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 ...

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

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN
Performance
Suzanne Osten returns to Unga Klara with a play by Gunilla Linn Persson.

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.

DO AS I SAY
Performance
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 ...

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN
Performance
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
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 ...

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.

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

Guldet
Performance
The Gold is gone and the mermaid is so sad and crying. 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 ...

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 ...

Into the Roots
Performance
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.

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 ...

JUCK
Performance
JUCK is a movement, JUCK is activism, JUCK is power, JUCK is not oops I did it again, JUCK is dance. JUCK is.

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

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.

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?

MITT JAG
Performance
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 ...

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, ...

MOLN
Performance
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
Performance
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!

ÖFA: MONSTER
Performance
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
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 ...

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE
Performance
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
Performance
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
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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

Six drummers på Operaverkstan
Performance
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
Performance
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
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 ...

SNÖ
Performance
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
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.

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

Sova vaken (Sleep awake) - Unga Operan
Performance
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
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 ...

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?

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”.

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

UNTZ BABY UNTZ – Dansstationen & MYKA
Performance
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 ...

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.

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.

Vill ha hund
Performance
Playful paws, kisses from a wet nose, soft cuddly fur.