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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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/research-team/sven-bjerstedt - 2026-10-07
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 Berliner Festspiele and the Shanghai Biennale.
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/research-team/edit-kaldor - 2026-10-07
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 (Creating Democracy), participat
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/doctoral-students/jorgen-dahlqvist - 2026-10-07
Who Cares? – An Ethical Practice of 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-artists with specific lived experiences and trained artists wit
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/doctoral-students/tanja-hylling-diers - 2026-10-07
Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir Vanja Hamidi Isacson Kent Sjöström Jörgen Dahlqvist Charlotte Østergaard
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/affiliated-researchers - 2026-10-07
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students/steinunn-knuts-onnudottir - 2026-10-07
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students/annika-nyman - 2026-10-07
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students/john-hanse - 2026-10-07
Senior research project The Politicised Body in Times of Conflict and CrisisBy Sofie LebechThis research project departs from the question on how art can work in relation to conflicts and crises in our time insisting on art as something that is in its own sphere and at the same time inescapably a part of what can be described as the social/political in society. Emerging from Sofie Lebech's explora
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/politicised-body-times-conflict-and-crisis - 2026-10-07
Previous doctoral projects En ny generation lärostycken: Frågor till de införstådda.By John HanseThis thesis takes the play as a historical idea of a theater produced in relation to a political movement. Through participation in the collective creation of two theater performances, Violence & Pedagogy and Body & Punishment, the dissertation work becomes part of the learning of two social phenomena,
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/en-ny-generation-larostycken-fragor-till-de-inforstadda - 2026-10-07
Previous PhD project Handlingarnas sken: om litterär slitning i det dramatiskaAnnika NymanIn the research project Dubbla tragedier - om att låta en litterär slitning transform ett dramatiskt skrivande, Annika Nyman takes as her point of departure what she defines as a literary rift, which is about the different abilities of two disciplines to deal with narrativity. The traditional drama's focus on
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/handlingarnas-sken-om-litterar-slitning-i-det-dramatiska - 2026-10-07
Senior research project Improvisation och avsikt: Mot en teori om improvisatorisk kognitionSven BjerstedtThe study of improvisational acts and the types of cognition at work in such acts can make valuable contributions to our general understanding of the human mind and human action.An improvisational stance can be said to be central to all human action, not least to oral conversation. This project
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/improvisation-och-avsikt-mot-en-teori-om-improvisatorisk-kognition - 2026-10-07
Senior research project Pedagogies of symbiosisGigi ArgyropoulouExploring practices and histories of alternative pedagogies and activism in Scandinavia and beyond this research seeks to trace ideas of urban transformation through the formation of unlearning social environments and daily practices of support, play and organising. Proposing a pedagogy of symbiosis as critical in order to understand
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/pedagogies-symbiosis - 2026-10-07
Artistic Development Project Climate Crisis Representation AllianceJörgen Dahlqvist & Fredrik Haller The project developed concepts for a theatre format to communicate research findings aimed at behavior change to contribute to a sustainable food system. The ambition was to develop methods where the audience is given the opportunity to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of changing their
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/climate-crisis-representation-alliance - 2026-10-07
Artistic Development Project Studie i skådespelarmetoder kring visualitet inom teatern Henry Stiglund, Linda Ritzén & Jörgen DahlqvistThe aim of this project was to look at methods for performing and storytelling with video based on acting. The use of video and projections is becoming more common in a Swedish context and many theaters have video technologies to help directors and set designers wit
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/studie-i-skadespelarmetoder-kring-visualitet-inom-teatern - 2026-10-07
Artistic Development Project Genusmedvetet skådespeleriPelle HanæusThe project aimed to find out how 'gender aware acting' methods contribute to the Stanislavsky-based 'physical action method', in the acting program at the Theatre Academy and elsewhere.www.pellehanaeus.se
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/genusmedvetet-skadespeleri - 2026-10-07
Konstnärligt utvecklingsarbete Musikens betydelse i sceniskt skådespelararbeteMonica TyllgrenThe project intends to investigate and deepen knowledge about the importance and possibilities of melody in a scenic actor's work. Can, and if so, in what ways, a sung melody enhance the text / story and the scenic expression? The project aims to clarify the importance of music/melody and singing in an act
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/musikens-betydelse-i-sceniskt-skadespelararbete - 2026-10-07
Konstnärligt utvecklingsarbete Kollektiv intelligens och aktiv ömtålighetRichard KolnbyThe project aimed to explore pedagogical tools to mobilize artistic exploration and increase participation in the student group through reflective conversations. The project also aimed to develop/investigate how collegial collaboration can constitute a collective intelligence that dynamically supports and develo
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/kollektiv-intelligens-och-aktiv-omtalighet - 2026-10-07
Artistic Development Project Audience as participantsErik PoldThrough my own projects in my own theater Public Performance and through my teaching at the Theater Academy in Malmö, I have a strong focus on working with participatory performing arts. I have a particular focus on how to frame performing arts projects in a way where the role of the audience naturally becomes more active than the role
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/audience-as-participants - 2026-10-07
Previous PhD projects How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters (2024)Steinunn Knúts-ÖnnudóttirThe project focuses on methodological development in order to develop the transformative potential of theater. At the heart of the research plan is a desire to develop theater as a counterforce to destructive, materialistic tendencies in society and as a catal
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/how-little-enough-sustainable-methods-performance-transformative-encounters - 2026-10-07
