Events and news

Our opera education has a long and successful collaboration with the University of Cape Town in South Africa, a university that is a burgeoning nursery for opera singers internationally. Last week, we were visited by Jeremy Silver and Sindile Patrick Tikolo.

In the artistic research course The Impact of Research, nine different students learn how to conduct research over two semesters. In January, as part of the course, they participated in a film workshop with cameras from the 1950s and 60s, where they even got to develop their own films in coffee!

The SKH’s annual Research Week, which ran from 17–20 January 2023, ended last Friday. During the week, SKH researchers and PhD students gave a total of 25 presentations of ongoing and completed research projects in circus, dance, dance pedagogy, film, media, opera, performing arts and acting. The Research Week was held both on-site and live-streamed via our website.

Welcome to Stockholm University of the Arts Research Week 17–20 January 2022, which this year will be held both on-site and live-streamed via our website.

With this little film, SKH wishes everyone happy holidays and a very happy new year!

Vanja Hamidi Isacson successfully defended her artistic research project "The potential of multilingualism in dramatic works" on 9 December 2022, within the PhD programme Performative and Media-Based Practices.

It was really nice to be back at the Saco Student Fair after two years of pandemic restrictions and to physically meet secondary school students to talk about our programmes. A total of 21,554 visitors came to Kistamässan where the event took place over two days, 1-2 December.

Do you want to be a circus performer or maybe a mime actor? Or are you already active within the performing arts and would like to pursue an advanced programme at master's level? Application for our programmes starting in autumn 2023 opens today and you can apply until 16 January 2023.

On 18 November, issue eight of VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research was released, with the theme “of Rules and Alternatives”. The editors of the issue are Serge von Arx and Eliot Moleba.

When the autumn term starts in 2023, the opera students will meet the then-newly appointed teachers Emma Lyrén Fernandez and Fredrik Zetterström. "We are very pleased to have these two vocal performance teachers join our opera teaching staff," says Head of Department Lise-Lotte Axelsson about the recruitments.

Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) invites applications to its international Masters of Fine Arts degree programmes - Dance Education (MADE), New Performative Practices (NPP) and Performing Arts. Applications are currently open. The deadline is 16 January 2023.

One artistic research project at Stockholm University of the Arts will receive a total of 3.9 million Swedish kronor in funding when the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) distribute this year’s grants.
– We are very happy that Marie Fahlin, who successfully completed her PhD at SKH on 28 April 2021, now will be returning to us as a researcher, says Cecilia Roos, Vice-Rector for Research at SKH.