2024-03-05 Senior University Living in and through dance, lecture
2024-02-15 – 2024-08-28 Dansmuseet Stockholm
A Conversation with Efva Lilja on her artistry
2023-11-11 – 2023-11-23 Galleri ArtSight, Stockholm DISCLOSURE, Beyond What is Said There is Dance, solo exhibition
2023-10-31 Old Town book shop, Stockholm Living in and through dance, book presentation
2023-10-30 Stockholm Uniarts, Dance department, Stockholm Writing Dance, workshop
2023-10-28 Sista dansen, Fylkingen, Stockholm A Future Strategy, performance
2023-10-23 Soppkulturlunch i Kruthuset, Huskvarna hembygdsförening To dance all doubts away, Lecture
2023-10-23 SILK, Jönköping Living in and through dance, book presentation
2023-10-21 Nationell Estetisk Kongress, Växjö Living in and through dance, seminar
2023-10-17 Moment teater Gubbängen, Danscentrum Stockholm Living in and through dance, seminar
2023-10-15 Byskolan, Stavsnäs Living in and through dance, book presentation
2023-10-14 Weld, Stockholm Living in and through dance, book presentation
2023-10-12 – 2023-10-13 The Berlin Forum for Democracy and Peace, Berlin Viewing a Crash Site or Jumping the Broom, invited speaker Download pdf
2023-10-12 European Cultural Parliament, Berlin
Annual meeting for members
2023-10-08 Beyond all words, Fylkingen, Stockholm Ha, ha, ha, performance
2023-09-28 Danscentrum Syd, Malmö Living in and through dance, members' night
2023-09-26 – 2023-09-27 Palladium, Malmö Love's Conversation is Dance, performance
2023-09-19 Dance teacher program, Gothenburg University Living in and through dance, book presentation
2023-09-02 – 2023-11-05 Expedition Art, group exhibition Luleå Art Gallery A Dance on the Arctic Ice, video work
2023-08-18 Beyond all words, Fylkingen, Stockholm Ha, ha, ha, performance
2023-08-15 Danscentrum Väst, Gothenburg Living in and through dance, members' night
2023-07-21 – 2023-07-23 ImPulsTanz Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices, Vienna
LACE #1: Topographies of Touch, moderator
2023-07-15 Blidö bio, Blidö Think, Talk, Act and Enjoy! Performance
2023-06-15 – 2023-08-24 Expedition Konst, group exhibition Lidköpings konsthall A Dance on the Arctic Ice, video work
2023-04-28 Artistic Research Center at MDW, Vienna
Seminar and workshop
2023-04-20 TQW DOC+, Wien Love’s Conversation is Dance, conversational workshop
2023-04-19 Angewandte Wien Choreographing the Day, Leaving the Night Alone, seminar on artworks by Efva Lilja
2023-04-14 – 2023-04-30 Residency at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory. (APL), Vienna
Lectures, exhibition, workshops
2023-04-14 – 2023-04-15 APL Angerwandte, Vienna
Dialogue partner to Mariella Greil in her project Narrations of Bare Bodies
2023-03-30 Studio Silk, Jönköping
Participation in talk on cultural policies
2023-03-28 Panorama seminar MA, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg Viewing a crash site or jumping the broom, lecture
2023-03-11 – 2023-05-14 Dalslands Konstmuseum, Åsensbruk To liberate the thinking by drawing, exhibition
2023-03-06 Danscentrum Syd, Malmö Moving Mountains, seminar
2023-02-17 Blomsterfonden Svalnäs, Danderyd Love's Conversation is Dance, performative reading
2023-02-01 Receiving His Majesty the King's medal Litteris et Artibus of the eighth size at a ceremony at Stockholm Palace
2022-11-24 Higher Seminar, Karlstad University, Karlstad Dance, dance, float as if on a cloud… A performative talk about art as a socially subversive declaration of love
2022-11-08 Grenna museum Think, talk, act and enjoy! performance
2022-10-03 Danscentrum Väst, Gothenburg
About Love’s Conversation is Dance, member evening
2022-09-30 – 2022-10-02 Atalante, Göteborg Love’s Conversation is Dance, Performance
2022-09-19 Receiving the Gannevik scholarship, Stockholm
2022-09-12 Performing Arts Days for Children and Youth, Administration for culture development, Gothenburg Paradise of the Disobedient, lecture and workshop Download pdf
2022-08-15 – 2022-08-28 MARC, Knislinge UTSIKTSPLATS/ Point of View – on the notion of being aware, residency and performances
2022-06-20 Kristiania University College, Oslo Artistic Research – for whom? Lecture, ISK seminar on artistic development work
2022-05-09 École d'architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est, Paris Crash Sites of New Relations, participation in panel discussion
2022-04-23 Stockholms Kulturnatt, Mäster Olofsgården, Stockholm Love’s Conversation is Dance, Reading
2022-04-07 – 2022-04-08 Understanding Practice, ZFF Angewandte, Wien Think, Talk, Act and Enjoy! Performance and lecture
2022-03-24 – 2022-04-04 Konsthallen Stockholm Love’s Conversation is Dance - images
2022-03-24 Kvadrennalen, Retorikkabinett, Färgfabriken, Stockholm With Love, Performance
2022-03-17 – 2022-03-20 weld Stockholm Love’s Conversation is Dance - dance
2022-03-10 Rönnells Antikvariat in collaboration with Appell förlag, Stockholm Kärlekens samtal är dans – book, book release
2022-03-06 Stavsnäs Konst- och kultur, Byskolan, Stavsnäs Love’s Conversation is Dance, Reading
2022-03-03 School of Architecture, Stockholm Listening to the common place, lecture
2022-02-03 – 2022-02-05 Dansens hus, Stockholm
Participation in Dirgy Dancing, a project by Lisen Ellard
Watch the solo on Youtube
2021-11-05 – 2021-11-06 PEERS 2021, ZHDK, Zürich You are not Alone, lecture, workshop and mentoring on artistic research
2021-11-04 In Memory of Composer Tommy Zwedberg, Fylkingen, Stockholm A Voice, performance
2021-10-30 – 2022-02-27 Expedition Konst, Group exhibition, Waldemarsudde Stockholm A Dance on the Arctic Ice, video work
2021-10-21 Royal College of Music, MA students, Stockholm You are not alone, lecture on artistic research
2021-10-02 – 2021-10-13 Anniversary Exhibition Konsthallen 20 Years, Stockholm A Walk, a painted triptych
2021-09-29 Stockholm University of the Arts, MA students, Stockholm You are not alone, digital lecture on artistic research
2021-09-25 Kummelholmen, Stockholm With Love, solo performance
2021-09-12 – 2021-09-16 Dansens hus, Stockholm
Prepatory work and rehearsals for Dirgy Dancing, a project by Lisen Ellard.
2021-08-01 Byskolan, Stavsnäs Think, Talk, Act and Enjoy!, solo performance
2021-06-25 – 2021-07-04 The Festival of Regions, Austria
Two new worka: With Love…
and Think, Talk, Act and Enjoy!
2021-05-10 – 2021-06-24 CultureNauts, The Festival of Regions, Austria
Preparatory for a commissioned work for the 2021 Festival
2021-05-02 Koreografiska konstitutet, Marabouparken, Sollentuna
Participation in panel discussion about artistic research
2021-03-20 – 2021-03-28 Konsthallen Stockholm To Touch and Stir, Solo Exhibition Download pdf
2021-03-16 mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, TRANSCRIPT, Independent Academic Publishing, digital Pot Calling the Kettle Black, public reading in connection with the release of the book: Knowing in Performing
2021-02-16 Stockholms Kulturförvaltning What's good in art?, lecture (in Swedish)
2021-02-12 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm Artistic Intervention in Public Spaces, Lecture
2021-01-18 – 2021-01-31 CultureNauts, The Festival of Regions, Austria - CANCELLED
Preparatory for a commissioned work for the 2021 Festival
2020-11-27 – 2020-11-28 Disorderly Woman, Berlin - CANCELLED
Network meeting
2020-10-24 – 2020-10-25 Installation/Performance, weld, Stockholm Between Desperation, Isolation and the Liberating Sexuality Download pdf
2020-10-09 – 2020-10-18 CultureNauts, The Festival of Regions, Austria - CANCELLED
Preparatory for a commissioned work for the 2021 Festival
2020-09-14 – 2020-09-18 Department of Design, KHiO, Oslo Delade rum/Transformative spaces, digital performing lecture, seminar and workshop
2020-08-29 Festival, Djurö Konst och Kultur, Stavsnäs Ett steg efter ett annat, ett ord efter ett annat (One step after another, one word after another), dance/poem
2020-03-10 AR@K, Højskolen Kristiania, Oslo The Hidden, Keynote
2020-02-22 – 2020-03-01 Solo Exhibition Konsthall Stockholm Thinking by Hand Download pdf
2020-02-07 Uniarts Stockholm To Take the Lead, On empowerment and artistic leadership, seminar
2020-01-21 – 2020-01-23 Den Danske Scenekunstskolen, Oddsherre What Makes Sense? On the notion of practice in relation to in-depth research in the arts
2020-01-15 DIS, Dance in Stockholm City and County Who wants to join? Who gets to join? On the role of art in civil society
2020-01-13 Dansalliansen To Take the Lead On empowerment and artistic leadership
2019-12-03 Uniarts Stockholm What is There to be Told? On writing practices in the arts, seminar
2019-11-25 weld, Stockholm Meet, Eat and Talk (by invitation only)
2019-10-30 KhiO, Oslo
AT Passage Seminar, speaker
2019-10-28 weld, Stockholm Meet, Eat and Talk (by invitation only)
2019-10-26 D.A.R. Dance and Research, Accademia nazionale di Danza, Rome The Hidden Key Note Speaker at “Percorsi di ricerca nell'arte coreutica performative”
2019-10-21 ZHDK, Zürich, PhD colloquium on artistic research in performing arts What Makes Sense? On the notion of language in relation to in-depth research in performing arts and its outreach, key note speaker/performing lecture
2019-10-04 – 2019-09-13 Konsthall Stockholm Desire, exhibiting new paintings
2019-09-30 weld, Stockholm Meet, Eat and Talk (by invitation only)
2019-09-20 Dansehallerne at Museion, Copenhagen
A conversation with Eva Meyer Keller
2019-09-07 Polish Dance Platform Gdansk 2019 Galopp, Galopp! On the art of dance and the civil society in development
panelist and speaker
2019-02-02 Teckningsmuseet, Laholm
Opening the exhibition of Georg Lagerstedt, Rörelsefröjden och rytmen i blodet
2019-01-31 Djurö Konst och Kultur, Stavsnäs Who Needs Art?
on art as political power and social interaction
2019-01-19 – 2019-01-22 Bådteatret Köpenhamn
Medverkan som dansare i Speech(less), en experimentell praktik av Annika Kompart
2018-11-14 University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Workshop on grant writing, artistic research
2018-10-19 Djurö/Stavsnäs Konst och Kultur, Byskolan, Stavsnäs
Fairy tails for adults: There is a cow in my house
Exhibiting new drawings
2018-10-08 – 2018-10-09 Gaining New Perspective: exercises for body and mind, Danseatelier Rotterdam Sing a Song or Scream Out Loud, performing lecture, Keynote
2018-09-21 – 2018-09-22 Dance Round Table Berlin
Invited for a panel discussion
2018-09-14 Experiment Speech(less), Førsøksstationen, Copenhagen
Invited as a dancer for an experiment
2018-09-04 – 2018-09-06 The Warsaw Forum, Theatre Scena Prezentacje, Warsaw
Invited guest for a conversation on audiences, art and democracy
2018-05-28 International Board meeting HZT, Berlin
2018-05-17 Riksteatern, Stockholm
Invited for think-tank on art-policies
2018-04-22 60 seconds Dance Film Award Ceremony, Danish Film institute, Copenhagen
Part of jury and presenting first prize award
2018-02-23 – 2018-02-24 Djurö/Stavsnäs Konst och Kultur, Byskolan, Stavsnäs
Fairy tails for adults: There is a cow in my house
2018-01-25 Tutke research seminar, Uniarts Helsinki When Cultural Policies are failing, Keynote Download pdf
2017-10-26 The Library, Dalarna Universitet, Falun, Sweden Why don't birds fly backwards? On art and the technologies of listening, lecture
2017-10-15 Author Talks, Biograf Fokus, City Library, Jönköping, Sweden Choreographing the Day, Leaving the Night Aside – An apology for Dance
2017-10-14 Nordisk berättardag, Föreningen Norden, Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden Choreographing the Day, Leaving the Night Aside – An apology for Dance
2017-09-02 – 2017-09-09 The Cortona Week, ETH Zürich, Cortona, Italy Workshop
2017-05-29 International Board, HZT, Berlin Expert advisor
2017-05-24 – 2017-05-28 Trans Atlantic Diplomacy: European artists in the Transatlantic cultural relationship, Luxemburg Spit, Shit, Bleed, Argue, Move and Weep, lecture
2017-05-20 Efter- og Vidareuddannelsen, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen To Whom is Art Relevant? seminar and workshop
2017-03-25 Performance Feast #5, DANSEatelier, Copenhagen A Conversation, performance
2017-03-23 Aesthetic Training Day, Mölnlycke Culture House, Hulebäck Upper Secondary School, Mölnlycke, Sweden On the Techniques of Listening, lecture, film and workshop
2017-03-17 Leadership Development, Södertörn University, Stockholm Att gå först (To go first), lecture
2016-12-13 – 2016-12-14 Error Network Symposium, arranged by Leeds University's Performance and Cultural Industries School and Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, Leeds, England Dispatched to Your Branch in Error - The Pitfalls of Ambiguity, Keynote/performing lecture
2016-11-26 Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden Kärlekens samtal är dans, performing lecture
2016-10-19 – 2016-10-22 ARTS WITHOUT BORDERS? University of the Arts and CERADA, Helsinki, Finland Hi! What are you looking for? Key note/Performing lecture
2016-10-13 – 2016-10-16 Dance Education Tendencies and Perspectives, at The Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius, Lithuania The Moon is Just Another Body, Key note
2016-09-30 – 2016-10-02 ECP, European Cultural Parliament, Batumi, Georgia The Artist as facilitators of Change, workshop
2016-09-25 weld, Stockholm, Sweden Att koreografera dagen och låta natten vara – en apologi för dansen, new book by Efva Lilja, ellerströms publishing company, book presentation and signing
2016-09-08 Jubilee Forum day of Higher Arts and Music Education, Rome, Italy
Invited by the Italian Ministry of Education and research to give a talk on “works” for mercy: reconsidering human outskirts, arts, music and architecture
2016-09-03 – 2016-09-10 UNCERTAINTY & SERENDIPITY, The Cortona week, arranged by ZhdK in Cortona, Italy Smitten by art, lecture
To make the impossible possible - On artistic creation in troubled times, workshop
2016-07-02 Undisciplining Dance Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand The Artists as Facilitators of Change Performing lecture – Keynote/Performing lecture
2016-07-01 Tertiary Dance Festival, Auckland, New Zealand A House, A Cow, A Woman Performance
2016-06-30 Undisciplining Dance Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand Have a Blast: On Art, Research and Empowerment Performing lecture – Keynote
2016-06-27 – 2016-06-29 Aotearoa, Tertiary Dance Festival, Auckland, New Zealand The unfolding of choreographic practice in relation to other practices
2016-06-25 – 2016-06-26 Wellesly Street Studios, Auckland, New Zealand To make the impossible possible - On artistic creation in troubled times Workshop
2016-06-18 Folkemøde, Bornholm, Denmark
debate: Kroppen husker – dans i dialog
2016-05-23 HZT/UdK and AREAL, Berlin, Germany Beyond the Ordinary, Performing lecture
2016-04-19 Scenekunstskolen Århus, Denmark On art, Research and Empowerment, lecture
2016-04-07 Nordic Urban Laboratory, Textile Fashion Center, Borås, Sweden What does the arts do? Lecture
2016-03-15 Scenekunstskolen Copenhagen, Denmark On Art, Research and Empowerment, lecture
2016-02-12 American College, Athens, Greece Beyond the Ordinary Performing lecture
2016-02-11 American College, Athens, Greece To make the impossible possible On artistic creation in troubled times and political activism through art, workshop
2016-01-27 "How are you feeling, Nordic Region? – Sustainability via welfare, culture and gender equality", The Nordic Council of Ministers, Åbo, Finland The Good Society Needs Art Lecture
2015-11-27 Kulturförvaltningen, Göteborg On love and choreography as practice and wild, unbridled living Seminar
2015-11-27 Dance days Kultur & Fritid, Vänersborg
Seminar
2015-11-26 Kultur i Väst, Göteborg When cows fall from the sky… Lecture/workshop
2015-11-10 Frank Forum, Akademin Valand, Göteborg
Seminar
2015-10-30 German Society of Dance Research, GTF, Conference on practice as research, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg Beyond the Ordinary, On artistic research and subversive actions through dance, Performing Lecture, Keynote
2015-10-14 Conferências Investigação em Artes, Archeological Museum i Lissabon Researching the Irony of Distortion Lecture
2015-10-07 KHiO, theme day on artistic research, Oslo Could it be a Cow? Lecture and panel debate
2015-09-12 – 2015-09-20 Autumn exhibition, Värmdö konstnärer, Gustavsberg Porslinsmuseum Sore Soles on Wrong Floors (ink and pencil on paper)
2015-09-06 – 2015-09-10 Solo Exhibition Galleri Örhänget, Stockholm I språkets utmarker Opening September 6 at 2–4 pm
2015-09-05 Institutionen, Samlingen, Kulturhuset City Theatre, Stockholm
Participation in round table talks
2015-08-31 – 2015-11-01 Instituto Cini in Venice
Participating in the exhibition Imago Mundi with the piece The Dilemma of Santa, 2015 (Hair, fluorescent color, confetti and a Santa) About the exhibition at the Imago Mundi website
2015-07-01 Akademiska hus in the Architectical Garden, Almedalen. Seminar: Urban Ecosystems for innovation, what and who constructs the structure? On the artist as a political agent, lecture and participation in panel debate
2015-01-31 – 2015-04-20 Dansens hus, Stockholm Why Bother to Dance? Exhibition in the entrance hall
2015-01-27 Norwegian Artistic Research program, Oslo, Norway
Board meeting
2015-01-10 APAP, New York, USA Higher Education and the Global Market, a panel debate
2014-12-06 Stockholm University of the Arts, higher seminar Thinking language, a conversation on body, rhythm and language
2014-12-01 Committée for Regional Development for Dance, Stockholm
On Dance and its Political Bewilderment
2014-11-26 SITE, Stockholm, Art and Culture – goal or tool?
Panel Debate
2014-11-19 Swedish Television
There's a Cow in my House, lecture and film
2014-10-14 – 2014-10-17 School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm There is a Flying Cow in the City Center, Performing lecture, seminar and a walk
2014-09-14 Election Night, Riksteatern, Södra teatern, Stockholm
Panel debate on cultural policies
2014-08-27 Att inte vända kappan efter vinden eller Det gäller att stå upp när det blåser
An informal seminar on artistic research for participants from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education.
2014-07-03 Swedish Performing Arts, Swedish Championship in Culture Politics, Almedalen
2014-07-01 Event by Folkets Hus och Parker, Riksteatern, ABF, Vuxenskolan, Timbro and Arena. Debate between Sverker Sörlin, Efva Lilja, Per Gudmundsson, Daniel Suhonen and Kristian Lundberg in Almedalen. What is really the use of education today?
2014-05-29 – 2014-06-01 The Public Commons and the Undercommons of Art, Education, and Labor, Frankfurt LAB and University of Giessen Shaking the System by Action, lecture
2014-05-27 Uniarts Helsinki: Tutke Spring Days, annual doctoral seminar Have a Blast - On art, research and empowerment, Key Note Speaker.
2014-05-27 University of the Arts Helsinki/TEAK, Research seminar "Art, Research, Empowerment"
2014-05-15 Göteborgs dans och teaterfestival, INBLICK On quality in art, education and culture politics, panel discussion.
2014-04-04 Theatre Days Riksteatern What happens to art when artists do research? On the role of art for cultural and social development.
2014-01-28 Ice Cold, The Body Project, K.R.O.P.P. Uppsala Conferens & Congress Dance in a Frozen Landscape
2013-11-22 Det Europeiska Projektets Framtid - om kulturens roll för utbildning, forskning och samhällsengagemang, Europahuset Stockholm Vad händer med konsten när konstnärer forskar? Om konstens roll för kulturell och samhällelig utveckling.
2013-11-11 – 2013-11-17 Weld Stockholm Hi, How are you? A work for The Weld Company Project Read more...
2013-10-07 3:e våningen, Gothenburg Singing in Head Wind – a lecture performance. Efva Lilja about her approach to choreography through dance, words and images.
2013-08-15 – 2013-08-16 August Kulturfestivalen Stockholm, Walks Choreographing the City. A tour of Stockholm with Efva Lilja. Download pdf
2013-05-16 Conservatoire Cherubini in Florence, Italy
Conference on artistic research in music on occasion of the founding of RAMI - Associazione per la Ricerca Musicale in Italia. A Societal Survival Strategy, a vision on artistic research, Key note speaker.
2013-04-23 Senioruniversitetet, ABF huset, Stockholm Danskonst i fruset landskap. Lecture and video.
2013-04-15 LABBTANKEN, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
KU seminar The Body as an Archive in an Art Laboratory. Download pdf
2013-04-13 – 2013-05-02 The Arts Research Institute of Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
in cooperation with Stichting Caucasus Foundation, the SHARE network and ELIA, present The Fourth International Scientific Conference for scholars from the fields of Arts Sciences, Arts Practice, and Cultural Management, Policy and Tourism. Chew at the edge of Worries, A performing lecture, Key note speaker. The Arts Research Institute of Ilia State University »
2013-03-15 Dance4, Nottdance Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University What's in it for the artist? Key note speaker.
2013-03-07 Academy of Music and Drama, Lindgrensalen, Gothenburg
Member of the review committee, artistic defense, composer Sten Sandell: Inside the silence.
2013-02-20 The (Re)Sounding Experiment, Traces, Faces and Spaces of Artistic Research, Orpheus Research Centre, Gent Dance doesn't exist, Key Note Presentation, A Performing Lecture
2013-01-25 – 2013-01-26 Movement in Literacy/Literacy in movement, DAAD, Köln Dance Into Articulation, Key Note Presentation, A Performing Lecture
2012-11-20 Konstfack, Stockholm What's in it for the artist? A performing lecture on artistic research, methodologies and the tricky question on documentation.
2012-10-19 Oslo National Academy of the Arts, symposium on choreography
On choreography in the contemporary development of society
2012-06-20 Swedish Teachers' Union, Lärardagarna 2012, Bålsta Do You Get What I'm not Saying? About love and choreography in learning - or as practice and wild, rampant living. Film/dance/talk
2012-06-06 The Role of Culture in Time of Crisis, The Egg, Brussels, Belgium A Societal Survival Strategy, performing lecture
2012-06-05 Swedish Arts Council, Almedalen
Panel discussion: Is creativity profitable?
2012-05-22 Open Screen, Göteborgs dans och teaterfestival
Homeward Bound
2012-04-21 Dansens hus Culture Night
Efva Lilja will guide tours of her exhibition Choroegraphy as Text and Other Signs at 8pm and 9.30pm.
2012-04-19 Existential filmfestival, Dalarna University, Falun
Participation in panel discussion about the film The Black Swan.
2012-04-04 Face2Face, Dansens hus, Stockholm
Conversation between Virve Sutinen, Head of Theatre at Dansens hus, and Efva Lilja
2012-03-23 Street Arts Winter Academy, University of Winchester
Key Note speaker on Artistic Research
2012-03-06 Länsmusiken Stockholm
Lecture followed by a discussion with the audience
"Un-necessities spread out amongst all the worry and the glitter blinds you. With all the sparkle you become myopic and your existence narrows down to trifles. It?s easy to lose yourself in all that is for sale. How can art contribute to keep your eyes open and your lust alive?"
2012-03-05 – 2012-03-08 Danscentrum, Stockholm
Repertoire classes and seminars
2012-03-02 Entrepreneurship for Art
Seminar as part of a course at University of Gothenburg in collaboration with Nätverkstaden
2012-02-27 – 2012-02-28 European Cultural Taskforce
Team Culture 2012 first meeting in Copenhagen
2012-01-19 – 2012-04-23 Dansens hus, Stockholm
Exhibition: On Choreography as Text and Other Signs.
Efva Lilja continues her exploration of choreographic strategies in drawings that becomes stories of their own in both still and moving images.
2011-12-09 – 2011-12-17 Dansens hus/Forsgrenska badet Stockholm
Man to Man Read more...
2011-12-01 – 2011-12-11 InShadow – International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies, VoArte, São Luiz Teatro Municipal Lissabon
Homeward Bound
2011-11-08 Konstfack, Stockholm
Lecture and film: On Dance as a Subversive Declaration of Love
2011-10-31 TONSPRÅK, Vänersborg
What is the most beautiful thing you know? lectures, film, workshops
2011-10-21 Swedish Teachers' Union University Conference, Bergendals Training Centre Who think they know what? about art and practice-based research
2011-10-12 Voksenåsen, Oslo. Fellowship in the arts.
Lecture: "Plurality – Delimitation – Politics" – professional praxis in relation to artistic research and artistic research in relation to national policies.
2011-08-02 COMNAP, Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm
A Dance from the North
2011-05-29 Flytande Galleriet, Malmö
Konst i offentliga rum, seminarium och filmvisning
2011-04-29 Modes of Collaboration Between Arts and Sciences, ZHDK Zürich
Panel discussion
2011-04-28 – 2011-05-01 WestFest Performance Series, Westbeth's Brecht Forum, New York City
Homeward Bound
2011-03-23 Centre for the Studies of Children's Culture, Stockholm University Myrornas krig? about unspoken power, impotency, chaos and cows in art
2011-03-16 Folkuniversitetet, Visby
On the art of dance, love and choreography as practice and a wild, unbridled way of life – an evening in words, movement and visuals with choreographer Efva Lilja
2011-01-23 Forecasting the Future Experience of Opera, Reaktorhallen KTH Stockholm
On Dance as a Subversive Declaration of Love, film
2011-01-20 SUHF course in higher leadership, Villa Söderås, Lidingö
Workshop
2010-12-07 SALK, KTH Stockholm Stigfinnare, on the creative leadership
2010-12-03 – 2010-12-05 Extension.art-2, International Culture Project Arts Resident, Moscow
Homeward Bound
2010-12-01 Inter Arts Center, Malmö
Swedish Research Council symposium on artistic research: The art of conversation. Panel discussion on artistic research as autonomous, complementary, performative.
2010-11-17 Nacka municipality development day for heads of culture departments, Vår gård, Saltsjöbaden Vanvett i den vardagliga idyllen, about art and how our everyday lives bedome more exciting to live.
2010-11-13 SUHF course in higher leadership, Villa Söderås, Lidingö Stigfinnare, on the creative leadership
2010-11-02 Royal Institute of Art
Opponent on master project Julia Bondesson
2010-10-21 – 2010-10-24 1º Seminário Internacional Dança na Maturidade, Lissabon, Portugal
2010-10-15 – 2010-10-16 T-junction International Video Dance Biennal, Filmhaus Nürnberg, Germany
Homeward Bound
2010-10-07 Royal Institute of Art, Liberating artistic practices
Lecture, film and discussion on artistry
2010-09-07 University of Gothenburg, faculty of the arts
Opponent on 75% doctor's thesis Elisabeth Belgrano
2010-08-07 Paradiso 4 festival, Turteatern, Kärrtorp
Efva Lilja reads her new texts, talks about dance and shows film. Swedish Champion in Poetry Slam reads earlier texts by Efva Lilja.
2010-07-14 Sans Souci Festival, Barcelona
Homeward Bound
2010-05-21 – 2010-05-22 Highways Performance Space&Gallery, Santa Monica, California USA
Homeward Bound
2010-05-08 – 2010-05-09 Teater Kaskad in Blackeberg
Festival Naken shows films by Efva Lilja. Programme available at www.offstockholm.se
2010-04-30 Skansen, Stockholm
Efva Lilja performs the traditional greeting to the spring at the Walpurgis Night celebrations at the open-air museum Skansen, at 14.50.
2010-04-29 Workshop with students at the BA education Dancers program
Studio Metsis in Athens
2010-04-28 Dance - A Subversive Declaration of Love
A performance in dance, film, poetry at theatre KINITIRAS in Athens
2010-04-27 The Unspeakable
Where does love take us and what does knowledge mean to the act of creation?
Exhibition of sketches, scores, films and a seminar about and with Efva Lilja at the Swedish Institute in Athens.
2010-03-22 “Vi möts här och där, i hällregn och tvivel”
(We meet here and there, in pouring rain and in doubt) Text, dance and film by and with Efva Lilja, Haiti gala at House of Dance, Stockholm
2010-02-17 Work in Progress
ÖS! Open studio at the University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm
2010-02-08 On Dance as a Subversive Declaration of Love
Art as a strategy of survival in the lives of children and youth. Seminar, workshop and film. "Tonspråk" in Karlstad, Concerts Sweden.
2010-02-08 Dance as a Subversive Declaration of Love
Seminar and workshop, Tonspråk Concerts Sweden, Karlstad University
2010-01-19 Choreography as practice and a wild, unbridled way of life
Seminar and film, University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre, Stockholm
2009-11-18 Sensus, Stockholm
"Who expresses what many means but nobody says?" Efva Lilja talks about a future vision of the art of dance and circus in releation to education and research.
2009-11-09 Why walking backward when you can run like hell?
Dance, talk and film by and with Efva Lilja. Sörmlands musik och teater, Eskilstuna
2009-10-01 – 2009-10-27 Scalamata Exhibition Space, Venice
Film: Walking the Mist, a new video by Efva Lilja
2009-08-30 Polar Prize Seminar, Stockholm Concert Hall
Efva Lilja participates in a panel discussion with this year's laureate Maestro José Antonio Abreus
2009-08-29 International Poetry Festival, Visby A Subversive Declaration of Love By and with Choreographer Efva Lilja, in dance, in words, in images
2009-07-15 Warsaw Music Gardens A Dance on the Arctic Ice and Homeward Bound Two dance films by Efva Lilja are shown during the festival in Warsaw in a program presented by the Swedish Embassy
2009-05-27 The Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras, Greece
Movement as the Memory of the Body, film
2009-05-18 The City Hall of Stockholm, Efva Lilja is awarded the S:t Erik medal
"For pioneering efforts in choreographic composition and for fostering young dancers". The ceremony will take place in The City Hall of Stockholm.
2009-05-15 – 2009-05-17 Galleri Forum, Stockholm
Choreography to the installation TWIST by artist Monica Höll. Dancer Danny Westlund.
2009-05-07 Umeå universitet, Umeå
Seminar on artistic research. ”Throw the Stones Really Hard at Your Target or Rest in Peace”.
2009-04-26 Moderna Dansteatern, SITE, Stockholm
DansDemo with a concluding talk. Efva Lilja will share her thoughts on contemporary dance art and its development in an international perspective.
2009-04-23 – 2009-04-24 ELIA Zürich, seminar Threw the Stones Really Hard at Your Target or Rest in Peace On the artist's struggle to gain access to research in her art.
2009-03-20 Sixth Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, USA
Homeward Bound, film
2009-02-24 – 2009-02-25 Palladium Malmö
Mass Manna
2009-02-24 Pusterviksteatern, Göteborg
Mass Manna
2009-02-23 The Concert Hall, Växjö
Mass Manna
2009-02-23 Växjö estetiska gymnasium
A talk on dance and artistry, and workshop. Dans i vilda sinnen, film.
2009-02-21 The Concert Hall, Växjö
Mass Manna, original performance nytt of new piece for dance/circus solist and Musica Vitae Read more...
2009-01-30 Dans i vilda sinnen, Stockholms Estetiska gymnasium
A talk on dance. Film.
2009-01-12 – 2009-01-14 Contemporary on Ice, Kungsträdgården Stockholm
A Dance on the Arctic Ice (film)
2008-11-06 – 2008-11-07 Danse Lab, Den Haag, Holland
Among the Restless and Uneasy, lecture and supervision of choreographers in discussions on artistic research
2008-10-29 ELIA conference, opening ceremony, Göteborg's Concert Hall
Burst Before We Break, in collaboration with composer Staffan Mossenmark and students from The University College of Music, Göteborg and The University College of Dance, Stockholm Read more...
2008-10-24 Danshögskolan University College of Dance, Stockholm
Participation in panel discussion on dance film
2008-10-19 – 2008-10-25 Orphei drängar's tour in Canada and USA: Toronto, Chicago,Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver
Choreography to Magic Songs by Murray Schaefer
2008-10-02 Creative Spaces, Umeå universitet, Umeå seminarium
Moving Among Movers, film
2008-09-26 In/Scissions, Festival of Emerging Arts, London
Holds no Memory
2008-09-23 Dramatiska institutet, course for film directing students
Choreography as practice and wild, unbridled living, seminar and film
2008-09-05 Kedja, Copenhagen
Participation in panel discussion about education in choreography in the Nordic countries
2008-09-04 Kedja, Copenhagen lecture/main speaker
Intuition, Subjectivity and the Clash with the Objectives or Who is the Choreographer?
2008-04-25 ”The Dance Party” Jönköping City Library
The Unspeakable – On lust, disgust, expectation and other things that make life worth living A lecture in words images and movement, film
2008-04-23 Orphei drängar spring tour, Stockholm concert hall
Choreography to part of the programme: Magic Songs by Murrey Schafer
2008-04-19 Orphei drängar spring tour, Uppsala concert hall
Choreography to part of the programme: Magic Songs by Murrey Schafer
2008-04-17 – 2008-04-18 Premier conference for higher education in composition in the Nordic and Baltic states, Malmö Academy of Music
Where does love take us and what does knowledge mean to the act of creation?
2008-04-17 Conference on education in composition, The Academy of Music in Malmö
Lecture
2008-04-10 Orphei drängar spring tour, De Geer hallen Norrköping
Choreography to part of the programme: Magic Songs by Murrey Schafer
2008-04-01 Reflekterad praktisk pedagogik, Södertörn University College
Myrornas krig, about unspoken power, powerlessness and cows in the art
2008-02-16 The University College of Dance, single subject course about dance in school
Madness in the Everyday Idyll – and more, seminar and film Download lecture in Swedish (pdf)
2008-02-05 The Art Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Lecture and Film on Artistic Research: Cow on the ice!
2008-01-17 Lecture about dance production for a youth audience, The University College of Dance, Stockholm
Madness in the Everyday Idyll, film
2007-12-03 Lecture for JVM: To Live Reality
Film: Homeward Bound, Performance: Memory and rope solo
2007-11-27 Northwind Festival, Dock11, Berlin
Homeward Bound
2007-11-27 Centre Culturel Suedoise, Paris
Homeward Bound
2007-11-13 Staging: the interface between the artist, the artwork and the public, Konsthögskolan, University of Umeå, Sweden
Performing Reality - The Challenge of Staging the Every Day Life, a seminar and film screening
2007-11-08 Akademiska hus, Stockholm, Sweden Kunskapens dag
Lecture: Ett mellanrum
2007-11-02 University College of Dance, Stockholm
Lecture on the art of dance in school: On lust, disgust, expectation and other things that create meaning in life, video
2007-10-25 Kiasma Helsingfors, Carnegie Art Award
Rumble Fish, dancer/circus performer Irena Purschke, musician Jonny Axelsson
2007-10-24 – 2007-10-27 WELD, Stockholm, Sweden
An encounter between the choreographers Anna Koch and Efva Lilja. N.B. the dates: 24, 26 and 27 of October. Read more...
2007-10-20 – 2007-10-21 Shoot Dance For Screen Light 2007, Moderna Museet Stockholm
Homeward Bound
2007-10-16 Swedish Research Council, Stockholm, Sweden
Lecture on Artistic Research: Cow on the ice!
2007-10-10 – 2007-10-12 The Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland Challenging the Notion of Knowledge Conference
Lecture and Film: Cow on the Ice!
2007-10-07 The Royal Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
Lecture and Film: On DANCE or Madness in the Every day Idyll
2007-09-30 Pro Arte Institute, S:t Petersburg
Lecture and Films: A Dance on the Arctic Ice, Using the Eye in the Middle of Your Head, The Memory and excerpts from the repertory of Efva Lilja
2007-09-29 – 2007-10-21 S:t Petersburg Water Museum, S:t Petersburg, Russia, The Festival Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum
Film: Homeward Bound
2007-09-22 – 2007-09-23 Shanghai Dance 2007, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center
Performance: The Outmost White. Films: A Dance on the Arctic Ice and Homeward Bound
2007-09-18 University College of Dance, Stockholm, Sweden
Open Rehearsal of The Outmost White before take off to China
2007-09-06 Dansens hus, Stockholm, Sweden
The opening of an exhibition by 30 Swedish choreographers, who each contributes with a box filled with what inspires them in their work.
2007-08-14 – 2007-09-02 Oi Futuro, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
Film: Homeward Bound
2007-07-06 – 2007-07-08 12th annual American Dance Festival Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, USA
Film: Homeward Bound
2007-05-10 – 2007-05-11 MADE festival Umeå
Homeward Bound and the documentary film about The Illuminated Dream Aflame, The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.
2006-11-15 Artists on Artistic research
An evening at University College of Dance, Stockholm. Performance: Holds no Memory and lecture on artistic research.
2006-11-06 – 2006-11-07 The 14th Quinzena de Dança de Almada
Contemporary Dance Festival, Almada, Portugal Film: Homeward Bound.
2006-10-30 Akvarellmuseet, Tjörn
Why don’t cows fly? A lecture on dance, video and performance: The Memory
2006-10-24 Artist programme for fellowships in the arts
Kunsthogskolen i Bergen, Voksenåsen, Oslo, Norway. Lecture: Artistic Research, video
2006-10-07 Challenging the Notion of Knowledge
Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland. Seminar on Artistic Research
2006-10-06 Challenging the Notion of Knowledge
Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland. Seminar on Artistic Research
2006-10-01 – 2006-10-02 Dance for kamera, Ultima Festival, Oslo
Film: Homeward Bound
2006-09-28 – 2006-09-30 University College of Dance, Stockholm
Performance: Beyond the Pale
2006-09-23 Ultima Festival, Oslo, Norway
Film: Homeward Bound
2006-09-22 Akademiskt forum på Kulturhuset
Om Lust och njutning. Föreställning Minnet.
2006-09-01 Multi Plie Festival, Trondheim, Norway
Performance: With the Eye in the Middle of Your Head. Lecture: Dance For Better, For Worse, video. Workshop.
2006-07-26 Full Moon Festival, Pyhäjärvi, Finland
Performance: With the Eye in the Middle of Your Head.
2006-05-22 – 2006-05-28 Produkt, Moderna dansteatern, Stockholm
Participating as choreographer and dancer in a project on artistic creation with public performances the 26th-28th.
2006-05-12 – 2006-05-15 Pixel Dance Video Art Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Film: Homeward Bound
2006-05-12 Dansbiennalen 2006, Göteborg
Film: Homeward Bound
2006-05-11 – 2006-05-13 Il Coreografo Elettronico XIV Festival Internazionale di Videodanza, Napels, Italy
Film: Homeward Bound, 1st price!
2006-05-02 – 2006-05-03 The Place, London, England
Performances: Holds no Memory and With the Eye in the Middle of Your Head. Film: Homeward Bound
2006-04-22 Performing Arts Festival, Norrköping
Lecture: On Dance or Madness in the Everyday Idyll, video
2006-04-18 Akvarellmuseet, Högskolan för design och konsthantverk, Göteborg
Lecture: On Dance or Madness in the Everyday Idyll, video
2006-01-19 University College of Dance, Stockholm
Film: Homeward Bound
weld, Stockholm Meet, Eat and Talk (by invitation only)
