Johan Petri

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Johan Petri
Born (1959-04-24) April 24, 1959 (age 66) Arboga, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Occupation(s)Theatre director, dramatist, and theatre scholar
Years active1991-present

Johan Petri (born 24 April 1959) is a Swedish theatre director, dramatist, and theatre scholar. His work takes place in a field formed by authors of late modernism, contemporary poetry, postdramatic theatre, improvised and contemporary classical music.

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Biography

Born in Arboga, Sweden, Johan Petri studied saxophone and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1980 to 1985. As a musician and composer, he was engaged at many Swedish-speaking theatres, including Stockholm, Gävle, Gothenburg, Helsinki, and also collaborated with different choreographers and dancers like Per Jonsson and Irene Hultman. In 2016, he received a Ph.D. in Directing and Dramaturgy from the University of Gothenburg.

Theater

In 1991, he presented his first production at Jordcirkus, Stockholm: On Goodness by Willy Kyrklund. Since then, he has worked on developing performances and new forms for musical theatre and many productions have followed at both well-renowned theatres in Sweden such as Unga Klara, Royal Dramatic Theatre, The House of Dance, and Swedish Radio Theatre, as well as at fringe theatre companies like Teater Pero (Stockholm) and Irondale Ensemble Project (New York City).

Petri is the co-founder of Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, a theatre company working with contemporary musical drama in different formats which has produced performances directed by Petri, like plays by Öyvind Fahlström, musical theatre by John Cage, Mathias Spahlinger, and Erik Beckman. Co-founder and producer of record company Alice Musik Produktion since 1989, devoted to early Baroque music, improvised and contemporary music. In 2020 Petri was the co-founder of the radio theatre company Radioart, for which he has directed plays by Alice Notley and Gertrude Stein. [1]

Since 2015, teacher and lecturer in directing, theatrical composition, and dramaturgy.

Theater (as director)

Theater (as composer)

Musical works

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Home". radioart.se.
  2. ↑ Kalmteg, Lina (3 October 2007). "Unga Klara utmanar med Gertrude Stein". Svenska Dagbladet.
  3. ↑ Helander, Karin (10 October 2007). "Stein blir roliga språkexperiment". Svenska Dagbladet.
  4. ↑ Helander, Karin (25 October 2009). "Milt vanvett och knepig knasighet". Svenska Dagbladet.
  5. ↑ "Diktläsning i "Limpan eller Lampan"". Dagens Nyheter. 15 October 2009.
  6. ↑ "The Hard and the Soft – a concrete play by Öyvind Fahlström" . Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  7. ↑ Helander, Karin (31 January 2011). "Konstnärligt experiment blir musikalisk poesi". Svenska Dagbladet.
  8. ↑ Skog, Susanne (15 March 2015). "Bland trädtopparna – Italo Calvino som barnopera – Nutida Musik". Nutida Musik. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  9. ↑ Carlsdotter, Sylvia (2019). "De har något vi kan lära oss igen" . Drama – Nordisk Dramapedagogisk Tidsskrift. 2: 22–27. doi:10.18261/issn.2535-4310-2019-01-06. S2CID   195467025.
  10. ↑ Petri, Johan (19 August 2016). The Rhythm of Thinking: Immanence and Ethics in Theater Performance. ISBN   9789198242300.
  11. ↑ Rynell, Erik (2020). "Theatre performance, Deleuzian immanence and ethics". Swedish Journal of Music Research. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  12. ↑ Petri, Johan (2015). "Creating Performative Critique - A reflective attempt of a dramaturgical and methodological kind on One Less Manifesto, by Gilles Deleuze" (PDF). Johan Petri. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
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