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Read more about our Senior research projects and our Artistic Development projects – a short-term research projects conducted by teachers at Malmö Theatre Academy. Senior research projects Improvisation and intention: Toward a theory of improvisatory cognition Sven Bjerstedt The study of improvisatory action and the kinds of cognition at work in such action may offer valuable contributions to our
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-0/other-research-projects - 2025-12-13
MA in Performing Arts | 120 credits Photo: J. Dahlqvist, L. Severin The international Master Programme in Performing Art as Critical Practice with a social focus is a two-yearresidential, study programme. It is open to artists within theatre, dance and performance who want to embark on a research-led study and to situate their practices within the social, political and economic conditions of the c
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/education/master-programme-performing-arts-critical-practice - 2025-12-13
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. The 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 relevant and open institution in Malmö. Malmö Theatre Academy tra
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/about-us - 2025-12-13
Master Programme Director / Senior Lecturer Edit Kaldor appointed as the Programme Director of the Master’s Programme in Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy in 2022 Edit 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 Be
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/masters-programme-performing-arts-critical-practice/edit-kaldor-bio - 2025-12-13
Gigi Argyropoulou is a theorist, curator, dramaturg and practitioner working in the fields of performance and cultural practice. She holds an MA in Visual Performance and Time Based Art Practices from Dartington College of Art (UK) and a PhD from University of Roehampton (UK) focused on space, politics and performance. Gigi received the Routledge Prize for PSi 18 in 2012 and Dwight Conquergood Awa
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/biography-gigi-argyropoulou - 2025-12-13
Felicia Mulinari is a poet and playwright living in Malmö. Mulinari has previously worked as a teacher at HDK Valand and Kvinnofolkhögskolan in Gothenburg. Mulinari made her debut in 2019 with the poetry suite Det som inte kan utplånas, which in we-form portrays everyday racism and identity formation and resistance in Malmö. In her artistic practices, she returns to themes such as exclusion and co
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/bio-felicia-mulinari - 2025-12-13
The purpose of the Equality Board is to increase equality in the school and contribute to the development and improvement of the theater industry as a whole. We want to highlight issues related to all kinds of power structures and norms that we at the school feel may exist. The students can come up with suggestions for lecturers, workshops and completely different ideas on how to promote and incre
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/equality-board - 2025-12-13
We are an industry-oriented organization with an extensive local, national and international network in the education and performing arts sector.
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/collaborations-0 - 2025-12-13
Malmö Theater Academy's core values are rooted in the laws that a Swedish government agency must follow. Lund University shall be a place free from discrimination, with zero tolerance for harassment, sexual harassment and victimization. We also have zero tolerance for reprisals against those who report deficiencies or misconduct. Malmö Theater Academy has long been actively working on diversity, g
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/core-values - 2025-12-13
Final Performances 26 April - 24 May, full program Zsófi Rebeka Kozma Zsófi Kozma is a performance maker and performer from Budapest. She is currently working on addressing labor injustices through data visceralization and visualization and the role of the embedded artist. She is concerned about social inequality, the immigrant experience, collective action and the disappearing welfare state.She w
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/master-programme-students-graduated-2025 - 2025-12-13
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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As a designer, I consider costume to include wearable products that communicate something and iterative processes that simultaneously will be informed, influenced, and transformed by humans with their individual perspectives on making, wearing, performing, and watching non-human material, and by spatiality, and temporality. My artistic research derives from years of design practice where pre-set
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/phd-student-charlotte-ostergaard - 2025-12-13
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 - 2025-12-13
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-0/previous-research-projects - 2025-12-13
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 - 2025-12-13
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 - 2025-12-13
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/phd-student-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-0 - 2025-12-13
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 - 2025-12-13
