Performing Arts

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

BAM and Abbey Theatre present the US premiere of Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. The play, in a new version by Frank McGuinness, starrs Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan and James MacDonald. Premiere on January 7th 2011 at 7.30pm at BAM Harvey Theater in New York. Read more

Scandinavian Theatre Company presents Me and My Boy, written by Icelandic Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson and directed by Norwegian Henning Hegland. The free performance takes place at Scandinavia House in New York on December 6th. Read more

Private showing of Norwegian artist Ella Christina Fiskum, the artistic director of Ella Fiskum Danz on December 1st in NYC. Read more

An original piece presented with over 30 puppets, 5 actors/puppeteers, masks, a robot, animated video projection and a space-age score, Wakka Wakka spins the bizarre tale of “Baby Universe." At Baruch Performing Arts Center from Dec 1sth through January 8th. Read more

It's 1977. It's 1973. It's 1958. It's 1962. It's 1979. And I'm going to ask you the same damn thing people are always asking me, like 'how did you end up here?'" Iver Findlay and Marit Sandsmark at PS 122 in New York, November 10-14. Read more

Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk’s children’s opera “Max and Moritz” premiered at the National Gallery of Art, Sunday October 17. Read more

The monologue "Mother", staged by Bente Børsum and directed by Anne-Karen Hytten, will be performed at the Norwegian Seaman's Church and Cultural Center in New York on September 24th at 7.00 pm. Read more

Former Co-Artistic and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company, John Gould Rubin is staging a unique production of Hedda Gabler. Beginning on Tuesday August 10th and running thru Saturday, Sept. 4th, Rubin and his team have placed his production in an elegant downtown townhouse. By having the audience and actors mingle in this rarified environment, the play’s central themes and intimaci... Read more

World premiere of Shabana Rehman's one-woman dramatic play "For Kingdom and Fatherland" at the FringeNYC Festival August 13 through 24. Read more

In collaboration with the Embassy of Norway and the New York Opera Society, the National Gallery of Art will present the world premiere performance of a new children's opera, Max und Moritz: A Cartoon Opera in Seven Pranks, by Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk. Read more

Norwegian dancer and artistic director Martin Løfsnes presents 360° Dance Company in an evening where older modern dance classics and new cutting edge works fuse together to showcase the dramatic vision and integrity of the great modern dance masterpieces with the creativity and energy of today's exciting choreographers. June 17-19 at Dance Theater Workshop in New York. Read more

August Strindberg's "Miss Julie", adapted by Craig Lucas, will be performed at Scandinavia House in New York on June 10-12, and June 17-19, 2010, at 7:30pm. Read more

The Norwegian National Ballet, the country’s most prestigious dance company, is on their 3rd tour to the Dance Salad Festival in Houston. Festival dates are April 1-3 2010. Read more

The play Terra Nova, written by Academy Award winner Ted Tally, is set i Antarctica and follows the race to the South Pole between Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen. Performed by Wabash College Theater Department in Indiana, Feb 24-27. Read more

The Poetry Project at the famous St. Marks Church will feature a performance of Mina Loy's play "Crystal Pantomime" with Norwegian artist Marthe Ramm Fortun on the 29th of January at 10pm. Read more

Liv Ullmann — whose soul-baring performances in the films of Ingmar Bergman defined an era —directs A Streetcar Named Desire performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music 27 November - 20 December. Special events: 3 December Belle Rêve Gala and 7 December Artist Talk with Ms. Ullmann. Read more

Lina Viste Grønli with 'Effigies' and Nils Bech, Bendik Giske & Lina Viste Grønli with 'Look Back', in New York November 7-27. Read more