Nordic Cool - a full month of Nordic cultural programming at the Kennedy Center. An overview of the Norwegian events: | |  | From February 19 to March 17, 2013, the Kennedy Center presents Nordic Cool 2013, a month-long international festival of theater, dance, music, visual arts, literature, design, cuisine, and film to highlight the diverse cultures of the Nordic countries.Read more >
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20566
Tlf: +1 800-444-1324
Buy tickets here | | |  | Learn about the Nobel Prize, its founder, the Laureates, and their endeavors.Read more > February 20- March 17 | | | | Invented in Sweden, plywood is one of the oldest mass-produced products in the world. This installation, created by famed Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, features large-scale plywood sculptures.Read more > February 20- March 17 | | |  | This multimedia two-act play that revolves around the intertwined fates of three characters--a conceptual artist grieving over her son's death, a boy-prostitute searching for the truth about his past, and a terminally ill businessman longing for love.Read more > February 20 and 21 at 07:30 PM | | |  | The three sisters perform a program of joik, a traditional form of song of the Sami people (the indigenous people of the northern Nordic region) and is one of the oldest forms of musical expression in existence. Part of Nordic Cool 2013.Read more > February 21 at 06:00 PM | | |  | One of Norway's most innovative and distinctive percussionists, Terje Isungset collects material from nature and creates new instruments. For Icemusic, he carves instruments out of pure ice, including from the 600-year-old Jostedal glacier.Read more > February 23 at 07:30 PM and 09:30 PM | | |  | Does the design of physical theater spaces and venues affect the experiential aspects of performing arts? Are there other, perhaps surprising, ways of relating architecture and theater? This panel discusses perspectives from both sides of the curtain.Read more > February 24 at 01:30 PM | | |  | Join us for an evening of cultural exploration based in our universal enjoyment of food that includes a buffet dinner specially prepared by Chef Simon Idsø at the home of His Excellency Wegger Chr. Strommen, the Ambassador of Norway.Read more > February 25 at 06:00 PM | | |  | Norway's National Theatre performs Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a powerful and emotionally potent portrayal of a woman's alienation from and suffocation by the bourgeois society of which she has become a part.Read more > February 26 and 27 at 07:30 PM | | | | his conversation will touch on issues such as trends and influences in contemporary Nordic performance; the relative importance of tradition and experimentation in the work; the age factor of audiences, and more.Read more > February 27 at 06:00 PM | | |  | Praised for his technical and emotional musicality, award-winning Norwegian violinist/fiddler and composer Gjermund Larsen performs with Andreas Utnem (organ & piano) and Sondre Meisfjord (double bass).Read more > February 28 at 07:30 PM and 09:30 PM | | |  | The highly respected Norwegian folk singer-songwriter was voted 2006 "Traditional Musician of the Year" in Norway.Read more > March 1 at 06:00 PM | | |  | In this interactive session, Norwegian solar physicist Pål Brekke utilizes photos and video footage from NASA satellites to discuss the visual phenomenon known as the Northern Lights.Read more > March 2 at 10:30 AM | | |  | Norwegian violinists Ragnhild & Eldbjørg Hemsing have been playing together since the ages of seven and five, when they first played for the Norwegian Royal Family at the National Theatre in Oslo.Read more > March 2 at 07:30 PM and 09:30 PM | | |  | Tord Gustavsen Ensemble, led by the pianist, has been a solid fixture on the Norwegian jazz scene for many years. The Guardian describes his sound as "meditative but subtly gospel-tinged."Read more > March 3 at 07:30 PM | | | | Is Nordic noir a voice of its own? This discussion features some of the region's foremost crime novelists offering their own takes on the success of the genre and its unique characteristics.Read more > March 3 at noon and 03:00 PM | | | | The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries that meets a "high literary and artistic standard." This panel features some recent winners discussing their works.Read more > March 3 at 06:30 PM | | | | Join us for a lively conversation with award-winning translators Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally, who have plenty of stories to tell about the joys and controversies they have encountered in nearly three decades of translating Scandinavian fiction.Read more > March 4 at 07:00 PM | | |  | The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance, Carte Blanche brings Sharon Eyal and Gai Bachar's Corps de Walk, a work about a static condition of unique moments and tiny, subtle changes in body posture.Read more > March 6 and 7 at 07:30 PM | | |  | As an investigation into a woman's death proceeds, details of an emotionally searing triangle involving two brothers and the woman begin to unfold, stretching across decades. An unsettling yet moving story of love, lust, jealousy, and fear.Read more > March 8 at 06:00 PM | | |  | In this frequently hilarious, engaging, and brutally honest portrait of a 35-year old man with a definite case of arrested development, Henryk has a new apartment, a challenging job, and a beautiful pregnant wife, which is where the trouble starts.Read more > March 9 at 01:00 PM | |
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