Open Call
Here you can read about the Open Calls announced during Gothenburg's dance and theater festival 2024.
Cosmetic Demons - a Choreographic Saloon / Sindri Runudde. Photo: Thomas Zarnolo
WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU WHO WANT TO GET A FREE HAIRCUT DURING THE FESTIVAL AND YOU WHO ARE A HAIRDRESSER!
Would you like to be a part of the performance Cosmetic Demons – a Choreographic Saloon? We are looking for both those who want to get a haircut and those who are hairdressers.
We are looking for “customers” for the hairdressing chairs during the performances on August 28 and 29 at Atalante. The haircut takes about 60 minutes. You will be part of the performance and get a free haircut (applies to all hair lengths). We also need people who want to get a haircut during the opening party at Göteborgs Stadsteater on August 23, about 30 minutes sometime between 22:00 PM and 01:00 AM. (This applies to those with short hair). We also need you who are a hairdresser and want to perform a haircut per performance on August 28 and 29 at Atalante.
How does getting a haircut work? The “customers” gather together with dancers and hairdressers at Atalante at 18:00 PM on both days, August 28 and 29. Then they get to talk briefly with their hairdressers and sit in the hairdressing chairs. The haircut will take place during the performance from 19:00 PM to 20:10 PM, but the customers need to be available at Atalante from 18:00 PM to 20:30 PM on August 28 and 29. It is free to get a haircut and it is done by really good hairdressers.
How does it work being a hairdresser? As a hairdresser, you will receive 3000 SEK per performance, totaling 6000 SEK/hairdresser. They need to be at Atalante from 16:30 PM to 20:30 PM on August 28 and from 17:30 PM to 20:30 PM on August 29.
Are you interested? We need to know which day you can participate, whether you are applying as a hairdresser or customer and your phone number. We will get back to you! Send your application to ronja.aberg.tarnklev@stadsteatern.goteborg.se.
Dieter and volunteers carrying benches. Photo: Lea Blagojevic.
Are you good at listening and value human connections?
Bench Invasion involves the artist Dieter Missiaen, together with 10 volunteers, each carrying a portable bench, walking around in Gothenburg, placing their bench in a suitable location, and inviting people around the area to engage in conversation with them. At the end of the project all the bench carrying volunteers invite the people who have joined them for conversation to a gathering outside Stora Teatern. There, all the people involved in the project share a “Swedish fika” and toast together to violin music.
On the 23rd and 24th of August 2024, the Dutch ‘Company KraK’ will be attending the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, taking over the streets of Gothenburg. We are currently seeking volunteers of all kinds, to participate in the company’s art project. You who apply should enjoy talking with people from all backgrounds. You are open-minded, attentive, and have a genuine interest in listening to others’ stories. We aim for our 10 volunteers to represent a diversity of the Gothenburg population. Come as you are, with your curiosity for human encounters!
As a thank you for participating in ‘Bench Invasion’, you get two tickets to a performance at Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival 2024.
Volunteer speaking with citizen. Photo: Philippe Vanden Bussche.
Project timeframe, 3-4 hours on Friday the 23rd and/or on Saturday the 24th
– 30 minutes of preparation and information outside Stora Teatern with the artist Dieter.
– 1.5 hours walking around in central Gothenburg with benches to converse with people.
– 1 hour to toast and have a coffee together outside of Stora Teatern (non-alcoholic cider, some biscuits, and coffee are provided), accompanied by violin music.
Every day, 10 people can help carry this project! Are you one of them?
Send an e-mail including your name, age, languages you speak, and a short description of who you are, to ronja.aberg.tarnklev@stadsteatern.goteborg.se.
However, before you apply, please notice that you must be able to carry a small bench under your arm (or have assistance with carrying) and a bag on your back with the bench’s legs (the benches are the same as those seen in picture 1).
Concluding toast together. Photo: Philippe Vanden Bussche.
More information and project trailer
In the pop-up performance ‘Bench Invasion’, artist Dieter Missiaen moves into public space with ten local people, each with a bench under their arm, looking for contact. At an unannounced moment, they set up the benches and actively invite people to sit next to them. They are present, they listen. At the end, they all come together for a toast: the bearers of the benches and the sitters. Bystanders are also invited.
“We convert the benches into one long table in the public space. With words and music, we toast to the beauty of small encounters and to life. In this way, we (re)connect people, are present and pays tribute to everything that happens in our public space. After, the communal table turns into benches again. The square is empty, and everyone continues their own way. Like nothing ever happened.”
