Happy holidays!
Teaterunionen/Swedish ITI wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Biennial Year!
Demand for visa policy
DEMAND FOR FAIR VISA POLICY TOWARDS ARTISTS
We, the General Assembly of the International Theatre Institute, gathered in Yerevan/Armenia from 17 to 22 November 2014, are demanding a special and fair visa policy for artists.
As a global theatre organisation the ITI experiences very directly the obstacles for transnational mobility. For the 34th World Congress of the ITI in Yerevan, Armenia, the visa for the delegates from Congo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Sierra Leone have been denied.
The ITI expresses it’s protest to the Armenian authorities. We also protest against the ongoing exclusion by governmental agencies for artists to conferences, festivals or other events they are invited to.
To ensure a fair and appropriate visa application for traveling and touring artists the ITI demands to the European Commission, and to the decision making political bodies worldwide to create a special visa application for artists which respects their social and economic status.
Submitted by ACAR, the Swedish centre, the German centre, supported by the US centre and the Algerian centre.
Report from the ITI World Congress
During the recent ITI World Congress in Yerevan, Armenia, delegates from nearly 60 nations participated. The congress contained meetings with the general assembly as well as seminars, committee meetings and performances. The congress also presented the publication ”The World of Theatre” where every nation that is a ITI member presents its current situation for the stage performing arts.
The Swedish delegation took the initiative to a declaration about an international visa policy for artists. Read the declaration in its whole here.
Newsletter December
Read our newsletter for December here.
Report from Jönköping
Critical Stages, the web journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics, has published a review from the Biennial in Jönköping, 2013.
Read it here.
ITI World Congress
Keynote speaker at the general assembly of the ITI World Congress in Yerevan, Armenia will be Swedish composer Alfons Karabuda. Karabuda will use the UN-report “The Right to freedom of Artistic expression and creativity” as the focal point of his talk, a report he also participated in writing. Karabuda is the chairman of European Composer & Songwriter Alliance, and an expert on artistic rights and freedom of speech.
The Swedish delegation at the Wold Congress will consist of among others, Ann Mari Engel, deputy chairman of ITI Worldwide and chairman of the Actions Committe for Artists Rights, and Ulla Svedin, deputy chairman of Swedish ITI.
The ITI World Congress takes place November 17-22, 2014.
Swedstage is here!
November 2 means the start of Swedstage. Over 50 participants from 30 different nations will for three days experience the very best of Swedish performing arts for children, youth and adults. Day one we will see the beautiful Les Funambules and the epic Mats Ek production of The Emigrants.
See the full programme of Swedstage here.
Newsletter#November
The newsletter of November can now be read. Read it here.
Newsletter #september
Welcome to Swedstage 2014!
Swedstage is the Swedish showcase for performing arts and the opportunity to see and experience the very best of Swedish performing arts for children, youth and adults.
Next edition will take place November 2-5 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.
During the three days in Stockholm, we present selected performances. All the performances are able to tour and available for an international audience. As an extra bonus, we will also present a Pitch of Swedish Playwrights.
The registration fee for Swedstage 2014 is 400 Euro. The fee will cover free entrance to all productions, three nights of accommodation and breakfast, lunch and dinner during your stay.
See all information at www.swedstage.se.
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@scensverige.se or info@assitej.se.
See you in Stockholm in November!
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Upcoming premieres in Sweden
In Scentadabasen you will find compiled searchable information for the professional performing arts in Sweden: theatre, dance, musical theatre, opera, circus, mime and performance art. Scendatabasen is operated by Teaterunionen.
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Gorkij Park 2 Gunilla Heilborn
Gorkij Park 2 is a completely independent sequel to the 80’s thriller Gorky Park, a Hollywood story with the KGB in fur hats, filmed in Helsinki due to the cold war that was going on at the time. This show takes its starting point in the film and deals with forgotten utopias, social realism and a curiosity about what really happened at Fjodors’ party. Had some guests actually glitter around the eyes?
3-5 October 2014
Steiricher Herbst, Graz
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Marmalade Claire Parsons Co.
What is marmelade? Is it cherry, pear, figs, mint flavor, upside down, together or inside out? A delicious, sensory performance about meeting, mixing and blending. Mira and Viktor taste and feel in poetic movements and circus actions in an exquisite and visual experience together with the audience. Marmelade looks at the world through body, eye, feeling and taste in a room with fluffy skirts, soft circus and Fellini music.
Marmelade is choreographer Claire Parsons’ first dance production for young children from 2 – 6 years.
20-21 October, Haag, The Nederlands
24-25 October, New York, USA
26-27 October, New Jersey, USA
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Blocks Teater Tre
Which is more fun. Building up or knocking down? A happy story
about three characters and how they organise their world.
Blocks is a performance filled with slap-stick, humour and a touch of seriousness. Blue overalls inspire choreography that freely mixes the concepts of work and play.
For kids 3-6 years and families.
October, Haag, The Nederlands
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Knitting Peace Cirkus Cirkör
Knitting Peace is the name of Cirkus Cirkör’s big show, which opened in January 2013. With this production, Cirkus Cirkör continues to change the world through contemporary circus by asking the questions – Is it possible to actually knit peace? Can a worldwide knitting for peace movement make a difference?
17-19 September 2014
Düsseldorf festival
4-5 October 2014
Espace NoVa Velaux
18-19 October 2014
The Dr Anton Philipszaal and Lucent Danstheater
22-26 October
Circo Circolo, Hertogenbosch