Performing Arts

"The Returning" by Fredrik Brattberg will be performed at Scandinavia House Monday, January 30th at 8pm. Pre-reception starts at 7.30pm. Free entrance. Read more

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” opens on January 12 at Scena Theatre in Washington, DC. Read more

The Bergen International Festival celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2012 with a fortnight of music, theatre, dance, opera and visual art. Read more

Look Inside - Art Since the Summer of '69 and Rhizome present Nils Bech with Bendik Giske and Sergei Tcherepnin at the New Museum and at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, as part of Performa 11. Read more

Ping Chong’s Angels of Swedenborg, a dance theatre work, is performed by LaMaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company, October 27 – November 13, 2011. Read more

Created by Inger‐Reidun Olsen, the founder of the Kompani iRo dance troupe, during a residency at Experimental El Eco in Mexico City, RE‐ACTION is a performance that explores the phenomenon of power by probing the ways in which power dynamics affect us. Premiere Performance on Sunday, October 30th, 7‐8 pm, with shows running through November 12th. Read more

Dance performance titled Open Your Window' by Einy Aam / EyeKnee Coordination on Sunday September 18th at 5pm, 6pm and 7pm. The performance is free of charge. Read more

Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp is directed by Kenny Howard, starring Alexandra Gjerpen, Rob Hinderliter and Dominick LaRuffa Jr. Performances at The 45th Street Theater in New York from 9th to 11th September. Read more

Performa has announced its fourth visual art performance biennial, Performa 11, taking place November 1–20, 2011, throughout New York City. Performa 11 will feature performances by over 100 of the most exciting contemporary artists, including Norwegians Elmgren & Dragset and 9 other new Performa Commissions by acclaimed artists from around the world, as well as Performa Premieres and a host of... Read more

Andrew Janet’s modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS. It will be the inaugural full production by the Classic Play Reading Series, and will be produced outdoors in the Secret Garden of the Merchant’s House Museum in New York, and runs between July 7—10 and 14—17. Read more

Carte Blanche, Norway's award-winning National Company of Contemporary Dance, makes its U.S. company debut at Jacob's Pillow. Acclaimed for its technical prowess and powerful stage presence, this company of 14 dancers performs a program of two sensational works, both by Batsheva Dance Company choreographer Sharon Eyal. Performances between June 29 July 3 in Becket, MA. Read more

Every year, the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. "adopts" an elementary school class as part of the "Embassy Adotion Program," which seeks to bring global education to D.C. public school students, through D.C.’s international community. Read more

360° Dance Company presents an evening of six works including the New York Premiere of What Was Still Is, choreographed by artistic director Martin Løfsnes, from June 2 - 4 in New York City. Read more

"Through Hell Gate to The Promised Land" is a storytelling performance about the first Norwegian group of emigrants that arrived in New York at October 9th, 1825. At the Seamen's Church in New York on Wednesday May 11 at 7 pm and Mindekirken in Minneapolis on May 17. Read more

Signal to Noise returns for another wall-rattling, late-night art party, activating every area of the Museum of the Moving Image once again with fresh local tunes and visualists, web video showdowns, personally tailored playlists, performed cinema, booty shaking beats, and much more. Saturday, May 7, 8:00 pm - 2:00 am in Astoria, Queens. Read more

Baby It's You, choreographed by Norwegian Birgitte Mutrux, is the original Broadway musical inspired by the true story of Florence Greenberg, a suburban housewife from New Jersey, who discovered one of the greatest girl groups of all time, The Shirelles, and created Scepter Records, becoming the music industry's first female powerhouse. Opens April 27th on Broadway. Read more

New York based Norwegian dancer and choreographer Einy Åm, will be performing the solo To Listen from her latest piece Encounter, a commissioned work for dance and string quartet by Magnar Åm. The performance is part of the American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2011, and will take place on Saturday Feb 26th at 3pm. Read more

In conjunction with the Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret’s premiere of And All the Question Marks Started to Sing—an art machine played by performers, musicians and robots—FuturePerfect, CPR, Dance Theater Workshop and Performance Space 122 invite you to a panel on Installation, Art Machines and Performance. At CPR in new York on February 28th at 7:30PM. Read more

The Scandinavian American Theater Company presents: Contemporary Scandinavian Reading Series - Danish playwright Jokum Rohde's Pinocchio's Ashes at Scandinavia House Monday January 31st, with free admission and refreshments Read more

Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret’s newest work, And All the Question Marks Started to Sing, is a bewilderingly complex orchestration of animation, object theater, and sound, or what the company has called “an art machine played by performers, musicians, and robots.” Catch one of their performances in New York, Febuary 24th to 27th. Read more