Read more about our finished research projects and PhD theses from doctoral students who have graduated from Malmö Theatre Academy. Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir: How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters, 2024Annika Nyman: The Appearances of Actions: On Literary Friction in the Dramatic, 2023John Hanse: A new generation of learning plays, 2022 

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Who Cares? – An embodied practice of caring and listening This 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-artists with specific lived experiences and traine

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/phd-student-tanja-hylling-diers-0 - 2025-05-13

Doctoral research projects Crafting Material Bodie – radical co-creation in the field of costume design My research aims to explore costume as a polyphone process between agents, positions, disciplines, perspectives, epistemologies, methodologies, and other. I will study how costume can become co-creational processes of ‘coexisting’ and ‘becoming-with’ with others (participants, collaborators, co-

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/phd-student-charlotte-ostergaard-0 - 2025-05-13

How Little Is Enough? - Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters Within the project Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir will explore sustainable methods of creating transformative encounters with an audience through participatory and site-specific artworks, with a particular focus on how minimal and sustainable the framework for the encounter can be. The project is rooted in Steinunn

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Based on a True Story: In Between the Fictive and the Documentary The research project has three parts; the first is about the relationship between documentary and fiction. How can we create artistic methods that develop the performing arts in terms of material collection, concept development and sense making? The second part is linked to the same question and deals with the exploration of scenic

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/phd-student-jorgen-dahlqvist - 2025-05-13

How effective is it to tackle the concept of sustainability within the European performing arts context, without also dealing with the burden of Europe’s colonial past, focusing on narratives produced in the liminal zones, specifically those zones that a life of migration entails? My doctoral research project On Ancestrality and Regeneration: Performing Decolonial Journeys aims to investigate ways

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/phd-student-iury-salustiano-trojaborg-0 - 2025-05-13

At Malmö Theatre Academy, we educate the actors, playwrights and conceptual performing artists of the future. As of autumn 2023, we offer an international master's program in performing arts as critical practice. Photo: Jenny Baumgartner Bachelor’s Programme in Acting KGSKÅ | Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts | 180 Credits Bachelor’s Programme in Dramatic Writing KGDSK | Degree of Bachelor of Fine A

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We are an industry-oriented organization with an extensive local, national and international network in the education and performing arts sector. Scenkonstbryggan "The Performing Arts Bridge" is a course that aims to awaken curiosity and interest in performing arts and performing arts education among people who have little or no experience in theater. Kulturskoleklivet Opportunities to add a pedag

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Malmö Theatre Academy is an institution for training and research within theatre and performing arts. The academy is a part of Lund University’s Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Anna Wallin graduation project 2023, photo by Emmalisa Pauly. Malmö Theatre Academy has a high level of ambition and aims to be a leading education and research institution in the field of theatre, as well as a relevan

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Scenkonstbryggan is a course that aims to awaken curiosity and interest in performing arts and performing arts education among people who have little or no experience in theater. The course started in spring 2023 and a continuation course is now being held in the fall, where participants are further challenged and given the chance to immerse themselves in theater. This fall's workshops are led by

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Photo: Heike Steinweg Sophia New was the Course Leader for MA Performance: Theatre Making and MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice at Wimbledon College of the Arts, UAL from 2022 to end of 2023. Between 2020-2022 she shared a Guest Professorship with Daniel Belasco Rogers, with who she co-founded the performance company plan b, they taught and curated on the Interdisciplinary Art a Practice

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/bio-sophia-new - 2025-05-13

MA in Performing Arts | 120 credits Here you find important deadlines and information about applying to the MA in Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. Applications are made in two stepsThe application period opens on 15 October 2024 and closes on 15 January, 2025:1. Register on the programme at universityadmissions.seCheck that you have submitted the correct paperwork - s

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/instructions-application-ma-performing-arts-critical-practice - 2025-05-13

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 ArtCollab A platform for collaboration between art, scienc

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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

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students/charlotte-ostergaard - 2025-05-13

Tanja Hylling Diers Doctoral student Iury Salustiano Trojaborg Doctoral student

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