The research conducted at Malmö Theater Academy takes place in the field of performing arts. We encourage critical perspectives and invite to workshops, seminars and lectures throughout the year that are open to the public.  Research team About our research Meet our PhD students Matter Journal Our Research and Artistic Development projects Research portal Explore Malmö Theatre Academy's research o

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Hills and Fields, city wide public program (2022) Gigi Argyropoulous' research interests include: urbanism and performance; activism and self-organisation; institutional critique; site-specific/political performance; collaboration/participation; curating and criticism; precarity and economies of performance practice; commons/undercommons.  Specifically, her current and upcoming research is develop

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Sofie Lebech Senior lecturer, head of subject Gigi Argyropoulou Postdoc Tanja Hylling Diers Doctoral student Sven Bjerstedt Professor / docent Edit Kaldor Senior lecturer Iury Salustiano Trojaborg Doctoral student

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KGSKS | Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts | 180 Credits Photo: Emmalisa Pauly. At Malmö Theatre Academy, we provide thorough training using practical acting tools. Our aim is to educate actors with extensive knowledge and great freedom both in their physical and cognitive expressions, who can meet all the diverse challenges presented by theatre today. The teaching is organised as a coherent whole fr

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Research at Malmö Theatre Academy covers all forms of performing arts learning.Here you will find our previous research projects, as well as the Artistic Development projects carried out by the educators at Malmö Theater Academy, so-called KU projects.  The Politicised Body in Times of Conflict and Crisis Sofie Lebech Handlingarnas sken: om litterär slitning i det dramatiska Annika Nyman Pedagogie

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Community Walk (2020). Photo: Benjamin Skop. PhD-projectCrafting material bodies – exploring co-creative processesAt the centre of this research lie costumes that are crafted to connect two or more people. The costumes – that I call connecting costumes – act as a medium to study co-creative process of doing, listening and thinking between designer and performer. In three artistic projects (AweAre

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Tanja Hylling Diers Doctoral student Iury Salustiano Trojaborg Doctoral student

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Malmö Theatre Academy conducts research in performing arts that aim to propose new knowledge, methods and techniques. We aim to create a dynamic research environment where artistic creation, research, and education feed each other in a critical dialogue. An environment where people committed to artistic research can meet on common ground and feel welcome. Malmö Theatre Academy provides a collegial

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Malmö Theatre Academy has a doctoral education programme in performing arts. Its emphasis is on artistic work that is developed through reflection, documentation, in-depth study of the student's own field as well as links to other fields of knowledge. The doctoral training takes place in a peer community together with postdoctoral and senior researchers. The studies aim to give the student the abi

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Sofie Lebech is a Danish performing artist, researcher and tutor working in the field between theory, research and performance. She did my artistic PhD at Theater and Performance Studies, University of Copenhagen, and is now a lecturer at the Theater Academy in Malmö.Lebech's artistic practice is research-based and she writes, performs and stages with a focus on reenactment, documentary strategies

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Sven Bjerstedt is a professor of music education with a focus on performing arts and improvisation, and he also serves as director of studies for postgraduate education in theater and as a supervisor for doctoral students in music education. Sven is a professional pianist, educated at the Malmö Academy of Music and active mainly in various jazz orchestras in Sweden and Denmark. In 1984, he started

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Woe, Edit Kaldor. Photo: Maciej Zakrzewski Edit Kaldor appointed as the Programme Director of the Master’s Programme in Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy in 2022Edit Kaldor (H/NL) has taught and lectured at (performing) art academies and universities across Europe, and has led numerous workshops at theatres and festival, among them at the International Forum at the Berl

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Foto: Hans Malm, for Dramaten In Dialogue with Society: Democratic EngagementJörgen Dahlqvist’s doctoral project explores how theatre can contribute to democratic engagement. The starting point was artistic probes investigating aspects of democracy: participation, deliberation and inclusion. The probes resulted in three productions presented at theatre institutions in Sweden. In Skapa Demokrati (C

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Photo Credit:© Mohammed Lehry, Fredrikstad, Norway, 2023. On Ancestrality and Regeneration: Performing Decolonial JourneysIury Salustiano Trojaborg is a queer diasporic artist-researcher and currently a doctoral candidate at the Malmö Theatre Academy and at the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University, Sweden. Her artistic research project On Ancestrality and Regeneration: Performing Decolon

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Stille Slag, Østerbro Teater. Foto: Søren Meisner Who Cares? – An embodied practice of caring and listeningThis research project seeks to investigate artistic processes in performantive projects involving lived experience set in a theatre institutional framing. The research evolves around how lived experiences are transformed into artistic material through a joined creative process involving non-a

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Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir Vanja Hamidi Isacson Jörgen Dahlqvist Charlotte Østergaard

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How Little Is Enough?Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative EncountersProjektet fokuserar på metodutveckling i syfte att utveckla teaterns transformativa potential. I centrum för forskningsplanen står en vilja att utveckla teatern som motkraft mot destruktiva, materialistiska tendenser i samhället och som katalysator för omprövning av livsvärden. Projektet syftar till att undersöka

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Jörgen Dahlqvist Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir Charlotte Østergaard Annika Nyman John Hanse

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Annika Nyman defended her doctoral thesis at the Malmö Theatre Academy in 2023 with the thesis Handlingarnas sken - om litterär slitning i det dramatiska. The dissertation primarily discussed a conflict in the basic premises of dramatic writing and the literary excesses that the writing activity invites. The thesis is that different kinds of narrativity - different ways of telling - produce differ

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John Hanse received his PhD from the Malmö Theatre Academy in 2022 with his thesis En ny generation lärostycken. Frågor till de införstådda.Today, Hanse is a guest teacher at the Theater Academy in Malmö and has directed a number of award-winning productions. He is also part of the independent theater group Banditsagor.Profile in the research portal John Hanse John Hanse in the Research Portal

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