Welcome to Swedstage Online 2020

This edition of Swedstage 2020 becomes Swedstage Online and will take place November 9, 2020. There, we will show the width of Swedish performing arts through a number of short clips from current selected productions, as well as talks. Meet the selected choreographers, actors and directors and listen to the panel discussion Create or Decrease – a conversation about freedom of speech and democracy.

Selected performances 2020
BamBam Frost – So Sorry
Helsingborgs Stadsteater – A Dreamplay
Kompani Giraff – Kiseldalen
OR/ELLER – WEB
Orionteatern – In Search of Lost Time
Royal Swedish Opera/Young at the Opera – Klaus Nomi
Unga Klara – They Will Drown in Their Mothers´ Tears

Virpi Pahkinen Dance Company – Deep Time
Artistic advisors 2020
Theresa Benér
Swedish theatre critic, author, specialising in contemporary European theatre. Chairman of The Swedish Association of Theatre Critics.

Sara Bergsmark
Producer at MDT (Modern Dance Theatre), an international co-production platform
and a leading venue for contemporary choreography.

Pelle Hanaeus
Swedish actor, director and pedagogue. He has been Artistic Director of Regionteater Väst and President of Clowns without Borders. He lectures and gives workshops in
gender aware performance for theatres and universities.
Swedstage is financed by the Swedish Institute, the Swedish Arts Council, the City of Stockholm, Region Stockholm and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.