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Apply for a course this autumn
Do you want to immerse yourself in your subject, perhaps studying part-time or at a distance? SKH offers courses at different levels in circus, dance, dance pedagogy, film and media, opera, and theatre, with start this autumn. Apply by 15 April.
Can directors and actors be vulnerable to one another?
Director Linn Hilda Lamberg research participatory performance – a form of performing arts in which the audience actively participates in the action. Her work demonstrates how close relationships and authentic experiences create both powerful art and ethical challenges, and provides new insights into how integrity, intimacy and leadership can function within artistic processes.
Language in focus in the new issue of VIS
VIS Issue 15, LANGUAGE/ LANGUAGED/ LANGUAGING, was published on 19 March 2026. The issue examines the relationship between artistic research and the act of language-making.
Photo: Eos Karlsson This is SKH
Stockholm University of the Arts, SKH, offers education and research within the fields of Circus, Dance, Film and Media, Opera and Theatre. It is both one of the oldest higher education institutions in Stockholm – and one of the youngest.Events
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Embodied Explorations: Investigating the essence of a malagasy funeral ritual
Gwen Rakotovao’s 30% – seminar ‘Embodied Explorations: Investigating the essence of a Malagasy funeral ritual’ is on 26 March.
- Thursday 26 Mar+ 1 other occasions26Mar
A door left ajar… Scenes of hope and despair
An opera about searing injustices, deadly power struggles and a touch of romance, with the first-year opera students.
- Tuesday 31 Mar+ 1 other occasions31Mar
30% seminar of Hybrid Landscapes
Claudia Bosse’s 30% seminar Hybrid Landscapes will be held in two parts, on 31 March and 1 April.
When absence becomes performing arts
2026-03-23In Marcia Nemer’s research “Staging Absence”, absence become the very heart of the performing arts. Through performances and unexpected studio experiments, she demonstrates how absence can speak louder than presence – and transform the way we experience theatre.
Language in focus in the new issue of VIS
2026-03-20VIS Issue 15, LANGUAGE/ LANGUAGED/ LANGUAGING, was published on 19 March 2026. The issue examines the relationship between artistic research and the act of language-making.
Can directors and actors be vulnerable to one another?
2026-03-18Director Linn Hilda Lamberg research participatory performance – a form of performing arts in which the audience actively participates in the action. Her work demonstrates how close relationships and authentic experiences create both powerful art and ethical challenges, and provides new insights into how integrity, intimacy and leadership can function within artistic processes.
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International cooperation
International cooperation is an important part of education and research at SKH. Through an active dialogue with external partners and close cooperation with universities around the world, we strengthen the quality of our education and research and give students and staff the possibility to develop.
Targeted study support
At SKH, everyone should be able to study on equal terms and have the same opportunities to conduct their studies regardless of functional variation. If you as a student have a functional variation that affects your ability to study, you are entitled to targeted study support.
Careers
SKH is looking for people who want to contribute to an attractive study, research and working environment. Here you will find job vacancies at SKH, plus links to trade union organisations, information on preferential rights and the criteria for applying for teaching positions.
Exchange studies
SKH welcomes international students to experience academic studies and student life at a university with a variety of educations within the field of art!