Performance theatre youth

Transforma
Transforma is a non-profit organization which produces dance performances and strives 
for development of and cooperation between various forms of artistic expression. The 
group was founded when Louise Kvarby gathered eight dancers in the performance Open 
Space, 1993 in Stockholm. Louise has since worked as artistic director, producer and 
choreographer for Transforma. Transforma has participated in international festivals in 
Nicaragua, France, Italy and Ukraine.
Reactive States is a dance performance which takes you on a journey through the worlds 
of the natural sciences. Transforma has in the performance explored how the bodies of 
the dancers can control computer-generated projections, as a way to make technology; 
art and dance meet each other. The performance has mainly been targeted for youth 
in the ages of 13 and up, but there is also an adaptable version of the performance 
with projections and dance material that can be adapted to different sites and sizes of 
performance spaces.
Contact
Louise Kvarby
[e-mail]
www.transforma.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               
DANCE
               MUSIC               PERFORMANCE               THEATRE               YOUTH

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Photo: Jesper Papmehl-Dufay.

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Photo: Jonas Jörneberg.

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TURteatern 
/Counterforce Production CP
TURteatern is a theatre located outside Stockholm. The acronym stands for Teatern Utan 
Reaktionärer (Theatre Without Reactionaries) and describes an experimental, border-
crossing and political theatre for children, youth and adults. Counterforce Production 
CP is a newly started collective consisting of writers, journalists, stage artists, activists, 
photographers, artists and more.
Valerie Solanas´ SCUM Manifesto is one of the history of literature’s most powerful texts. 
It is world famous, infamous and yet unknown. It is hated and loved, often without even 
having been read. For Turteatern it is something they cannot escape. It is a confrontation, 
heavy exaggerations, crystal clear truths, feverish utopias, deep insights, parody, love 
and rebellion. It allows itself to be high and low, possible and impossible. The SCUM 
Manifesto has been the year’s most debated and acclaimed performance in Sweden.
Contact
Lisa Ewertson
[e-mail]
www.turteatern.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               DANCE               MUSIC               PERFORMANCE               
THEATRE
               YOUTH

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Tzeitel
The trio Tzeitel will captivate you with everything from fast, dazzling improvisations to 
the most sensitive of melodies: tales of joy, hope, love and despair. Tzeitel’s repertoire 
comprises instrumental music and beautiful, wistful songs. The group blends traditional 
klezmer music with newly composed material of its own, music with a strong personality 
yet with a truly universal message. The group tours frequently in Sweden, giving 
memorable concerts to audiences all over the country. 
In 2007, Tzeitel released a well-received first album and is currently working on the 
follow-up. Tzeitel comprises: Anna Cochrane – violin and viola, Christopher Andersson 
Bång – double bass and Sara Fridholm – accordion, piano and vocals.
Contact
Anna Cochrane
[e-mail]
www.tzeitel.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               DANCE               
MUSIC
               PERFORMANCE               THEATRE               YOUTH

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Photo: Anna Rut Fridholm.

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Photo: Sara P Borgström.

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Unga Klara
Unga Klara was founded in 1975 by Suzanne Osten, artistic director, with a focus on 
the conditions of children and young people. Unga Klara’s explorations of dramatic art 
proceed from the assumption that a young audience is naturally entitled to the same high 
level of artistic quality as an adult audience. Based on the conviction that we can best 
express a positive outlook on life by speaking truthfully about its complexity, Unga Klara 
has tackled serious topics in a playful form. 
UM – Unaccompanied Minors, by Ann-Sofie Bárány and director Suzanne Osten, in co-
operation with Riksteatern. A theatre journey for children and adults, from 6 years.
Children fly between their divorced parents. To and from, from and to. Mom is in one city, 
dad in another. Travelling to dad is the same as travelling from mom. And vice versa. 
Longing for home, but how? I have one home, two homes… many homes.
The longing for freedom can be a longing to get away from constraints. But can true 
freedom be the ability to do something that brings meaning to life?
Contact
Jonas Kahnlund
[e-mail]
www.ungaklara.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               DANCE               MUSIC               PERFORMANCE              
 THEATRE               YOUTH

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Velodrône
Velodrône (formerly called H3FK) has been a leading constellation in Sweden in the 
world/jazz genre for almost ten years. The septet consists of some of Sweden’s finest 
musicians and has played with Sweden’s leading international artists such as Nils 
Landgren, Victoria Tolstoy, Koop, Rigmor Gustafsson, Georg Riedel etc.
With Fredrik Ljungkvist (Atomic, Yun Kan etc.) as an addition on clarinet and 
saxophone, Velodrône has released the album The Beenhouse Session. The music is 
a beautiful and modern blend of influences from east to west and north to south, all 
within a jazz context. The oud (Arabic lute) and the violin, together with a wide range of 
percussion, brings flesh and blood the world of jazz, and allows the oriental as well as the 
Nordic harmonies to be present at all times.
Velodrône is: Jonas Östholm: piano/accordion/harmonium/vocals; Salem Al Fakir:
violin/keyboard/cavaqino/vocals; Fredrik Rundqvist: drums; Mats Karlsson:
oud/mandolin/vocals; Filip Augustson: dubble bass; Ola Bothzén: percussion and 
Fredrik Ljungkvist: clarinet/saxophone.
Contact
Leo Hermodsson
[e-mail]
www.hkmusic.se
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS               DANCE               
MUSIC
               PERFORMANCE               THEATRE               YOUTH

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