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We are Sara Ribbenstedt from Sweden, Lena Bondeson from Denmark, and Anna Kuusamo from Finland, and together we form BRAVO TOGA - a pan-Nordic performing arts collective.

We create contemporary performances that moves freely between dance and theatre - and across Nordic borders.

As progressive practitioners in the Nordic independent scene, BRAVO TOGA is continuously exploring how to rethink and hybridize the theatre format, often with a dark sense of humor at its core. 
We’re a kind of “working hard not smart”- experts, practised in going from idea to production, and merge formats into the conceptually unknown. We enjoy finding the chaotic within the structured, the straight within the crooked, and the abstract within the political. 

Since 2016, we have produced, performed, and toured with performances at venues, institutions, and festivals in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland – and sometimes work in settings that don’t really lend themselves to definition.




We have collaborated with and performed at:

Konträr, Turteatern, Potato Potato, Inkonst, Institutet, and Teater Tribunalen in Sweden;
Sydhavn Teater, Åbne Scene, Warehouse9, and Dansekapellet in Denmark;
Viirus Teatteri and Teater Universum in Finland.
We have also participated in numerous artist residencies, including – in addition to those mentioned above
– Estrad Norr, HAUT, Bergmangårdarna, DOCH, and Ponderosa in Germany.


We have received support from:

Nordic Culture Contact,
Nordic Culture Fund,
Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet),
Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden),
Region Stockholm,
City of Stockholm,
City of Gothenburg,
Längmanska Cultural Foundation (Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden),
Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto),
The Cultural Foundation for Denmark and Finland,
and KONE foundation


We produce all our performances through our production cooperatives:

Interim Kultur - an artist-owned production company in Sweden
and with
KOMMA Performance Productions in Denmark




BRAVO TOGA was established during Lena and Sara’s BA in (Physical) Acting from Stockholm University of the Arts 2012-2015 where Anna did an exchange from the MA program in Acting from Tampere University (NÄTY) in Finland (2009-2014). Lena also did a MFA in Performing Arts (Directing) from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2019-2022) with an exchange to the Choreography & Performance program at Justus Liebig Universtität in Giessen, Germany (2022).
BRAVO TOGA is a nordic performing arts collective consisting of Anna Kuusamo from Finland, Lena Bondeson from Denmark and Sara Ribbenstedt from Sweden. The group has been active since 2016 and creates contemporary performances in the conceptual, experimental, practice-based and interdisciplinary field between dance and theater. BRAVO TOGA works collectively, in collaborations with other artists, in co-production with stages and as members of the performance productions cooperative Interim Kultur and KOMMA Performance Productions. BRAVO TOGA was established during Lena and Sara’s BA in (Physical) Acting from Stockholm University of the Arts 2012-2015 where Anna did an exchange from the MA program in Acting from Tampere University (NÄTY) in Finland (2009-2014). Lena also did a MFA in Performing Arts (Directing) from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2019-2022).