NEWS

17/8 2016 In October 2016 the performance The Olympic Shames will premiere at Barker-teatteri in Turku. Can shame be beautiful? we ask ourselves and in order to answer that question we take help from the ancient greek godess of shame, Aidos. More info

New community work for Triennial in Saaren Kartano

17/2 2016 During March and April 2016 Livsmedlet moves out to Saaren Kartano in order to create a work for a new community arts triennial. the show Shadow Cabinett, created under the theme "Vastaan-otto", is a walking tour inspired by the nightly shadows of the neighborhood. The show will be made in collaboration with local inhabitants of Mietoinen. Performances in Mietoinen by the end of April. More info

Livsmedlet in Africa

10/2 2016 Livsmedlet has, during 6 exiting weeks explored visual theater through dance and traditions in Benin in Africa. The trip that had the support of svenska kulturfonden, arts promotion centre Finland and African-Finnish Cultural Centre Villa Karo included among other things a workshops for school kids and meetings with local professionals.

Livsmedlet in Europe and Caribia

22/9 2015 TraFika is can be seen in October at the Czech Puppetry festival Spectaculo Interesse in Ostrava. For next year Livsmedlet has recieved an invitation for Bacanal del Titere de la Havana in Cuba, to perform their new piece Invisible Lands. Invisible Lands can also be seen this november in Rovaniemi in Finland as a part of the Viitus Festival.

Summer of Dead Ends

1/7 2015 Dead Ends, Livsmedlets popular street show where local history is told on traffic signs has opened the season with 18 well recieved shows at Oerol Festival in Holland. In August it is time for a swedish premiere with Dead Ends at Södermalm in Stockholm. Tickets for that can be retrieved from our crowdfundingcampaign!

Invisible Lands met with enthusiasm

1/5 2015 Livsmedlets performance Invisible Lands has finally premiered and was met with enthusiasm from both audience and press! While mixing puppetry and physical expression we have managed to find a stage language that awakens thoughts and question on an urgent subject. We received some of the most beautiful words written about performance in these two reviews.
Very proud!
Turun Sanomat and Extempore Kulttuuriblogit

Invisible Lands premiere

20/4 2015 A puppetry performance that takes you close to the skin into a story of the travels of refugees. Mixing physical and visual expression, Invisible Lands brings an uncomfortable but urgent subject into Tehdas Teatteri. Premiere 24/4 2015!

Residency at Kutomo

1/1 2015 The new dance performance duet Pushing Paper, based on questions of skills of movement, is in the making. This spring a new working process will take place at contemporary artspace Kutomo in Turku. More info coming soon..

Livsmedlet residency at Clipa Theatre

24/11 2014 Livsmedlet continues the creation of their new performance Invisible Lands with a residency at Clipa Theatre in Tel Aviv during december. During the spring 2015 the performance will find its final form to be premiered in April 2015.

Review of Nystet

12/11 2014
"Lindgren brings the maximum out of that one object animation: the creature escapes, collaborates and leads the performer."

Nystet, my children show, received a very nice review in Turun Sanomat after an appearance in TIP fest (Turku International Puppetry Festival). The whole text can be found (in Finnish) here.

Livsmedlet in England

6/9 2014. The urban animation team of Livsmedlet has just returned from a successful residence and performing period in Cumbria, England. Creating another unique Dead Ends show for the exceptional and very big, very professional street arts festival Mintfest. We are proud to be marked as one of the highligts of the festival and inspired by the history and the beauty of little Kendal and the Lake District.

Livsmedlet is exploring: Bodies as landscapes

15/8 2014. Amid cows, river and stimulating nettles in Vetlanda in southern Sweden, Livsmedlet spent an artist-in-residence period, converting our bodies into landscapes and sceneries that were inhabited by little figures. This marked a beginning of the work on Invisible lands, the new coming performance by LIVSMEDLET – to be premiéred in April 2015.

The call of the Swamp

8/5 2014. After successful performances of Dead Ends in Tromsø, Norway, Livsmedlet will now come to Varissuo (the crow swamp) in Turku. Join us for an Urban Animation Pop-up Centre 15th & 16th May, don’t miss our Open Street School 19th to 23rd of May and come to our new performances 5th to 7th of June. It’s all for free, but it will stay with you forever.

LIVSMEDLET duo goes Norway

1/1 2014. My collaboration with puppeteer Ishmael Falke has gotten its own idenity. Her name is LIVSMEDLET. Livsmedel means groceries or literally substances for life. Based in Turku and Stockholm, our crew of essential food for heart and thought is now invited to participate in Vårscenefest in Tromsø, Norway, where we will stay in a residence 17.4-4.5., creating and performing another Dead Ends.

Selected for One Nights Dance 2013! In september and october I will be starting a research for a new performance first to be shown as a part of One Nights Dance, at Dansatteliers in Rotterdam. Performances will take place in the middle of October.

Visual Theatre workshop based on methods from traFika
The workshop with the theme integrating visual symbols on stage is based on the rehearsal methods used for the performance traFika. Next workshop is to be held 31/5 and 1/6 2013 in Turku.
more info about the workshop and registration

traFika invited to Cuba! After visiting Nordic and Mediterranean cities the visual-theatre-road-trip-puppetry-dance-performance traFika has received an invitation from the Cuban Ministry of Culture to participate in the 15th International Theatre Festival of Havana, 27.10.-3.11.2013!


Dead Ends selected for the residency at Spoffin Street Arts Festival!
Dead Ends – the Art of Urban Animation was exclusively selected for the Spoffin street arts festival’s residency. The residence will be in Amersfoort, Netherlands, during the month of August. Dead Ends will perform 22.-25.8.2013.
Article on Spoffin.eu about the residency



traFika is selected for the touring program "Theater on tour" by TINFO Finland
Link: TINFO Finland: Theater on tour