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ACROSS
Equipment delivery to Justerö & Ingmarsö, December 2025
A delivery trip to the Stockholm archipelago brought Remote Stations to new venues on Ingmarsö and Justerö, expanding the regional infrastructure for future low‑latency cultural and educational activities. The work focused on transporting and installing the equipment on site, ensuring that each venue is now prepared for upcoming technical testing and configuration. Local teams were introduced to the purpose and potential of the Remote Stations, laying the groundwork for later training and hands‑on evaluation. This step marks an important expansion of the Nordic network, enabling island communities to participate in remote performances, workshops and collaborative projects once testing is completed.
ANSEL
Circus residency exploring new ways of working enabled by low-latency technologies.
A circus residency brought together Erik Rosales (AI artist), Charlie Caper (illusionist) and Regina Baumann (acrobat), who collaborated between 6–10 October to explore new artistic possibilities at the intersection of low latency technology, magic and physical performance. The residency focused on developing ideas that combine AI‑driven creativity, illusion techniques and contemporary circus expression. Andreas Brännlund, Ann‑Cathrine Fröjdö‑Brandt and Johan Moberg participated in the sessions, contributing perspectives from performing arts development and digital innovation. The residency offered a unique environment for experimentation and laid the groundwork for future cross‑disciplinary collaborations within the Nordic region.
ANSEL/ACROSS
Tech-test week, November 2025
A dedicated tech‑test week brought together Andreas Brännlund and Johan Moberg to evaluate a wide range of equipment essential for high‑quality remote and hybrid performing arts production. Throughout the week, they tested projectors, cameras, microphones, projection screens, lenses and lighting setups, comparing performance, reliability and suitability for low‑latency environments. The sessions focused on identifying optimal combinations of hardware for distributed rehearsals, live events and educational use, with particular attention to image clarity, audio precision and overall system stability. The test week provided valuable insights that will guide future installations, technical planning and cross‑Nordic collaboration within digital performing arts and remote production workflows.
ANSEL
Sneak peek and talks with students in Sundsvall. Riksteatern Children & Youth Department.
A sneak peek and conversation with 8th‑grade students in Sundsvall, connected to Riksteatern Children & Youth Department and the upcoming production Ja må han leva in September 2025.
Riksteatern Children & Youth Department is developing its audience engagement by starting from the perspectives of children and young people, with the aim of strengthening artistic quality and participation in the performing arts experience. This approach aligns with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as Riksteatern’s own statutes and equality strategies.
Since today’s reference audiences during rehearsal periods are mostly drawn from the Stockholm area due to limited resources, Riksteatern is testing digital reference group meetings and classroom visits to reach the actual target audience outside major cities. Low‑latency technology enables interactive, high‑quality encounters with artists, deepening the students’ experience, raising the artistic quality of the productions, and supporting the dialogue that both Riksteatern and schools need.
ANSEL/ACROSS
The Performing Arts Biennial (Scenkonstbiennalen), June 2025.
A seminar explored how low‑latency technology can create stage presence and real‑time interaction across long distances without delay. The discussion focused on how these tools can support creative development and make performing arts and culture accessible regardless of whether participants are based in cities, rural areas, or the archipelago. The technology enables new forms of collaboration between artists, musicians, dancers, technicians, producers, organisers and community groups, supported by partners such as Beyondaters Internetpartners. The event was part of the EU‑funded Nordic projects ANSEL and ACROSS, which aim to increase accessibility, develop new performance formats and strengthen participation and democratic engagement.
Participants included Andreas Brännlund, Veronica Litström, Mårten Fröjdö and Ann‑Cathrine Fröjdö‑Brandt & Johan Moberg.
ANSEL
Workshop in Helsinki, May 2025.
A technical workshop at Mediatrade in Helsinki introduced participants to the latest developments in low‑latency infrastructure and how these solutions can support cultural, educational, and cross‑regional collaboration. The program included practical demonstrations of updated Remote Station configurations, highlighting improvements in stability, audio‑visual quality, and long‑distance connectivity. Attendees were also given an overview of the enhanced booking and management platform, designed to simplify coordination, resource allocation, and real‑time monitoring across multiple sites. The workshop provided a clear understanding of how these tools can strengthen Nordic cooperation in distributed performance, remote teaching, and digital production workflows.
ANSEL/ACROSS
Seminar at Riksteaterdagarna in Hallunda, April 2025.
The session introduced two innovative projects that push the boundaries of performing arts by exploring how technology enables stage presence and real‑time interaction across long distances without delay. Participants were invited to discuss how digital tools can support creative development, expand access to culture in archipelago and rural regions, and bring together artists, audiences, and communities. The work is part of Riksteatern’s involvement in the EU‑funded Nordic projects ANSEL and ACROSS, both aimed at increasing accessibility, developing new performance formats, and strengthening participation and democratic engagement. These initiatives build on Riksteatern’s long‑standing collaborations and the extensive knowledge gained through years of development projects in the performing arts sector.
Participants:
Mindy Drapsa – Artistic Director, Crea, Riksteatern
Jamila Ouahid – Actor, Interactive Ghost (The Canterville Ghost)
Mårten Fröjdö – Remote North
Bosse Wikerstål – Net Insight
Ian Plaude – Principal, Stockholm University College of Music Education (SMI)
Ann‑Cathrine Fröjdö – Project Manager, Riksteatern
Johan Moberg – Technical Project Manager, Riksteatern
Joacim Gustafson – Head of Communication, Riksteatern
Kiana Moberg – Marketing Manger, Riksteatern
ANSEL
Workshop in Helsinki, March 2025.
A technical workshop with producers, technicians and stakeholders took place at Mediatrade in Helsinki introducing them to the latest developments in low‑latency infrastructure and how these solutions can support cultural, educational, and cross‑regional collaboration in Stockholm and Åhland’s archipelago. The program included practical demonstrations of updated Remote Station configurations, highlighting improvements in stability, audio‑visual quality, and long‑distance connectivity. Attendees were also given an overview of the enhanced booking and management platform, designed to simplify coordination, resource allocation, and real‑time monitoring across multiple sites.
The workshop provided valuable insight into how these tools can support and strengthen Nordic cooperation in distributed performance, remote teaching, and digital production workflows.
ACROSS
Workshop in Helsinki, March 2025.
A workshop at Mediatrade in Helsinki provided an introduction to Nimbra systems and their role in enabling reliable low‑latency connections for cultural and educational use. The session included a hands‑on walkthrough of the latest Remote Station setups, demonstrating how the hardware is designed for stable, high‑quality audio‑visual transmission across long distances. Participants were also shown the new booking application, which streamlines scheduling, monitoring, and coordination of Remote Station usage across multiple locations. The workshop offered valuable insight into how these tools can support scalable Nordic collaboration in music education, performing arts, and distributed production environments.
ACROSS
Workshop at Aalto University, Helsinki, March 2025.
The visit to Aalto University in Helsinki provided an overview of the university’s advanced facilities and its interdisciplinary approach to combining technology, creativity, and research. The team at Aalto presented the MAGICS program, a national infrastructure supporting high‑end media production, virtual environments, motion capture, and real‑time technologies for artistic and scientific applications. Several labs and studios were showcased, demonstrating how Aalto enables collaboration between engineers, designers, artists, and researchers. The visit offered valuable insight into how similar technologies and workflows can strengthen Nordic cooperation in performing arts, education, and telepresence‑based cultural production.
ANSEL
The Canterville Ghost, February 2025
A remote production of The Canterville Ghost demonstrated how Riksteatern and Net Insight are expanding the possibilities of live performance through ultra‑low latency technology. The ghost character appeared as a real‑time 3D‑animated avatar performed from Botkyrka, interacting seamlessly with actors and audiences in Sundsvall. Powered by the Nimbra platform, the production combined spoken and sign language to create an accessible and innovative stage experience. The project, produced by Riksteatern Crea with Sundsvall Municipality and the ANSEL network, highlights how remote performance can open new artistic formats across the Nordic region.
ANSEL/ACROSS
Workshop at Riksteatern, Hallunda, January 2025
The Low Latency Workshop 1 brought together ANSEL partners at Riksteatern to share previous experiences with low‑latency technology and coordinate upcoming work across the project. Over two days, each partner presented their work packages, explored earlier low‑latency projects, and received an inside look at how the technology is used in productions such as The Canterville Ghost. Participants collaborated on preliminary timelines, identified cross‑border partnerships, and prepared for future workshops and demos in music education, performing arts, and telepresence. The workshop laid the foundation for a unified Nordic approach to developing innovative cultural productions where education, technology, and the performing arts intersect.
Participating representatives from:
NORWAY
— UIT – The Arctic University of Norway / Music Conservatory
— Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter
— Tvibit in Tromsø
— Sami Upper Secondary and Reindeer Herding School (Kautokeino)
SWEDEN
— Riksteatern – The Swedish National Touring Theatre
— Sundsvall Municipality / Region Västernorrland
— SMI – University College of Music Education in Stockholm
— TRE RUM (Three Rooms performance)
— Opera Extravaganza / Sharegarden
FINLAND
— Kaustinen sub-region
— Kaustinen Music High School
— Kaustinen Folk Music Institute
— Centria University of Applied Sciences
ANSEL/ACROSS
Global Sounds Seminar October 2024
The event Music with the Speed of Light, part of the world music festival Global Sounds produced by United Voice and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, explored how advanced real‑time technology can transform music and performing arts through ultra‑fast connections and new creative possibilities. Participants were shown examples of virtual collaborations and innovative stage expressions without delay. The program also demonstrated how audiences can be engaged through interactive elements, digital effects, and new forms of participation. The technology further opens significant opportunities for music education and collaboration between schools, artists, and creators regardless of geographical distance.
Participants: Mårten Fröjdö, Filip Alexandersson, Bo Wikerstål, Ann‑Cathrine Fröjdö, Ian Plaude & Johan Moberg.
Moderator: Andreas Brännlund
Three Rooms (Tre Rum)
Technology takes performing arts to new heights
Three Rooms is a groundbreaking theater production performed simultaneously in three countries—Norway, Sweden, and Finland. During one week in September 2023, three actors met live on stage in Trondheim, Sundsvall, and Jakobstad, creating a shared performance across borders.
The project explores new digital formats and artistic possibilities enabled by low-latency technology, creating real-time interactivity and presence at a distance. For the first time, actors performed together across time zones, with one actor physically on each stage while the other two appeared through transparent veils using near-zero delay audio and video.
https://www.riksteatern.se/teater/technology-takes-performing-arts-to-new-heights/
ANSEL
Interreg Aurora, 10 Oct 2023 – 9 Oct 2026
The Interreg Aurora funded project ANSEL aims to enhance accessibility to cultural expression and education in the sparsely populated regions of Finland, Sweden, and Norway. By tackling obstacles like long distances and a scarcity of skilled personnel, the project fosters innovative collaborations among organizations and professionals in the field of culture, the arts, creative industries, and network providers looking for new possibilities for the digitalization of culture. The project seeks to enhance cross-border collaboration in the circum-polar region and tests new solutions to leverage digitalization in the cultural sector, with the goal of producing fresh and captivating results.
Riksteatern: https://www.riksteatern.se/teater/ansel/
Three Rooms (Tre Rum)
World premiere 12 September, 2023
The production did something that had never been done before on a theater stage – it was performed in three countries simultaneously. With one physical actor on each stage, the three women met in a virtual world in front of three different audiences. All of this was made possible by communication technology with negligible audio and video delay, in real time. The result was an out-of-body experience; a new form of performing arts where the performance became unique depending on which of the three rooms you were in.
https://www.riksteatern.se/trerum
Net Insight at IBC 2023 (Amsterdam)
Kulturnyheterna
https://www.svt.se/kultur/recension-tre-rum-av-riksteatern–qicdud
Scenekunst.no
https://scenekunst.no/artikler/overskrider-tid-og-rom
Östersbottens Tidning (Swedish)
Radio Vaasa
Tinfo
Kolmella näyttämöllä, kolmessa maassa – samanaikaisesti (tinfo.fi)
Ny teknik ger scenkonstupplevelse på tre scener, i tre länder – samtidigt! (tinfo.fi)
Innovative Rooms
Artistic Creation and Music Teaching at the Speed of Light, 22 May, 2023
Welcome to Innovative Rooms demo day about remote creative collaboration! During the day, the work with low latency performing arts will be presented at Riksteatern. We also pay a visit to Net Insight, which manufactures the Nimbra technology used in remote collaboration. The day ends at the Stockholm University College of Music Education, where we get to follow a music lesson where the teacher is in Stockholm and the student is in Mariehamn in the Åland Islands. The aim of the day is to demonstrate the format and inspire new collaborations. A network connection with low latency makes it possible to develop the digital format of the performing arts, distance pedagogy, promote cultural equality for minorities and strengthen democratic processes, contribute to less travel and thus to a reduced footprint on the environment.
Innovative Rooms
“With the Speed of Light” workshop, December 2022
A consortium of Centria (polytech) Karleby Finland, Tvibit Tromsö Norway and Riksteatern Sweden was granted EU funding from Interreg Aurora for a feasibility study. The project Innovative Rooms started with a technical workshop 5–6 Dec 2022 at Riksteatern, Sweden.
September 2022
NPAPWS (https://npapws.org/) arrangeras på Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre i Tallin, 12–14 September, 2022.
Maj 2022
Teaching music with digital presence (https://www.worldacademicforum.se) will be arranged at the University College of Music Education in Stockholm on 18 May at 13.00-15.00. A trailer of the concept https://drive.google.com/file/d/1niVA2c7rM-Qf6OBcM3YwPw7cLj6U-0PK/view
February 2022
Kulturnett 3.0 implementation project in Trøndelag,Norway
October 2021
Dalarna has received funding from the region and the Swedish Arts council for a decision basis for Remote North culture network in Dalarna.
June 17th 2021
Läs slutrapporten om förstudien för Nordic Community for Distributed Presence här.
20th May 2021
Läs artikeln ”How NRENs are keeping musicians and artists connected” där Nordic Community for Distributed Presence är med here
19th April 2021
Nordic Community for Distributed Presence och UKM, Kulturskolerådet Norge och Kulturtanken anordnar ett webinarium om kulturnät Norden den 20 april kl 12.30-14.00
The webinar is recorded and posted here a few days after the event.
Link to the recording: https://vimeo.com/539178128
Nordic Community for Distributed Presence/NCDP deltar I den internationella remote workshopen NPAPWS21 den 27-28 april 2021.
The workshop is organized by the European research network Geant and Internet2.
Link to all presentations: https://npapws.org/virtual-npapw21/
22th Mars 2021
Inspirations webinarium Västernorrland.
Watch the entire seminary HERE
20 December 2020
The cross-sectoral seminar " The Nordic Culture Network and a new digital format for artistic design and music teaching at a distance " was canceled due to Covid.
Parts of demonstrations and talks were documented on November 27 in Hallunda as a basis for further talks with the participants - researchers, creators and decision-makers.
About the ongoing work with The Nordic Culture Network, about artistic development, research initiation and knowledge based on low latency and performing arts and music teaching at distance.
Arrangör: Riksteatern, Nordic Community for Distributed Presence/NCDP, SMI (Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut), i samarbete med Stockholms Improvisationsteater.
1 video, 6:44 min:
Summary Performing arts and music teaching at a distance, research initiation
Playlist, 10 videos:
16 December 2020
Our partners in Tampere University have received fundig for two projects that include remote technology, MAGICS: National Infrastructure for human virtualization and remote presence (in collaboration with Helsinki University of Arts) and Live + Digital Audiences: The future of culture’s powerhouses (LiDiA).
MAGICS:
Helsinki University of arts focuses on measuring and digitizing human activity; TAU for multimodal bodily interaction, game cultures, visual information presentation, and visual building digital worlds; Uniarts illuminates this whole from an artistic perspective. In collaboration with their industry partners, they research and develop shared digital spaces and remote presence.
LiDiA:
LiDiA rebuilds the preconditions and possibilities of the performing arts: Its artistic work and research boldly follow the view that the sustainable and secure future of large audiences arises only from the hybrid operation of cultural powerhouses, small and medium-sized event houses and producers. Hybrid art simultaneously reaches an immediate, physical experience with international, virtual audiences.
2 December 2020
Last week, The National Theatre of Sweden
in collaboration with Stockholm's Music Pedagogical
Insitute, Nordic Center for Digital Presence, Net Insight and Stockholms
Improvisation theater would have organized a cross sectoral seminar on a new digital format for artistic design and music teaching with remote technology.
Due to the current situation with Covid-19, it was not possible to
implement but instead a demo was filmed which will be posted shortly
in this page.
30 September 2020
Riksteatern has received funding from the Regional Council of Västernorrland for a
förstudie Nordic Community for Distributed Presence / NCDP. Region Västernorrland skriver i sin motivation:
“The pre-study is expected to strengthen the development opportunities of cultural and
creative industries through remote technology.
The project is a collaboration with Folkuniversitetet, Norrsken AB, Riksteatern
Västernorrland, Scen Sundsvall, Stockholms Music Pedagogical Institute and
ulture schools in Härnösand, Kramfors kommun , Sundsvall, Timrå kommun and Örnsköldsvik.
Work
starts October 1.
13 August 2020
Läs mer om hur Riksteatern och Nordic Community for Distributed Presence
samarbetar för att göra ett nordiskt kulturnät möjligt here (link opens in a new window).
You can also watch a presentation about their
och Nordic Community for Distributed Presences arbete på det digitala informationsmötet ”Arena” here (link opens in a new window).
14 May 2020
A project group consisting of Riksteatern SWE, SMI SWE, Norrsken SWE, Wasa Teater FIN, Teater Västernorrland SWE and Rosendals teater NOR has been set up as well as a Advisory board of Norsk kulturskoleråd NOR, CSC/FUNET FIN, North Cultitude Intl, Örnsköldsvik kulturskola SWE, NTNU NOR, Oslo Uni NOR.
Application to Creative Europe submitted, 350 000€
13 May 2020
The Riksteatern production "3 Rum” is planned for late 2021 or spring 2022. It will be played on three stages simultaneously in Trondheim, Norway, Härnösand/Sundsval, Sweden and Vasa Finland.
Nordic Culture Point funding has been granted 50 000€.
1 May 2020
NCDP-nätverket har bildat en arbetsgrupp som heter Norröver för att inleda genomförbarhetsstudier i Västerbotten, Västernorrland och Jämtland-Härjedalen. Ca 15 organisationer ingår i arbetsgruppen som leds av Mårten Fröjdö från Nordic Community for Distributed Presence/NCDP och Christer Uhre från Riksteatern.
Applications for funding has been submitted to regional councils (RVN, RVB) and Leader (RVB).
1 April 2020
Produktionen ”Man får väl ställa upp” skulle skickas från Svenska Teatern Helsingfors till Bio Savoy Mariehamn med Nordic Community for Distributed Presence/NCDP-format C.
Due the pandemic the Finnish tour was cancelled. A new production is planned for autumn 2020.
