When: June 1 and 7-8, 19.00
Where: Inkonst, Malmö

Arrival cities: Malmö deals with migration in the shadow of the economic crises and the xenophobia that more and more has become the trademark of Europe. An arrival city is the city where migrants from rural and development areas from both in and outside the country try to make new lives for themselves. The arrival cities are often places of violence and human despair but at the same time also dynamic nodes where change can take place. Arrival cities: Malmö is trying to examine different aspects of the politics of migration, from the detention of migrants with the arrival of people coming into Schengen, to the nationalist politicians rage and rantings, to the safe houses where the refugee without papers try to hide from the authorities and finally when they are sent back to their native countries to an uncertain destiny. As always with Teatr Weimar language, power and identity are important points of departure in this performance. Duration approx 1.30-1.40

Concept: Jörgen Dahlqvist, Kent Olofsson, Johan Nordström, Linda Ritzén, Rafael Pettersson, Nils Dernevik and Sandra Haraldsen
Text, director and video: Jörgen Dahlqvist
Sound and music: Kent Olofsson
Technical coordinator and supervisor: Johan Nordström
Actors: Linda Ritzén, Rafael Pettersson and Nils Dernevik
Musicians: Ivo Nilsson and Johnny Axelsson

When: June 1-3, 19.00
Where: Teater Galeasen, Stockholm

The theatre group Avdelning 14 (Pia Örjansdotter, Sandra Huldt and Petra Fransson) in collaboration with SUTODA is playing Sara Tuss Efrik’s play Dance Macabre Piggies about love and its lack of expression. Or, rather, the distorted expression of love.

At Teater Galeasen in Stockholm.
Tickets at  www.galeasen.se

When: May 30, 13.00
Where: Studio Acusticum, Piteå

Where does art end and science begin? And what does Vivaldi have to do with modern music? Exploring the problem of creation is the concern of Fredrik Hedelin’s thesis, which is due to be presented at Luleå University of Technology. The flute concerto is the first of three of his thesis concerts, representing a di­alogue between music and philosophy.

The 50% seminar begins with a concert performance of Hedelin’s flute concerto followed by a discussion with two respondents.

See the webpage for New Directions for more information.

When: May 10-11
Where: Kulturhuset and DOCH, Stockholm

Tio masterarbeten från DOCH

DOCH is for the first time examining students from the master program in new performative practices. The program has some of the most interesting students in circus, dance, choreography and performance. They have all explored their respective practices during two years and they are now ready to present the results.

Participants: Ulrika Berg, Louise Bjurholm (i samarbete med Henrik Agger),
Emelie Garmén, Josefine Larson Olin, Anna Pehrsson, Sandra Medina, Sara
Ruddock, Anette Sallmander, Sanna Söderholm och Rachel

For more information please see the DOCH webpage.

Extended Opera Symposium – On Contemporary Opera and Technology
University College of Opera (OHS) & Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) invite you to the first International symposium on Contemporary Opera and Technology

When: May, 31st – June, 1st 2013
Where: KTH The Reactor hall (R1), Drottning Kristinas väg 51 & L1, Drottning Kristinas väg 30

Is Opera a mausoleum risen over bygone golden ages – constantly looking back on a forlorn high-point of canonical works composed during the 19th century?  Or can we understand opera as a creative paradigm based on the human voice and on innovation?

Extended Opera Symposium brings the subject of innovative technology in operatic practice to the surface, and invites composers, set designers, singers, stage directors, conductors, dramaturges, librettists and other professionals as well as opera lovers to take part in lectures and discussions on how opera is and can be extended with new instruments and technologies.

Keynote speakers (international):

• Arshia Cont, Director, Dep. for Research/Creativity Interfaces (IRC) IRCAM, Paris.

• Alex Nowitz, Singer and Composer, affiliated with STEIM, Amsterdam.
• Elena Jessop, PhD student, working w. prof. Tod Machover at MIT/Media Lab, Boston.
• Oscar Bianchi, Swiss/Italian opera composer, earlier affiliated with IRCAM.
• Nicola Bernardini, composer, Scuola di Musica Elettronica Conserv. C.Pollini, Padova.

and from Sweden:

• Jesper Nordin, composer and inventor of the Gestrument for iPad.

• Anna Einarsson, singer, composer and PhD student at Royal College of Music.
• Carl Unander-Scharin, composer and lyric tenor, Visiting Professor at University College of Opera and PhD student at KTH.
• Åsa Unander-Scharin, choreographer and director, PhD, Associate Professor at Luleå University of Technology.
• Anne Pajunen, musician, composer and performance artist.

In connection to the symposium, there will be performances of two new operas: Between a rock and a hard place by South-African composer Philip Miller and Sing the Body Electric! by the Swedish team composer Carl Unander-Scharin and choreographer Åsa Unander-Scharin.

There is a maximum limit of 100 participants, for registration and questions, please mail:
eo@operahogskolan.se or via tel: +46 8 546 270 34
Day 1 (May 31^st) – Starting Time 9:30 AM Lunch break 1:00–2:00 PM Ending 5:30 PM

Hanoi Sound Stuff, Vietnam
April 12, 20.00

Seven Stories: the female general

Seven Stories is a collaborative and experimental project in a collaboration with the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones with members Stefan Östersjö, Thanh Thuy (Malmö Academy of Music), Tra My Tran (Hanoi Conservatory), Jörgen Dahlqvist (Teatr Weimar), Marie Fahlin (freelance choreographer) and professor Richard Karpen, (composer and dean at the School of Music, University of Washington). The project will be presented in several forms (film, orchestra concerto with video, and as a video installation. The first performance, however, will be at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, Vietnam April 12 with the Six Tones and Henrik Frisk (laptop) and Tri Minh (laptop).

Welcome to presentations, lectures, performative lectures and screenings.

• Magnus Bärtås (SVE): “A Short Introduction to Microhistories”
• Michelle Teran (CAN/DE): ”Folgen”
• Behzad Khosravi Noori (SVE/IRA): ”Whisperism – The Field Study About Iranian Filmmakers”
• Suzana Milevska (MAC): ”Microhistories and the Internalized Macrohistories”
• Lena Séraphin (FIN): “The Don Quixote Complex”
• Lina Selander (SVE): ”Leninʼs Lamp Glows in the Peasantʼs Hut”

March 27, Mandelgren lecture hall, Konstfack, Stockholm.
LM Ericssons väg 14
Metro: Telefonplan

The new center for artistic research wlabs is now open. Its main purpose is to develop performing arts tradition in stage acting.

One of the things Weimar is currently working on is Arrival cities: Malmö. This performance deals with migration in the shadow of the economic crises and the xenophobia that more and more has become the trademark of Europe. An arrival city is the city where migrants from rural and development areas from both in and outside the country try to make new lives for themselves. The arrival cities are often places of violence and human despair but at the same time also dynamic nodes where change can take place. Arrival cities: Malmö is trying to examine different aspects of the politics of migration, from the detention of migrants with the arrival of people coming into Schengen, to the nationalist politicians rage and rantings, to the safe houses where the refugee without papers try to hide from the authorities and finally when they are sent back to their native countries to an uncertain destiny. As always with Teatr Weimar language, power and identity are important points of departure in this performance.

For more information, please see www.teatrweimar.se

From the institute for artistic research !KF:

We have started the rehearsals for our project on “infamous perspectives”. Should we try to, and how can we simulate perspectives we normally reject? Driven by this question, we will conduct a theatre experiment between 4th and 17th of March in Berlin. If yofu can imagine helping us by participating in the experiment, please let us know via experiment@artistic-research.de. Finally, we will invite scientists, lawyers and artists to a symposion from October 24th to 27th at Sophiensæle Berlin.

Our concept in collaboration with raumlabor berlin has won a competition for an exhibition for the Museum for Ethnology Berlin by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Our installation in the exhibition “Seeing Music” will be opened on 13th March.

For more info, see: www.artistic-research.de

February 27 –  March 2, 2013

The time for the colloquium is fast approaching. We are looking forward to an exciting program which starts already on Wednesday 27th February with a pre-conference workshop FACE to FACE by Professor Emilyn Claid and Performance Philosophy launching event “Conceptual Bring-a-Dish Party”.

The three broad questions we suggested as topics for the colloquium in the call for presentations were a) the relationship between performance studies and artistic research, b) performance as research and issues of participation and collaboration, and c) performativity of artistic research and the performative research paradigm. These issues will be addressed by our distinguished Keynote speakers:

•  Heike Roms, PhD, Professor in Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University: The Impact of “Impact” – Performing Artistic Research in the Ruins of the University?
•  Marin Blaževic, Dr. sc., Associate professor at the University of Zagreb: From `Shifts´ to `Shifting Dramaturgy´
•  Brad Haseman, Dr., Assistant Dean, Academic, Professor at the Queensland University of Technology/Creative Industries Faculty: Life Drama in Papua New Guinea: “It may be performative, but is it performative research?”

Organisers:

Esa Kirkkopelto
Annette Arlander

For more info: www.teak.fi