It was the movie Beat Street that got the dancer within Ola Beccau to wake up and already in elementary school, he taught his friends breakdance during music lessons. Now he teaches aspiring dance teacher in ballet, ballet Education and Anatomy at Luleå University of Technology in Piteå.
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To whom do superheroes turn to when they have wardrobe problems? LTU-alumni Fredrik Lindbom talks about his work with the new Hollywood blockbuster movie "Man of Steel" and his nightmares about the iconic red cape of Superman.
The teacher Carsten Ryytty is also the student Carsten Ryytty. After nearly 40 years in the profession his curiosity has not diminished and he believes that every day brings new knowledge. In addition to teaching in the Social Sciences at Hertsö school in Luleå Carsten also coordinates LTU's students during their internship.
For those who are tired of focusing on the problem in order to solve problems in school the course Appreciative approach: Education, Ethics and Health at Luleå University of Technology may be an alternative.
On May 6, students from Luleå University of Technology in Piteå give a Gender Concert in the Music Academy auditorium. A concert that breaks the tradition that reserves beautiful songs for one sex or the other. Audiences are treated to opera arias, duets and romances in a nice mix with a little humor too.
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International - Swedish National Association has since 1999 annually distributed an educational award to a woman who works in education - teaching and learning within or outside the compound. This years winner is Ulrika Bergmark, Lecturer in Education, Luleå University of Technology.
Students can take their iPad or mobile to help feel better in school. Researchers Catrine Kostenius and Krister Hertting, Luleå University of Technology, develops, new ways to improve schoolchildren's health where iPads, mobiles and computers has a central role.
Writing innovative attracts more and more students. In just a couple of years the number of students who applied for the course Creative writing increased from thirty to 500 applicants, making it one of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) most popular courses.
SMASK 2013 in Piteå opened with Rickard Ages Overture SMASKerad, followed by dance students who welcomed the 800-strong audience with a dance choreographed by students Ida Sandor and Marlene Garcia Toro.
A survey of teachers and students in Hong Kong, Australia and Sweden, suggesting that the perceive control is as a prominent aspect of teachers' work. This can be explained by the global standardization reforms that dominate school today.
This summer, six students from programs Experience Production and Media Design at LTU in Piteå are included in the project Experience Design Team 2013. Although summer is still a few months away, the project has already received many exciting challenges in the form of concept development from Kiruna in the north to Piteå in the south.
LTU Skellefteå are again the scene where the worlds leading computer game companies and VFX companies participate when students from Luleå University of Technology in Skellefteå show their student work. Welcome to GRAD SHOW 2013 where LTU students from computer graphics and computer game development presents their projects.
Musicians have high standards for motion control and to perform under pressure. Performance is comparable to an elite athlete and then there is also the artistic expression. The groups occupational health is neglected in research and health care. To illustrate the specific needs of musicians is Musicians' Health & Performance 1st Nordic Conference in 2013 arranged by the Department of Health Sciences at Luleå University of Technology
In the middle of april teacher student Camilla Bergström changes campus studies towards a months experience (internship) in Brighton, England.
Two years after graduating from teacher education at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) alumni Ylva Degerlund teaches at a secondary independent school in Luleå.
Kerstin Löf studies the fourth semester of Pre-school Teacher Education at Luleå University of Technology. When spring explodes and she returns to her second homeland, Italy, for a five week placement (internship).
There are nearly 150 students behind this years finals of the Swedish Music Graduates Song KonTest (SMASK) in Piteå. It is one of the largest entirely student-run project at Luleå University of Technology in Piteå and behind marketing is one freshman, Helena Ivarsson.
High school students from Strömbackaskolan in Piteå visited on Thursday Luleå University of Technology in Piteå as part of their Media theme week. At the department of media, audio technology, experience production and theater students were treated to a tour.
Ninnie Andersson, dance teacher and post graduate student at Luleå University of Technology, has in collaboration with mathematics teachers developed the concept of dancing mathmatics for high school.
For student Miku Godfrey the way to Luleå University of Technology and the education Film and Television Set Design / Prop at LTU Skellefteå been long, at least when it comes to actual distance.
Children of preschool age are full of curiosity, they are creative and interested in natural phenomena. In a course at Luleå University of Technology for prospective pre-school teachers, the students had the opportunity to stimulate children's curiosity through animated movies.
The thirteenth midwinterfestival, which was organized by the students at Luleå University of Technology, School of Music lit up the darkness in February.
After studying Media Design at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) the career for the alumni communications agency behind Geektown has been brilliant. This year the "Geeks" are among the nominees for the year's young entrepreneurs.
For students to perform and achieve learning goals, they must be complemented by social goals. For educational leaders, this means, among other things, that the statutory equality work priorities in a different way than before. It says researcher Greta Rova Lindberg studying the school as a social arena and in particular how the Swedish school manages conflicts and equality.
To further enhance cooperation between LTU and industry examiner Hans Gelter invited various businesses to, for the students, present ideas for their theses.
Time for Svedish Championship in Yukigassen, snowball war at Luleå University of Technology, is fast approaching, and eight teams have already signed up. The competition to be held March 2 initiated already four years ago by a student at Luleå University of Technology and subsequently the Japanese snowball war Yukigassen has become an established sport at the university.
For five weeks, students from Experience Production and Media Design at Luleå University of Technology worked to on behalf of Piteå Municipality, Norrbotten sports and Communications at Piteå municipality to create a concept around Norrbotten sports gala 2013.
For the two prospective preschool teachers Angélicka Söderberg and Christine André spring will mean an adventure out of the ordinary. After two years of distance learning, they cross the Atlantic for a five week work placement (internship) in Vancouver, Canada.
Theatre Academy of Luleå has reached all-time high of number of applicants for the actor training. This year, the program received 591 applications.
In mid-January, the two students Erik Nordberg and Alexandra Flinck from the program for Experience Production got the chance to participate in this years Turid projects in Meltosjärvi, Finland.
Luleå University of Technology, choir-professor Erik Westberg and university honorary doctor Benny Andersson are deaply involved when SVT2, on Saturday showed part of an acclaimed organ concert in October 2012. It's about Luleå University och Technology's Organ Acusticum and one of several concerts during an organ week last fall in connection with the inauguration of the 9000 squeaky organ.
Research Council's Board of Directors decided December 12, 2012 of a new committee for artistic research and artistic development (creative and performing arts) for 2013-2015. Newly elected are Åsa Unander-Scharin, choreographer, Ph.D and research associate in Music Performance at Luleå University of Technology.
To find business ideas at an early stage and to support the development of business ideas among students, researchers and staff at the University, each department since August 2012 have a separate commercialization ambassador. Lars Hallberg at the Department of Arts, Communication and Education (KKL)is passionate about developing ideas and making things happen.
English language as a subject at Luleå University of Technology gets top marks in a new Quality Review from Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV). The rating given by the Authority in a new round of scrutiny is "Very high quality" of education, which confirms that the quality of work done at the university produces results.
DANSAPPARATEN is a student-run club concept based on the electronic dance music that provides comprehensive experiences. Since the first event in Piteå, in March 2012, DANSAPPARATEN created six clubs both in collaboration with other organizations and themselves.
In a year, the project New forms of training - flexible teaching going on. The aim of the project was to develop flexible teaching methods. Reslutaten presented in an exhibition.
Robotic swan dancing to Tchaikovskij's Swan Lake, virtual voices, video animation and hybrid creatures. Åsa Unander-Scharin, senior lecturer at LUT, has had her dance film Artificial Body Voices broadcasted on SVT.
During the course, music and advertising production, television production students, are given the opportunity to present advertising ideas for two companies.
Human Health & Performance Lab was awarded 1.1 million from the Kempe Foundations last week. Now, also LTU
Eva Alerby has worked at the university since 1995 when she was accepted as a doctoral student in learning. Nowadays she works as a professor and Head of Department of Education at the KKL, and is currently working on her research on silence.
On the assumption that it is a democratic right to express yourself through music and what that demands of music education, professor Cecilia Ferm Thorgersen researches in the subject of music education.
Thanks to the Kempe Foundation, a Human Health and Performance lab is to be developed at Luleå University of Technology. The Laboratory creates opportunities for interdisciplinary research in art and technology.
By examining the kinds of texts young people read and combining this with research in the neurosciences, the newly installed professor of English and pedagogy, Lydia Kokkola, analyzes how young people read rather than what they read.
Follow student Elin Janum during her trainee position at the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi.
On Wednesday, November 14th at 15:30, the guitar builder Roger Strömberg will visit LTU, A118, to show his guitars and tells a little about guitar construction and materials Welcome!
You who have studied in secondary school in Luleå and pursuing higher education with the intention of becoming a teacher, you can apply for a scholarship from the Ulanderska Fund.
Dance Teacher Education at Luleå University of Technology in Piteå invests in international partnerships to provide the students with new influences.
Benny Andersson, musician, composer and former ABBA member is awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012, Philosophical Faculty. It is for his commitment to music and audio engineering at Luleå University of technology that he is appointed. With his musical works, he is of world class standard.
Margaret Kempe has been appointed Honorary doctor 2012, Philosophical Faculty. She is pursuing a magnificent achievement in the family Kempes name through her writing. She has made very valuable contributions to the development of art and science in the northern part of Sweden and LUT.
Peter Torbjörnsson was awarded today Eric Forsgren's documentary award for his lifes work in the documentary genre in which he, according to the explanatory memorandum, made life and death of the poor in Latin America understandable to the audience.
In november the Dance Teacher Education at Luleå University of Technology (LUT) and Institute of Dance in school invites to inspiring excellence days of international dance artists and lectures.
Teaterhögskolan year 3 presents the work of Tartuffe, a work of farce and comedy, with guest educator Frej Lindqvist
Lydia Kokkola's inaugural lecture explains the relationship between English as a skill and as a research subject by introducing her forthcoming research on adolescent reading.
Jan Berg, newly appointed assistant professor of audio engineering, was one of those who in the early nineties built the Audio engineer education at LUT in Piteå. An education which today ranks as one of the most famous in Sweden.
Per Zetterfalk have, at LTU in Piteå, found a platform to develop his own research projects. A project that he come november will present at both the International Conference Audio Visual and Media Education in the World and the prestigious 12th ELIA Biennial Conference in Vienna.
So came the time for Luleå University of technology's Honorary Doctor Benny Andersson to first performa his specially written work A scripture in the snow - a rhapsody for organ, piano, choir and flute.
Linnea Carell graduated from audio engineering program at the Academy of Music in Piteå 2006 Then she moved back to Karlskoga and now finds herself somewhere in Europe on tour with rock band Crucified Barbara.
The programs Set Design/Prop making for media production and Computer Graphics celebrated their 25th anniversary at Campus Skellefteå. The business started in 1987 and a total of 36 students are admitted each year to the two programs.
Around 500 people were present when the Organ Acusticum, at at Luleå University of Technology saw the future brightness. In to the last the german organ builder Gerald Wohel was doing adjustments for the premiere. Therefore it was natural that he was called on stage to unveil the organ.
Welcome to a Concert Orchestra. On 4 October 2012, at. 19:00 in the Aula. (LTU in Piteå) Free admission
For preschool teacher student Frida Carlsson campus will soon be extended considerably. She will make her internship (practical training placement) in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the longing for her departure is significant.
In the program for experience production they see great use in social media in education.
In the middle of summer, the new head of the department media, audio technology and experience production (MLU)started, but Monica Nordström Jacobsson is by no means new at Luleå University of Technology.
For the newly arrived students the morning became a practical exercise in leadership. Professor Gunnar Jonsson held the exercise, and with him, he had five sheep and four dogs Akka Dimma, Kråka and Ester.
Benny Andersson, internationally known musician and composer, Eva Karlsson successful business manager and a "ruterdam", Tore Lundmark recognized builder of bridges and Margareta Kempe, author and member of the Kempe Foundation. That is the names of the new honorary doctors at the Luleå University of Technology. GRADUATION takes place in the fall at the academic ceremony
On June 15th the annual Festival of Piteå gets started. During the 30-year anniversary, visitors will get to enjoy everything from world celebrity Peter Mattei to vocalist Sofia Karlsson and Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra.
The goal was to improve the meal experience for students and teachers at Klubbgärdsskolan in Piteå
Esoteric dance and musical performance in improvisation characters.
The students from Luleå University of Technology, School of Music, took both first and second place when SMASK-finals were held in Örebro.
Per Högström, teacher and researchers at Luleå University of Technology - in the magazine Origo, he talks about the need to allow students to experiment
Sweden's northernmost and newest Confucius Institute was inaugurated this week at Luleå University of Technology. It will convey knowledge of Chinese language and culture and in close cooperation with Luleå municipality schools and LTU conduct training. The Institute will, among other things convey academic contacts
Johannes Liedbergius who has studied orchestral conducting with LTU professor Petter Sundkvist at the LTU School of Music in Piteå this week received Swedish conductor price. It is given by one of the world's most famoust chamber orchestras, Stockholm Sinfonietta, in cooperation with the audit and business advisory firm PwC and involves a grant of SEK 150 000 and the ability to conduct the sinfonietta.
Newly-formed electronic music collective will perform this weekend at the festival Nydanat. They include Vanessa Martinez, who just completed her training and Karin Lindgren who is currently studying at Luleå University of technology.
This weekend the festival Nydanat - the content of a three-year collaborative project in which Luleå University of technology, Piteå campus and Studio Acusticum are concluded.
During career day Kristian Luuk inspired students
Luleå University of Technology has more first-choice applicants this year, an increase of 17% on average
Anders Hallerhed from Göteborgsposten Bild held a lecture on photo-reportage
The song by Johanna Lindgren is about taking advantage of life, which is like an open sea. Johanna has studied at Framnäs and the Academy of Music in Piteå.
Singer Karen Clift and pianist Stephanie Wendt are right now on tour in Sweden and in addition to concerts, the duo also gives master classes at LTU
Now it is time for the 3rd concert of the series of the Month classic. It has been two really nice lunchtime concerts with various programs so far. Welcome to lunch concert on April 24.
It is now ten years ago Luleå University began educating experience producers who can work as a producer or project manager in the cultural and creative industries.
Now a new training session for the course "Short route" that will help educated immigrants into working life in Sweden.
Fourteen years has past since lecturer David Myhr released an albym, then together with the band The Merrymakers. But now he releases his solo album Soundshine
Ninnie Andersson is a graduate student who, has found the technique she uses in teaching the danceteacherstudents.
Lindie Bostrom was the big winner when the music competition SMASK were held in Piteå last weekend. She is the creator of both of those songs that qualified for the national final in Örebro May 19
Luleå technical university now has another awardwinning member of their staff. Tommy Lakso, lecturer in guitar, has been awarded This year jazz educator of Swedish Jazz
Proud students from the Media Design program, year 2, invites you to open exhibition in the foyer at Luleå University, Piteå. The exhibition is the final work on the course Magazine Production and it is self-produced magazines on display.
The first American film based upon author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has just had its Swedish premiere. To the famous director David Finchers first film in the trilogy,"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", has students from Luleå University of Technology's television training in Piteå been supplying materials.
