MDT hosts talks and conversations as part of our expand Off Stage programme.
Browse all upcoming talks here, plus explore our archive of previous talks at MDT. Where possible, you can download supporting materials like reading lists, selected texts and related video/audio content.
After the performance SQUEEZE on Saturday the 9th of November, 2024, choreographer Tyra Wigg will be in conversation with Anna Efraimsson, Theater Director at MDT.
After ‘Here-Us-Now’ on Sunday 20 October 2024, Celine Orman, project leader of Bevara Rörelse at Skånes Dansteater, will talk to Anna Efraimsson, theatre director at MDT.
Podcast recording of the panel discussion Tendencies, held in connection with Within Practice 2024
Interview with Lisa Janbell and Dijle Neva Yigitbas about the process of making "DEVOTED".
After “Ghost Dances / Spökdanser” on Sunday the 2nd of June, choreographer Elleen Söderhult will be in conversation with Unn Faleide, dancer and curating intern at MDT and producer for the show.
After the performance of "GONER" on Friday and Saturday the 15th and 16th of March, 2024, choreographer Malik Nashad Sharpe will be in conversation with Jessie McLaughlin, producer at MDT.
After the performance of "TR3I" on November 19, 2023, choreographer Bianca Traum will be in conversation with Mariana Suikkanen Gomes, co-curator and coordinator at MDT.
Ahead of the world premiere of TR3I, at MDT 17 November, Bianca Traum sat down to talk about the work. Growing up as a third-culture kid in Sweden, Bianca's talk revolves a lot around perspective, culture and identity.
After the performance of "dragON forever" on November 10, 2023, choreographers Aleksandar Georgiev, Zhana Pencheva and Darío Barreto Damas (STEAM ROOM) are having a conversation with producer/curator/club organizer/art educator George Chamoun.
Join in an in-depth conversation about the performance "several attempts at braiding my way home" where the choreographers Adam and Amina Seid Tahir are in conversation with Loulou Cherinet, Ellen Nyman and Elin Julius Svanelind. The conversation is presented by Konstfack and MDT.
After the show ‘several attempts at braiding my way home’ on Friday the 3rd of November the artists Adam och Amina Seid Tahir are conversing with Mmabatho Thobejane, producer at MDT and freelance curator.
After the performance 'Livre d'images sans images' on Sunday the 29th of October, choreographer Mette Edvardsen is having a conversation about the work with professor Chrysa Parkinson.
Ahead of the EarEye Festival at MDT 10 October 2023, Mmabatho Thobejane, producer at MDT, sat down to talk to festival curator Alma Söderberg to talk about the festival.
This short movie will be showed in connection to the performance of "Birth Liquid" by Mona Namér.
To mark the closing performance of Lez Dance by Cajsa Godée and Shirley Harthey Ubilla, we host a shared reading of Patrick Califia’s MACHO SLUTS.
Lisen Rosell, Sandra Medina and Anna Vnuk in conversation with MDT's Theatre Director Anna Efraimsson.
Join us for a post performance Q&A with the team behind "Make Banana Cry" on Saturday 15 April.
A conversation on 24 March with Maria Oliver and Veronica Valentinito about Diversorium, a project that comes out of the expressed desire of two functional diversity activists for a communal space.
Please join us for a talk with the team behind "Sälkvinnorna" on 5 March at 6:15 pm.
In And then it got legs: Notes on dance dramaturgy Jeroen Peeters discusses principles, methods and practices that contribute to an understanding of dramaturgy as an experimental, collaborative practice and a material form of thinking.
In the frame of Amarre, choreographer Ofelia Jarl Ortega and Andrea Rodrigo will hold a conversation that will provide embodied glimpses into Jarl Ortega’s work at large and her latest stage work Bien y mal.
Welcome to an artist talk with Konstgruppen Ful on the 16th of February at 18 - 19 on Facebook livestream.
Please join us for a post performance talk with BamBam Frost.
SDVIG is coming to Stockholm in a cultural exchange between MDT, höjden and Sdvig (Russia) to introduce each other to local situations, share practices and experiences on the ways how local performing arts work with the current critical agenda.
Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement–based, interdisciplinary artist.
We invite you to the release of two new parts of Make Hay While the Sun Shines: a short dance film and a book of conversations
Konstgruppen Ful and MDT invites the audience to a live streamed artist talk and conversation with the Indian choreographer Mandeep Raikhy.
MDT opens the spring season of 2021 and we are welcoming you to a streamed conversation between the two artists Ofelia Jarl Ortega and Tova Gerge, with an introduction by MDT’s director Anna Efraimsson.
Letters to Process is an anthology of artists’ writings on the topics of work and process, inspired by Linda Blomqvist’s Selma. We invite to to join us for the book launch!
Artist, performer and author Sarah Vanhee will present the lecture performance We Are Before.
Museum of Impossible Forms lecture as a part of My Wild Flag 2020.
For the 80% seminar, Ann Juren will present the research Studies on Fantasmical Anatomy as a performative presentation in which the different materials of the research will be exposed and presented.
On 22nd February, after oslo, there will be a launch of a double publication by Varamo Press with Something Some things Something else by Jeroen Peeters and Not Not Nothing by Mette Edvardsen.
June 6th, as part of Shake it Collaborations festival at Skeppsholmen, Sebastian Lingserius will talk about his work and show an extract from Poly.
18th of May, before the performance of The most human, there is a film screening and talk about art and robotics.
After the performance of Mercurial George on the 12th April, Eleanor Bauer will hold a Proto Talk with Dana Michel.
As part of "A Fine Selection: Special Edition!" we celebrate our 30th anniversary with seminars, film screening and a book release.
In connection to the performance "Knot Body" QUARTO will share a video piece and philosopher Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback will reflect from/through the work as a choreographed extension of resonance translated into words.
What if "POSTDANCE" were a book? Now it is! The book is launched at MDT on the 22nd of March 2017.
Bojana Cvejić is leading an info session at MDT about P.A.R.T.S. Research Studios, a 1-year program dedicated to artistic investigation in choreography, dance, and performance.
After the performance of “Dance To Dance To” on the 25th of February 2017 there will be a talk with Ludvig Daae about his work with piece.
In this talk Bojana Cvejić will unfold the ideas of her current research, “Performing the Self in the 21st Century”.