Published 31 August 2023 The new international Master’s programme in Performing Arts with a specialisation in Critical Practice and a social focus is a two-year, full-time study. The programme brings together innovative performing arts practices with critical reflection, and promotes expertise in initiating and building new alliances and arenas both within and outside existing structures. It aims

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Published 8 September 2023 © Ulrik Trojaborg During the Gallery Weekend at the Inter Arts Center, the short documentary "Voinha's Backyard" will be premiered and Iury will talk about her artistic work with C. Grace Chang. "In December 2022 I went back to my maternal grandmother Voinha’s first address in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, the same place where we had last met in September 2018, when I rec

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By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 21 September 2023 Welcome to an open lecture with Edit Kaldor, head of the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice. Edit will present her doctoral research project The Many and the Form. During the PhD she explored in various artistic contexts how lived knowledges can be articulated in and through live performanc

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Published 4 October 2023 In this research event, professor Shannon Jackson and curator Milena Högsberg discuss curatorial and performance methods that create critical dialogues with a specific landscape. The discussion is facilitated by Gigi Argyropoulou, curator, writer, practitioner and post doc researcher at Malmö Theatre Academy. Welcome to Inter Arts Center, Friday 13 October 17.30-19.00. No

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Published 12 October 2023 "Transformative Encounters" is a podcast series dedicated to the exploration and unpacking of the concept "performative encounters" within the realm of contemporary performance, how it can be understood and what its affordances are. This series forms an integral part of the knowledge dissemination deriving from the artistic research project How Little is Enough? that is c

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Published 6 November 2023 This public lecture and conversation explore the specificities and possibilities of using forensic approaches in contemporary live performance. It is the first in a series on Critical Performance Practices, and it’s organized by the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. With Stefanos Levidis – Forensic Architecture and choreographer Arkadi Zaid

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Published 13 November 2023 PlaySpace (PS) is a new international online Open Access and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critical perspectives on artistic research. In this essay, Iury analyzes how the artefacts of questioning and listening became resourceful in the procedure of excavating the personal and political reasons behind the migration journey her maternal grandmother Voinha embarked on

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Published 15 November 2023 Photo: Laura Stasane. Students from our international master’s programme and acting programme year 1 and 2 will participate in this years edition of Malmö Community Biennal. The Malmö Community Biennal return for its third time to shine a light on creative projects, productions and ideas that are being generated by and with local communities – challenging the division be

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Published 30 November 2023 Welcome to us the 18 December for a research event that focuses on how the individual and collective body becomes a politized body when partaking in demonstrations, riots, or activist art. We have invited visual artist Maj Hasager, performing artist Linn Hilda Lamberg and professor at Department of Gender Studies Helle Rydstrom to discuss how to approach the politicized

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By paulina [dot] nordling [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Nordling) - published 29 January 2024 Matter Journal will be released on February 1st, highlighting the interplay between art, pedagogy, and ecology. The journal is an outcome of the All My Relations camp, where artists and researchers shared methods and ideas. The first issue of Matter is an echo from All My Relations a three-day Eco c

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By paulina [dot] nordling [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Nordling) - published 23 February 2024 The participants in the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice have started their independent Work in the Field projects this Spring. The eight participants have partnered up with performing arts venues and will conduct artistic investigations, involving different communities and organizations in

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By filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - published 29 May 2024 Pernilla August has been appointed the new honorary doctor for 2024 at Lund University's Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. The honorary title will be awarded to her during a ceremony taking place on Friday, May 31 in Lund.On Friday, May 31, Pernilla August will participate in the ceremony in Lund to re

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By sylvia [dot] lysko [at] iac [dot] lu [dot] se (Sylvia Lysko) - published 18 September 2024 Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weeken

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By filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - published 15 October 2024 Photo from "Co-Creative Knitting: explorations of an improvisational practices". Theatre Academy PhD student Charlotte Østergaard participates in Stockholm University of the Arts' international artistic conference Alliances and Commonalities, 17-19 October, 2024 together with former PhD student Steinu

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By filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - published 21 October 2024 Large-scale installation with projection on the façade of the public library of two of the largest Buddha statues that were destroyed by the Taliban; a performative celebration of solidarity and remembrance. In March 2001, the Taliban blew up two of the largest Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan

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By filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - published 29 October 2024 Photo: Tuukka Ervasti Malmö Theatre Academy's MA in Performing Arts as Critical Practice is organizing the Intersectional Performance Pedagogies symposium, 4-8 November 2024. Part of the symposium is the open workshop Working with f(r)ictions – towards decolonial and speculative practices, with Sonya

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By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 7 November 2024 Photo: Fredrik Haller. The Nordic First St. John's Lodge Jubilee Foundation was established in 1867 with the purpose of supporting promising young people in their education in science, arts or crafts.This year, the scholarship has been awarded to Monirah Hashemi, Maryam Hashempour and Zsófia Rebek

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By Filippa [dot] jonsson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Filippa Jonsson) - published 12 November 2024 Sophia New is the new lecturer and tutor at the MA program Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. Previous to her role here, Sophia has been the course Leader for MA programmes at Wimbledon College of the Arts, UAL. We took the opportunity to ask Sophia New a few questions to

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By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 26 November 2024 Photo: Agnete Brun The Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, has been conferred with an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Fineand Performing Arts at Lund University. Jon Fosse has received great international recognition for his works

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Published 4 December 2024 For three weeks in November the students of the MA Performing Arts as Critcal Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy have been experimenting in the studios as prepara:on for their final projects in Spring 2025. On 5th and 6th December, they will be sharing some of the outcomes of these experiments and open up their processes. Below you’ll find the detailed schedule. The time s

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