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5114 dagar Photo: Ola Kjelbye

5114 dagar

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

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8 kvadrat - Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Husby

Jury selection

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 ...

Family

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

a place

a place

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

For pupils with learning disabilities

Funktion

Performance image, åååå snälla följ mig, Photo: Urban Jörén

åååå snälla följ mig <3<3<3

Jury selection

Performance

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

Musical

Perfoming image Buster Keaton på månen

BUSTER KEATON PÅ MÅNEN

Jury selection

Performance

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

Theatre

DNA - dansa nära anhörig

DNA - Dansa nära anhörig

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Theatre

Upper secondary school

Performance image Do as I say

DO AS I SAY

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower secondary school

Young Swedstage

Performance image Ett frö i rymden

ETT FRÖ I RYMDEN

Jury selection

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, ...

Preschool

Puppetry

Performance image Fanfiction

FANFICTION

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Forever young - Regionteater Väst

Forever young - Regionteater Väst

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Förhör

Förhör

Jury selection

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

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

Game Over, bibu 2016

Game Over

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Sign language

Glängtan Photo: Ola Kjelbye

Glängtan

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Lower primary school

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Goldbergvariationerna -Kompani Giraff

Goldbergvariationerna - Kompani Giraff

Jury selection

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 ...

Circus

Family

Lower primary school

Middle school

Gregarious

Gregarious

Jury selection

Performance

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

Circus

Family

Guldet Photo: Katja Tauberman

Guldet

Jury selection

Performance

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 ...

Opera

Hela familjen, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Hela familjen

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Middle school

Hemligt

Hemligt

Jury selection

Performance

A performance that aims to, together with the audience, approach the most private - the diary - and examine our innermost feelings and thoughts.

Theatre

Middle school

Hopp och hinder

Hopp och hinder

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Preschool

Lower primary school

Performance image Hear how quiet it is

HÖR SÅ TYST DET ÄR

Jury selection

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 ...

Listen

Lower primary school

Middle school

Theatre

Into the Roots

Into the Roots

Jury selection

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. 

Dance

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

I'm here show image, bibu 2018, Photo: Julia Lindemalm

I´m her(e)

Jury selection

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 ...

Theatre

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Jag tänker på dig - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jag tänker på dig (I'm thinking of you) - Johanssons pelargoner och dans

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Theatre

JUCK, bibu 2016

JUCK

Jury selection

Performance

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.​

Dance

koreografin performance image, Photo: Johan Sundén

Koreografin

Jury selection

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.

Dance

Middle school

Lower secondary school

Young adults

performance image LÅR, bibu 2018, Photo: Graham Adey

LÅR

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Lower secondary school

Middle school

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Lyssnaren - Skuggteatern

Lyssnaren (The Listener) - Skuggteatern

Jury selection

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 ...

Family

Lower primary school

Preschool

Theatre

performance image mamman, bibu 2018, Photo: Henrik Dahl

Mamman

Jury selection

Performance

A show for social justice activists of all sizes. The little town where we lived only had one purpose. The factory.

Theatre

Puppetry

Middle school

Mellan oss

Jury selection

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? 

Dance

Theatre

Preschool

Performance image Mitt jag

MITT JAG

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Middle school

Perfomance image Mizeria

MIZERIA

Jury selection

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, ...

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Young adults

Performance image Mizeria

MOLN

Jury selection

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 ...

Circus

Young Swedstage

performance image myriader av världar, bibu 2018, Photo: Markus Gårdner

Myriader av världar

Jury selection

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!

Opera

Dance

persons in a monster suit

ÖFA: MONSTER

Jury selection

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.

Dance

Performance image Ögonvittnen - Lea & Stefan

ÖGONVITTNEN - LEA & STEFAN

Jury selection

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 ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image Orfeus & Eurydike

ORFEUS & EURYDIKE

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Oxytocin - Backa Teater

Oxytocin - Backa Teater

Jury selection

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 ...

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Puppetry

Young adults

Young Swedstage

Performance image På ren svenska

PÅ REN SVENSKA

Jury selection

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?

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Performance image, Papper - en ordlös saga om livet, bibu 2018, Photo: Petra Hallberg

Papper - en ordlös saga om livet

Jury selection

Performance

Crumpled paper, folded paper, twisted paper, torn paper; a never ending cycle where figures appear out of nowhere, transform, perish - and are resurrected.

Mime

Puppetry

Theatre

Performance image, Propeté, bibu, 2016

Propreté

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Rabbinens katt

Rabbinens katt

Jury selection

Performance

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

Puppetry

Family

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Raised on rhythm - Unga Dramaten

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

English

Lower secondary school

Theatre

Rapport från ett omklädningsrum, bibu 2018, Photo: Chrisander Brun

Rapport från ett omklädningsrum

Jury selection

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?

Theatre

Revolution, bibu 2016

Revolution

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Riddare av tusen äventyr

Jury selection

Performance

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

Theatre

Lower secondary school

signalisterna, bibu 2018, Photo: Jonas Jörneberg

Signalisterna

Jury selection

Performance

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

Theatre

Dance

Preschool

Lower primary school

Sissy Bomb, show image, bibu 2018, Photo: RES

Sissy Bomb

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Six drummers på Operaverkstan, bibu 2016

Six drummers på Operaverkstan

Jury selection

Performance

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

Try

Musical

Theatre

Skymningsfåglar (Dusk birds) - Katja Seitajoki & Arena Baubo

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Upper secondary school

Lower secondary school

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Snattaren - Ung Scen Öst

Snattaren (The Snatcher) - Ung Scen Öst

Jury selection

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 ...

Family

Middle school

Theatre

Performance image Snö

SNÖ

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Preschool

Puppetry

Young Swedstage

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Lower secondary school

Upper secondary school

So Sorry

So Sorry

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Upper secondary school

Sova vaken (Sleep awake) - Unga Operan

Jury selection

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 ...

Family

Lower primary school

Opera

Performance image Stora drömspelet

STORA DRÖMSPELET

Jury selection

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 ...

Family

Preschool

Puppetry

Theatre

Show image, bibu 2016

Teater Smuts startar punkband - Motståndsstrategier i ett fascistiskt Europa

Jury selection

Performance

What happens to us when uniforms are replaced by polished politicians and who is responsible for the wave of fascist victories around Europe?

Theatre

Musical

Performance image, Törnrosa, bibu 2018, Photo: Sandra Lee Pettersson

Törnrosa – den enda sanna kärlekens tid

Jury selection

Performance

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

Theatre

Tråkmånsafton

Tråkmånsafton

Jury selection

Performance

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

Circus

Preschool

Lower primary school

Föreställningsfoto med gul textplatta med texten Untz baby untz - Dansstaionen & MYKA

UNTZ BABY UNTZ – Dansstationen & MYKA

Jury selection

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 ...

Dance

Family

Preschool

Performance image, Ursäkta, bibu, 2016

Ursäkta, skulle ni kunna svälta lite tystare, vi försöker faktiskt skapa lite ekonomisk tillväxt här borta!

Jury selection

Performance

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

Theatre

three persons holding hands

Vahák

Jury selection

Performance

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

Dance

Theatre

Musical

Vår klass, bibu 2016

Vår klass

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

English

Performance image Våra viktigaste vuxna

VÅRA VIKTIGASTE VUXNA

Jury selection

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 ...

Lower primary school

Theatre

Föreställningsbild

Vårt förakt för svaghet

Jury selection

Performance

Theatre

Vilka är ni?

Vilka är ni?

Jury selection

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.

Theatre

Lower primary school

Middle school

Vill ha hund

Jury selection

Performance

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

Puppetry

Preschool

Family