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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 and Theory as part of
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/bio-sophia-new - 2026-01-11
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 - 2026-01-11
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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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 developing around three key areas:Instituting and Perform
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/research-team/gigi-argyropoulou - 2026-01-11
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/research-team - 2026-01-11
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/education/bachelor-programme-acting - 2026-01-11
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/research-projects - 2026-01-11
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 – a moment quintet, Community Walk and Conver
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students/charlotte-ostergaard - 2026-01-11
Tanja Hylling Diers Doctoral student Iury Salustiano Trojaborg Doctoral student
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/doctoral-students - 2026-01-11
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/about-our-research - 2026-01-11
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/about-our-research/doctoral-education - 2026-01-11
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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/research-team/sofie-lebech - 2026-01-11
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 - 2026-01-11
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 - 2026-01-11
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 - 2026-01-11
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 Decolonial Journeys aims to investigate ways of using performance
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/doctoral-students/iury-salustiano-trojaborg - 2026-01-11
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-artists with specific lived experiences and trained
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/doctoral-students/tanja-hylling-diers - 2026-01-11
Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir Vanja Hamidi Isacson Kent Sjöström 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
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students/steinunn-knuts-onnudottir - 2026-01-11
Jörgen Dahlqvist Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir Kent Sjöström Charlotte Østergaard Annika Nyman John Hanse
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/research-1/former-doctoral-students - 2026-01-11
