Nov 28 2016
This week Showbox, an international festival of performing arts for children and young people, takes place in Oslo. We are happy to open the festival with The Virus at Black Box Theatre Tuesday 29th November. And the performance is already sold out!
Nov 21 2016
In 2001 the director of the International Festival of Modern Choreography in Vitebsk, Belarus, first uttered a wish to show There at their festival. 15 years later we are finally going!
Nov 16 2016
This week CINARS is taking place in Montreal, Canada and our senior project manager Guri Glans is representing JSK at the Nordic Square Booth. Drop by to have a chat with her about our plans and productions!
Also this week, A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football is performing at Kimen Kulturhus in Stjørdal, and The Virus in Lørenskog Hus.
Nov 9 2016
We are excited to announce that we have moved our office to the most exciting cultural hub in Oslo, Sentralen. Come visit us on the top floor, where we sit together with a variety of companies involved in cultural production and social innovation.
Oct 25 2016
We are super excited to announce the Norwegian premiere of our brand new post-apocalyptic dance theatre piece: The Virus. Prepare for superhumans, unorthodox space travelers and fado music in this whimsical étude on the future visions of popular culture. Runs Nov 1. – 6. on The Norwegian Opera – get you ticket here.
Oct 11 2016
The Kitchen performs Thursday to Saturday at ZeBU in Copenhagen, including being the opening performance of Amager Børneteaterfestival on Saturday. A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football is headlining In2It International Dance Festival in Sunndalsøra, Norway. And last but not least, it is the final week of rehearsals before our brand new production The Virus opens at La Fabrika in Prague on Monday 17th October.
Sep 12 2016
Our upcoming production The Virus has now started rehearsals in Oslo.
Our three great male performers, Mikkel Are Olsenlund, Ivar Sverrisson and Dag Rune Sjøli, has been joined by a hurricane from Portugal, wonderful Vânia Doutel Vaz. This will be fun!
Aug 31 2016
The Writer was granted the award for Best Foreign Production at the 16th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival in Teheran, Iran. This puppet performance about the Norwegian Nobel prize winning author Knut Hamsun was the first co-production JSK made with Ulrike Quade Company, and it excites us that next year we will premiere our third collaboration, Coco, about the legendary Coco Chanel.
Aug 19 2016
Our successful puppet performance The Writer, made in collaboration with Ulrike Quade Company (NL) and Nordland Visual Theatre, is still going strong 7 years after its premiere. The coming week it will visit the 16th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival in Teheran, Iran. The Writer was the first co-production JSK made with Ulrike Quade Company, and it excites us that next year we will premiere our third collaboration, Coco.
Aug 17 2016
We are back at the office preparing for a busy autumn, including production of our brand new performance The Virus and pre-production for our dance film Closed and puppet theatre production Coco. In addition we will be touring dance extravaganza Czterdziesci, our children’s show The Kitchen and the old-time success A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football.
Jul 5 2016
For a couple of weeks rehearsal studios, touring vehicles and office seats will be replaced by refreshing swims, mountain walks and generous portions of ice cream. The JSK office will be closed in July, but in August we will be back preparing for a busy autumn, including production of our brand new performance The Virus and pre-production for our dance film Closed and puppet theatre Coco. In addition we will be touring dance extravaganza Czterdziesci, children’s show The Kitchen and old-time success A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football.
Enjoy your summer and remember sun screen!