Rosendal Teater publications
- Re-imagining access within the performing arts. Rosendal Teater in collaboration with Balansekunst, 2026. A practical publication on access, inclusion and relaxed approaches across performing arts organisations, published in Norwegian and English and also made available in Braille.
- Creative Climate Justice in Norway. Rosendal Teater, September 2023. A guide for the Norwegian cultural field on climate justice, public imagination and system change, developed through Rosendal Teater’s climate-justice work and published under a Creative Commons licence.
- Hospitality, Music, and the Politics of Listening. Rosendal Teater, 2026. A conversation with Jacob Wren by Alexander Roberts on musical hospitality, participation, popular culture and the politics of listening.
- Access and Inclusion within the Performing Arts / From Access to Belonging - Inclusive Theatre Practice. European Theatre Convention, Det Norske Teatret, Oslo. June 2026. Workshop contribution on access, inclusion and belonging in theatre. European Theatre Convention.
- Re-imagining access within the performing arts. Rosendal Teater. 2026. Publication / working framework on access, inclusion and relaxed approaches within performing arts organisations.
- Kulturdirektoratets ansvar. Scenekunst.no, 9 February 2026. Co-authored public intervention by leaders of programming institutions on trust, governance and the administration of the Norwegian Cultural Fund.
- Imagination for Transformation. Rosendal Teater, 2025. Season text by Alexander Graham Roberts on art as a collective space for listening, imagination and transformation.
- Art Institutions under the Spell of Exhaustion: Reimagining Instituent Practices. With Marta Keil. Performance Research, Vol. 29, Issue 2: On Social Imaginaries, pp. 28-34. Published online 14 February 2025. An essay on open-source instituting, institutional exhaustion and the redistribution of agency, drawing on The Shake Down as a case study.
- Conference of Best Practices. Bergen Internasjonale Teater / PAHN, Bergen Kunsthall, 22 November 2025. Ten-minute contribution on curatorial practice alongside international artistic and curatorial leaders.
- Ligipääsetava teatri inspiratsiooniprogramm / Accessible Theatre Inspiration Programme. NAKS Festival, Tallinn, 23 October 2025. Seminar / workshop on accessible theatre, alongside Ellie Griffiths and Kelsie Acton.
- Theatre as the Third Place. Heddadagene / Kloden Teater, Oslo, 13 June 2025. Presentation on Rosendal Teater’s work to make the theatre and its art relevant and accessible across backgrounds, ages and functional variations.
- Funksjonsmangfold på musikk- og scenekunstinstitusjonene. Heddadagene / NTO, Det Norske Teatret, Oslo, 12 June 2025. Case presentation on institutional access and function-diversity alongside Kjersti Horn, Tomas Kold, Arnhild Staal Pettersen and Betty Nilsen.
- Inkluderende kunstfelt. Replikk, PAHN, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, 20 May 2025. Panel on access, artistic quality, representation and who gets opportunities within the performing arts.
- Creative Climate Justice in Norway. Rosendal Teater / Klimakultur, September 2023. Publication and public seminar asking how performing arts organisations can engage public imagination around climate justice and action.
- Into the City, Onto the Stage, Discursive Dinner #3. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður Gunnarsdóttir. Fest en Fest / Sadler’s Wells, London, 22 June 2023. Dinner conversation on the curatorial research developed through Reykjavík Dance Festival and its continuation in another Nordic city.
- Time for a Change. Rosendal Teater, 2022. Essay on the responsibility of theatres to contribute to a systemically fairer, more sustainable world together with their communities.
- Ingen tid til hvile: Om å fjerne barrierer. Scenekunst.no, 22 December 2022. Essay arguing for structural, field-wide reform on access and inclusion in Norwegian performing arts.
- Towards a Transformed Future. Alexander Roberts and Guro Hustad Stugu, Rosendal Teater, 2021. Public intervention on racism, criticism, decolonising institutional practice and the need for persistent self-critique within the performing arts.
- Curating with Unlikely Collaborators. Alexander Roberts and Marta Ákadóttir. Zodiak Centre for New Dance, Helsinki, Finland, 4 December 2019. Talk and workshop.
- A dialogue. Alexander Roberts and Satu Herrala. In Choreography: autonomies, edited by Marta Keil. English and Polish. October 2019.
- Curating with Teenagers in Reykjavík. Alexander Roberts, Marta Ákadóttir and Erla Sverrisdóttir. Tanzfabrik Berlin, Germany, 1 September 2019. Talk.
- Teenagers in Reykjavík go to Hangö. Viðsjá, National Radio of Iceland. Alexander Roberts, Marta Ákadóttir and Erla Sverrisdóttir. June 2019. Radio programme.
- Festivals as communities. Alexander Roberts. The Work Room, Glasgow, Scotland, 21 May 2019. Talk.
- Artist Talk. Alexander Roberts and Ásrún Magnúsdóttir. Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway, 22 February 2019. Talk.
- Learning with the City. Alexander Roberts. Norteas Seminar 2019, Malmö Theatre Academy, Malmö, Sweden, 8-9 February 2019. Talk.
- A dialogue. Alexander Roberts and Satu Herrala. Choreography Anthology. English and Norwegian. October 2018.
- What can we talk about? Book edited and contributed to by Alexander Roberts, outlining the conceptual and pedagogical territory of the Master’s in Performing Arts at Iceland University of the Arts. August 2018.
- Learning with the City. Chaos and Method Symposium, DAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 May 2018. Talk.
- Festival as communities. Return of the Fantastic Institution, BUDA Kortrijk, Belgium, 22-24 February 2018. Talk.
- Learning with the City. Tanzfabrik Berlin, Germany, 17 February 2018. Talk.
- Learning with the City. Danscentrum, Stockholm, Sweden, 14 February 2018. Talk.
- Curating in the Performing Arts: Towards Accidents, Microbes and Starlight. Ganznovi / New Dance Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-24 September 2017. Talk and workshop.
- The Thing, An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption: A Workshop for the Reflexively Impotent. Commissioned for The Thing workshop, 31 May 2017.
- Curating Second Hand Knowledge. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. Hugarflug, Iceland University of the Arts, 2 March 2017. Talk.
- Question-led artist-centred learning. Teaching to Transgress, DAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, 1 March 2017. Talk.
- Animals, cuteness and perpetual crisis. Animal Radio, Mengi, 11 January 2017. Talk.
- Turning, turning, and returning. Sarma: Laboratory for discursive practices and expanded publication. July 2015.
- Performing in the end times. Samtal, Iceland University of the Arts, January 2015. Public talk.
- Into the City. Onto the Stage. Performing the City. Festival TransAmériques, Montréal, Canada, May 2014. Talk.
- Escaping the ethical: towards a political aesthetics in community theatre. Samtal, Iceland University of the Arts, January 2014. Talk.
- On para-siting and collaboration, a live art research and development agency with no money. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. ANTI Festival, Finland, September 2013. Talk.
- Paper Spaces. Alexander Roberts. Swedish Dance History Journal. September 2013.
- Saving the Conference: With 32 people, 2 computers, 4 audio recorders, some photography cameras, and the hours of the day. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 12 June 2012.
- The Foreigner as a Practice of (Mis)Recognition. Alexander Roberts. Cultural Policy, a tool for diversity in the Nordic region? 2012.
- Theatre Responds to a Nation-state in Economic Recession: Theatre as a Potential Platform of Response to Iceland’s Economic Recession and Socio-political Consequences. MA thesis for MAIPR. 2011.
- A Report from the In-between. Community, Art, Power. Essays from the International Community Arts Festival. 2011.
- Total Theatre Magazine. Various articles and interviews written and edited by Alexander Roberts, 2009-2011.