The Malmö Theatre Academy is looking forward to welcoming the first students of the new Master’s Programme in Performing Arts as Critical Practice, who will start their studies in the Autumn of 2023. The Academy now invites artists within theatre, dance and performance who want to embark on a research-led study and to situate their practices within the social, political and economic conditions of the contemporary world, to submit their applications between December 1, 2022 and January 15, 2023.
This pioneering Master’s education brings together a diversity of innovative performing arts practices with critical reflection, and promotes expertise in initiating and building new alliances and arenas both within and outside existing structures. It aims to educate artists who can engage imaginatively with urgent social and political challenges and will take an active role in shaping current developments in the performing arts field and research.
Ditte Maria Bjerg, Rector at the Malmö Theatre Academy:
“We want to attract a broad field of international students, from dance, theatre and performance, who are passionate to develop their already existing artistic practise into a new territory - socially engaged art.”
Edit Kaldor
In the late spring of 2022, after an extensive search for the right person to lead the new Master’s programme , theatre maker, researcher and senior lecturer, Edit Kaldor was hired by the Academy as programme director.
Kaldor has taught and lectured at (performing) art academies and universities across Europe, and has led numerous workshops at theatres and festivals. She is currently concluding her PhD studies on new forms of relationality in contemporary performance, and is co-editor of the book Theatres of Powerlessness (Bloomsbury / Methuen Drama,2023).
As an artist she is recognized internationally as a unique voice in the contemporary theatre and performance landscape. She has collaborated with people from all walks of life, at times over extended periods and across projects. Her pieces merge documentary and fictional material, and tend to address seemingly unspeakable subjects. Her works often integrate digital media and interfaces, and explore the theatrical possibilities in the daily use of technology. Her performances, which considerably stretch the boundaries of theatrical conventions, have been presented in over 30 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and North Africa.
"I am excited to develop, together with a fantastic team, an education for critical performing arts practices that connect to and interact with contemporary society in complex, relevant and sensitive ways."
Edit Kaldor was born in Budapest, immigrated as a child to the United States, where she lived for ten years before moving back to Europe. She studied English Literature and Theatre at Columbia University in New York and at DasArts in Amsterdam. She had worked as dramaturge and video-maker with Peter Halasz (Squat theater/Love theater, New York), collaborating on numerous theatre performances and film scripts, before starting to make her own work.
Read more about the Master’s Programme in Performing Arts as Critical Practice and Edit Kaldor on the Malmö Theatre Academy web site.
More about Edit Kaldor
To Re-see What We Cannot Unsee in Why Theatre? NTGent - speech at opening Dutch Theatre Festival 2020 (new window, whytheatre.eu)
Interview in Scenekunst.no - “Nye dramaturgier for en ny politisk virkelighet” (New Dramaturgies for New Political Realities) by Mariken Lauvstad (in Norwegian, new window, scenkunst.no)