Entries by Elin Rekdal

Premiere: To live on

It feels like I’m going to die. Everytime.The heart is pounding, can’t breathe, just has to get away.Just because I see a man in a police uniform.Breathe in, breathe out.It is not dangerous. There you go.It’ goes well’s okayDo you remember that you were the one who taught me to breathe like this? In the […]

Ant Invation!

What’s happening? Ants the size of people occupying the school yard? And they collect… breadcrumbs the size of whole loaves? Ants is an interactive and spectacular dance performance where each performance is unique and adapted to the outdoor space it is performed in. The audience collaborates with the ants, gets various tasks and maybe even […]

The little Swan Lake

Claire Parsons co performance LILLA SVANSJÖN was made for Unga Dramaten in Stockholm. Instead of the graceful swans the audience might expect, three figures appear who try to fly and find the best steps for birds in a group. LILLA SVANSJÖN comes to terms with who gets to take their place and with the expectations […]

A crime story about sorrow and loss

“Break her new” is a crime story and a story about processing grief. Erika, her twin sister, mother, and father live on a small island in the Norwegian Sea. One day, Erika finds her sister injured by the river. She and the new neighbor Guten (Boy) help her home, but during the night her sister […]

Parkour!

UVENTA takes us on a physical and visual performing arts experience – a symbiosis of dance, parkour, technology, and media. In UVENTA, we move between different layers of time and “reality.” Two parkour performers, a musician, and live video and light projections lead us through unexpected transitions and shifts between these realities – into a […]

Project Dictator

… or why democracy is overrated and I don’t miss it at all. Project Dictator by British Rhum+Clay is as funny as it is heartbreaking, as intimate as it is universal. A guide to totalitarianism that contains both military coups, election campaign platitudes, populism and the degradation of the human – at the same time […]

Chameleon Skills

“The Chameleons” is about growing up and cross-cultural identity. About fumbling to find yourself, finding your place and where you belong. About sending heart emojis to grandma in Tunisia because you don’t speak the same language, about blending in, sticking out, about love that is like candy, about “skin-colored” pencils, about racism and prejudice, about […]

Kaleidoscope

In collaboration with Dansens hus, we invite you to Shi Pratt’s new show for the very young: Kaleidoscope. The audience is invited to enter a vivid landscape of texture, light, color and sound, and join the performers for a multi-sensorial experience. In a synesthetic environment in which the senses merge, and with the theme of […]

Fall and float like a balloon

In the EU project PUSH+, dancer Martijn Joling from Norway met choreographer Mónica Muñoz from Ireland, and together with dancer Amy Pender they have created a lovely and fun dance performance for children, “Fall and Float”. Here, childhood, play, imagination and, not least, friendship are celebrated. We can’t wait to show it to you at […]

Meet Librarian-Karen

“I have to investigate that!” says Library-Karen. Because in the books there are answers to many strange things. Could it be true that wolves eat grandmothers? Or that monster likes poo? In her library there are many books! And just like in the nursery, there are many different departments. Department for large books and for […]

Påkemon (with Å)

Æsj Ketchup has finally turned ten years old and is now ready to put his time at school behind him and start the career path towards becoming the world’s best Pokemon trainer. Unfortunately, not all pokemons are too fan of living inside a little ball for the rest of their lives, even though the opening […]

The Egg

One early morning, the forest comes to life, and a forest elf finds a large egg. She guards the egg and dreams of what lives in it. We follow the wonderful transformation from egg to newly hatched baby bird, and the baby bird’s transformation into a beautiful, full-grown and capable bird. The Egg is a […]

Rock me baby

Five grown men dance, sing and play catchy newly written rock songs in a new boundary-breaking and fun performance, and that for a very young audience group (0-5 years) with their parents or guardians. Rock me Baby is a new dance-theatre-music production for the youngest children aged 0-5 by Øystein Elle /Capto Musicae and Karstein […]

Do you want to volunteer at Showbox 2023?

Do you want to volunteer at this year’s Showbox? We are looking for volunteers in the period 28 November to 2 December.We need volunteers who can work both during the day and in the evening, and are flexible in terms of workload. Feel free to contact us and we will find a solution! As a […]

Welcome to Showbox 2023!

The dates for this year’s festival are set, November 28 – December 2, it’s appening in Oslo! This year, as last year, there will be both performances and professional programs, mingling, a party and, of course, an award ceremony! Gulljerven will be distributed on Thursday 30 November. See you in Oslo!

Thank you!

The last festival guests are now on their way with the magical tram transport towards the North Pole and it is possible that some children still refuse to leave the scenography of the Lava Forest, but Showbox is over for this year. What a festival it has been!

Feil teater brings us Nordpolen Magiske Trikkevogntransport (North Pole Magical Tramcar)

Critics and audience were delighted by last year’s christmas show 11-trikken går til Nordpolen (The 11-tram goes to the North Pole)  by Feil Teater. The company is back with a new magical winter adventure, this time in collaboration with Kloden teater. Nordpolen Magiske Trikkevogntransport (North Pole Magical Tramcar) is based on interviews with children from […]

Into the Unknown

Are you at a crossroads in life and need advice? Do you have questions about your future? About our common survival or doom? Is there something you go and ponder that you almost dare not think aloud? Then you have a unique chance to get answers.

Strategic marketing for performing artists

Making yourself or your own projects visible in the performing arts can be overwhelming, small and feel arbitrary. Few of us are trained in marketing and the little we can do has been created through the well-known trial and error method. If you recognize yourself, then you read on.

The mechanical garden

The two friends Fio and Lyria live in a beautiful garden where they plant vegetables and enjoy eating applepie, drink tea and listen to music every day. One day a mysterious figure enters the garden and wants to hang a new bird box.

Never AFK

Never afk (away from keyboard) is a performance for young people, which explores virtual reality and identity through the concept of gaming addiction.

SeaMe!

Do you remember anything from when you were inside mom’s belly? How was it really there? Join in on a underwater dream journey where you dive into history with two strange creatures.

Stories about (not) coming home

For us in Norway, freedom of speech and practicing an art you are passionate about is a matter of course, this is not the case for Gato. Yet he chooses, as he himself says, the dance 100 out of 100 times.

Monster i magen

When the girl’s mother dies, the Girl discovers that a monster has moved into her stomach. The monster refuses to move out and makes her do all sorts of stupid things.

KinShips

In collaboration with Dansens Hus, we have the pleasure of presenting KinShips.   We have landed in the trembling, rhythmic and microbial atmosphere of the skin. We are the size of microbes in a universe of dancers, shapes and figures. On a journey where we study the meetings between us. Between microbes, between people, between […]

Strawberry

Hannah has a mom and a dad and strawberry plants on the balcony. As every year, she looks forward to the strawberries ripening. But this year everything will be different, because mom and dad have suddenly decided to divorce.

The Guljerven Award 2021

Have you nominated your favorites for Gulljerven? 2020 and 2021 have been a tough year for actors in the field of performing arts, and therefore it is all the more important to celebrate properly! The nominations will come from the performing arts field itself, and we encourage everyone to think about breadth and diversity when you nominate. The prize is awarded during this year’s Showbox, the first week in December.