"Idioms" emphasizes intercultural dialouge. American, Swedish and Vietnamese music and theatre meets in a unique artistic project.
Idioms is a production involving a Vietnamese actor from traditional cheo drama, an actor from the US and one from Sweden and the three performers in The Six Tones (two from Vietnam and one from Sweden). The project also involves two composers (from Vietnam and the US) and a theatre director and author (SWE). The project, called IDIOMS, has as its basic artistic methodology a practice of intercultural dialogue created by means of improvisation that is further discussed and structured within the group in a dynamic interplay between all artists.
Composer: Richard Karpen. Text + director: Jörgen Dahlqvist.
Musicians: The Six Tones
World premiere scheduled to september/october 2011. Will tour asia, europe and the US during 2011/2012.
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"Krig, hastighet! Parole in Libertá" at Malmö Sommarscen!
The Sonat Series are touring Sweden.
The performance are put together from the two standalone pieces Indy500:seklernas udde (Indy500:Cape of the Century) and The Art of War Noise.
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American composer Alvin Curran is doing a new work, Circus Maximus, that will premiere in Warsaw 2011
Alvin Curran is an American composer living in Italy. For decades he has been one of the leading figures in the development of the radiophonic hörspiel. Circus Maximus is a large scale project which is more of a staged installation for actors and musicians with electronics scheduled for autumn 2011. Circus Maximus is a commission from the EU-project Integra and Ars Nova.
World premiere scheduled to september 2011



Jörgen Dahlqvist and Kent Olofsson keep on pursuing the aestethics of the hörspiel. "De stränga anteckningarna" will be the next performance in the Sonat Series.
De stränga anteckningarna (The Harsh Notes) is the working title for a project that intends to explore the voice and will involve both actors and singers, building also on new experimental vocal techniques. The base of the narrative is the story of Orpheus and Eurydike. The text stretches out the moment when Orpheus turns around and let everything, both past and present, take place at the same time. It has also echoes of a war zone, where people are trying to survive after a big disaster of some sort.
Text + director: Jörgen Dahlqvist
Composer: Kent Olofsson
Art Work: Peter Jönsson
Actors: Linda Ritzén and Rafael Pettersson
The performance will also include four singers.
World premiere scheduled to january 2011

Acclaimed playwright Christina Ouzounidis and composer Kim Hedås are doing a new work within the Sonat Series
We are also planning a large scale production which may become central for the further development of artistic methodology for the SONAT-series. In a new piece two authors are brought together who both have long experience of working with theatre and music from multiple perspectives: Kim Hedås and Christina Ouzounidis. An important aspect of the project is that they are both taking part in the project as artistic researchers at Malmö Theatre Academy and the University of Gothenburg respectively. The creative process will be studied both by the artists involved as well as by external researchers.
World premiere scheduled to april/may 2011

Coming productions

Bengt Emil Johnson in memoriam
Festival for sound art/poetry in the memory of legendary Swedish poet/composer Bengt Emil Johnson
Sun-tue 15-17/8 in Malmö

De stränga anteckningarna
Composer: Kent Olofsson. Text: Jörgen Dahlqvist. Art work: Peter Jönsson
Premiere scheduled january 2011
Avaliable for tour 2011

Idioms
Composer: Richard Karpen. Text: Jörgen Dahlqvist. Musicians: The Six Tones.
Premiere scheduled september/october 2011
Avaliable for tour 2011-2012

Circus Maximus
By American composer Alvin Curran.
Premiere scheduled september 2011 in Warsaw.

T.B.A
Text: Christina Ouzounidis. Music: Kim Hedås
Premiere scheduled spring 2011.