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- With a classical education, I haven't felt confident enough to improvise in years.
- I dream of touring with my favorite jazz musicians like Joel Ross and Aaron Parks.
- I'm really hoping I'll be spending lots of time in the studio working with different artists and bringing their ideas to life!
From September 2023 until November 2024 you can visit the exhibition "Fabulous Animals" at Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger.
Extraordinary gold find from the 6th century discovered on the island of Rennesøy, Stavanger.
Our new Viking exhibition, focused on myths and stories from the Viking Period, opens Friday 25th of August. The current Viking exhibition is closed until the opening.
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Environmental changes from generation to generation aren’t always visible. A new research project exploring natural resources on our coasts aims to open our eyes to what we are losing.
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Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress accessories typical of a Viking Age woman was delivered to the museum. Now the archaeologists may have traced the origin of the jewellery.
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A unique type of Viking Age sword with spectacular ornamentation has been found in Stavanger. The closest parallel is a sword from the island Eigg in Scotland found in a grave from the 800s.
The project will investigate beacons or warning fires that were lit during attacks on the country in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. We will uncover the deeper social organisations at work when a society is facing recurrent threats and explore how war and fear-driven reactions affects and institutionalises societies.
The artistic research dance project All Tomorrows Parties by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien aims to investigate the impact that the HIV and Aids pandemic had on the Norwegian dance scene, the performing arts and cultural life in 1980s and 1990s.
Here you will find an overview of the staff in the faculty's theory section on jazz. Theodor Barsnes Obarheim is the head of the section.
The PhD programme in artistic research provides for the three research disciplines dance, music and documentary film.
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Employees and students at the Faculty of Performing Arts host up to 200 concerts and performances per year. Here is an overview over upcoming events.
Our bachelor in dance is a performing study focusing on contemporary dance. It is a three-year education that prepares you for a professional working life as a performing and co-creating dance artist or for further studies in dance.
Welcome to Café Ask and Embla, a delightful culinary destination at the Museum of Archaeology and the Iron Age Farm.
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Do you know any children or youths who'd like to learn jazz? This Jazz School is run by the jazz students from UiS Faculty of Performing Arts. Application deadline is October 22nd.
At the Museum of Archaeology, you meet the past in new and modern exhibitions. Here you get the story of all those who have lived and worked here before us, and experience how they have lived their lives and adapted to the changing climate and natural environment through the millennia.
The connection between traditional research and Artistic Research keeps growing stronger and internationally, Artistic Research is a field under great expansive development.
The Museum of Archaeology at UiS conducts research, administration and dissemination regarding human beings and their environments, mainly from prehistoric times and the Middle Ages. In addition to the dissemination work performed at the museum at Våland, the Museum of Archaeology is also responsible for disseminating information about the reconstructed Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug.
Here you will find an overview of our employees in the administration
Opening hours and prices at the Museum of Archaeology and the Iron Age Farm.
The theory department has employees from the Department of Classical Music and the Department of Jazz, Dance, PPU and Music Production.
Meet the staff of the Faculty of Performing Arts. Find bio, subject, and contact information of our management, teaching body, and counselors, divided into departments and sections.
The Faculty of Performing Arts' PPU education has a unique profiling of pedagogy in music, dance, drama and theater.
Music production and recording is organized under the Department of jazz, dance, PPU and music production at the Faculty of Performing Arts.
The Jazz Education in Stavanger is located on Bjergsted Campus in the heart of Bjergsted Culture Park.
Department of Jazz, Dance, PPU, and Music Production at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, is located in the heart of Bjergsted Cultural Park.
Visit the Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug and experience life in the Late Iron Age. Sit around the open fire and hear stories about everyday life 1500 years ago. As the only one of its kind in Norway, the Iron Age Farm has been rebuilt on the original remains and ruins of a farm that dates back to the Migration Period, approximately 350 – 550 AD.