals) a magical universe full of imaginative creatures awaits.

DNA - Dansa nära anhörig

Four duets between four actors and their real mothers. It is a performance about distance, closeness, food, limitless love, sorrow, loss and renewal.

DO AS I SAY

The performance is interactive and both the audience and dancers receive verbal instructions from a recorded voice, but who is actually in charge? Through abstract choreography and concrete stories, the audience is ...

Dunkers Kulturhus presenterar Mellan oss emellan - Kollaborativet

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

"East Side Stories" is a musical based on the true stories and the many encounters with people living in the eastern parts of Helsingborg.

Echoa (France)

French dance company Arcosm presents the highly praised ECHOA. The production reflects the company’s objective to build bridges between artistic disciplines and languages.

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN

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, ...

FANFICTION

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

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 ...

Fisken och Bintou – Flickan som fick alla att lyssna

A performance based on a traditional Senegalese tale about children’s right to be heard and respected. Includes live music, singing and interaction with the audience.

Forever young - Regionteater Väst

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

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

Four Go Wild in Wellies

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

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 ...

Future Beats

The earliest rhythm can be perceived as ritualized everyday occurrences: Calm and attention, satisfaction and protest, hunger and fulfillment.

Game Over

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

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.

Goldbergvariationerna - Kompani Giraff

Things cease to exist under the influence of play and manipulation. Equilibrism lifts our imagination as the two circus performers take us into a visually distinctive and magical world of chain reactions, where we m ...

Gregarious

Two sublime circus artists. The best of friends and the biggest competitors. Fiercely they struggle to be best, fastest, strongest.

Guldet

The Gold is gone and the mermaid is so sad and crying.&nbsp;Brave Måns is searching in the water, at the castle and deep down in the underworld. Måns meets Gods, hungry giants and a sad old dragon. But what is it th ...

HÄXOR

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? ...

Hela familjen

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

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

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

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

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 AM TIME, I AM SPACE – A SENSORY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

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 ...

International reception

The mayor of Helsingborg welcomes our international guests and shows the town hall. A drink and a snack will be provided by City of Helsingborg.

Into the Roots

Some of us left home of our own free will, while others were forced into exile. The performance portrays the nostalgia which we, for better or worse, associate with everything that comes from our roots. 

INTO THE ROOTS

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.

I´m her(e)

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

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 ...

JUCK

JUCK&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;movement,&nbsp;JUCK&nbsp;is activism, JUCK&nbsp;is power,&nbsp;JUCK&nbsp;is not&nbsp;oops I did it again,&nbsp;JUCK&nbsp;is&nbsp;dance. JUCK&nbsp;is.​

Kabaret de Poche

Paris, Montmartre, Moulin Rouge ...

Konferenz der wesentlichen Dinge

What would happen if you could chose your own family? What kind of freedom would it create? Who would take care of whom? 

KOREOGRAFIN

The Choreography is based on audience participation. Everyone in the audience gets a pair of headphones through which they will hear a voice telling them how to move, how to relate to one’s body and how to relate to ...

Koreografin

"Koreografin" explores the world through movement and investigates how the way we move affects how we perceive the world. What we think, see and feel.

LÅR

"LÅR" is a playful show, a tribute to the thighs where they get to glitter, giggle, be recognised,

LILLA SVANSJÖN

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, t ...

Listening Party

It's a teenage party and they cry if they want to. 

Lyssnaren (The Listener) - Skuggteatern

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

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

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 ...

me two / WE, THE CLIQUE - Low Air Vilnius city dance theatre

me two / We, the Clique is a bold, cheeky and intense performance where the audience is confronted with the authentic storytelling of the young performers. It is naked and stripped down. The personal testimonies are ...

Mellan oss

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

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 JAG

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 ...

Mitt kalas!

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

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, ...

MOLN

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 ...

Myriader av världar

Get up CLOSE and personal with art – for babies and toddlers aged 3-18 months. Allow your little one to experience art and explore every corner of the stage!

MYSTERIET PÅ GÅRDEN

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

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 ...

NE NE NE (NÄ NÄ NÄ)

Ne Ne Ne is a playful dance theatre exploration of a meadow in a forest. There is a tea cup and a fish and an umbrella hanging from the trees, and underneath the trees there might be caterpillars and perhaps also ev ...

ÖFA: MONSTER

ÖFA: Monster is a performance that invites you inside, a show and an experience  here monstrous emotions ravages, and where monsters makes room for dreams about alternative realities.

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

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

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.

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE

Orfeus & Eurydike is based on the story of Orfeus who in his despair after losing his beloved steps into the underworld to bring her back. The story poses questions about what it is to love and mourn. There is an ad ...

Oxytocin - Backa Teater

Tender and precise puppet theatre with a total focus on the young audience. The expressive puppets and the carefully crafted stage pave the way for approaching the most intimate and fragile issues. The puppeteers na ...

PÅ REN SVENSKA

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?

PACE – Below Zero

PACE is the first production of the Scandinavian made circus company Below Zero. The show is an intimate duett with the hand to hand couple Axel and Sara. It touches on the idea of relationships - status, power imba ...

Papper - en ordlös saga om livet

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)

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)

It’s a bloody mess in the streets and a moral mess in our heads…

PLAYFUL TIGER

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 ...

Propreté

Life is organization who works though a special set of rules.

Rabbinens katt

A music and puppet show about a cat that starts talking and the consequences of it.

Racist?

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

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

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?

Revolution

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)

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

An unreal campsite, a girl hike and a collective dream. PotatoPotato creates a show based on the Swedish Girl Scout movement.

SAAJVA, THE OTHER WORLD

A dance piece where the choreographer Ola Stinnerbom has developed an acrobatic dance technique on constantly staying and dancing upside down. In the older Saami Culture, the Kingdome of death was a mirror world dir ...

SALTBUSH

Saltbush is a plant that can be found throughout Australia in almost all Aboriginal lands, and so it represents a common thread between all the different nations of Australian Indigenous peoples. The narrative centr ...

Shakespeares hjärtslag

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 ...

SHEL WE

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 dancing for some of Aotearo ...

Signalisterna

"The Signalists" are part of the three-year project named Stafetten, where Masthuggsteater collaborates with students at Sandeklevs school in Bergsjön.

Sissy Bomb

A collective and anti-educational project about &nbsp;empowerment and och free spaces for a young audience and grownups (from 14 years and up).

Six drummers på Operaverkstan

Where does music begin, and where does it end? What does silence sound like? What do you hear?

Skymningsfåglar (Dusk birds) - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo

Using darkness as a stage, this performance is full of sound, life and movement. It's a beautiful and carefully crafted spectacle that awakens the imagination and sharpens the senses. Mysterious night creatures come ...

Snattaren (The Snatcher) - Ung Scen Öst

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 ...

SNÖ

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 ...

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

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.

So Sorry

A dance collage of popular culture, packaged in pink plastic. A playful, intense collage of pop culture’s expression and dance.

SOS - Stormar och strömavbrott – Shake it Collaborations

For the worrying kind as well as for those who never do, SOS – Stories of Storms is an equally playful and serious family performance where reality merges with imagination. The harp and cello guide us through stor ...

Sound Symphony

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 ...

Sova vaken (Sleep awake) - Unga Operan

Big emotions and charged musical drama in a handy format. The tour-friendly children's opera Sova vaken (Sleep awake) is about the dilemmas and existential concerns of a child of divorce. The child's cat also has a ...

STORA DRÖMSPELET

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 ...

Stora drömspelet

Kliv in i drömmens egendomliga, fantasifulla och roliga värld!

STORM

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

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

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

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

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.

The Boat

A young woman appears in your neighborhood. With great difficulty she drags a wooden boat through the streets. A dreamlike scene. She seems lost, tired and perhaps hungry as well?

THIS IS NOT A RELIGION – Bobbi Lo Produktion

In this piece, you will experience community with the collective through untamed dance. Be uplifted and indulge in togetherness and comfort. Seamlessly, structure and form change and your intuition is put into play. ...

TIGERN I MAGEN

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 ...

TIME LOOPS

Time Loops wants to find the extraordinary and remarkable in the everyday. Investigate community, location and time in relation to people, routines and landmarks in some residential areas in Skåne. Praise the power ...

Törnrosa – den enda sanna kärlekens tid

After a hundred years of sleep, the beautiful princess is about to be awakened by “the one true love’s kiss”.

Tråkmånsafton

A circus show about the most boring day of the year, the Humdrum Day.

Tyst

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 ...

UNTZ BABY UNTZ – Dansstationen & MYKA

The beats of the bass drum increase in intensity, the smoke machine fizzes and soon babies and toddlers are welcomed to their first encounter with the club space. It's a pulsating, expressive and inviting choreograp ...

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Four people up in the clouds. Here, money is nothing but numbers.

Vahák

The performance Vahák - violence - takes place in a reality where colonial and homophobic violence act together.

Vår klass

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

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

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

VÁSTÁDUS EANA - The answer is land - Elle Sofe Company

Yoik and dance come together in this all-round work of art, which is also a female manifestation of the nature we are entrusted to manage. 'Vástádus eana' begins outdoors as an external journey about nature and our ...

Vi vet var du bor

An electronic opera about freedom of expression. What is your teacher up to when he/she’ s not at work?

Vilka är ni?

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.

Vill ha hund

Playful paws, kisses from a wet nose, soft cuddly fur.

Whizz, whirr, bang, clang! - Hav-Anna Company & Teater Viirus

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

​Sagan om Sverige is the meeting between the Swedish actor Jörgen and the young, Syrian poet Daniel.