CV:
Toby Kassell (UK/SE) 

Artistic Co-Director of No Deadline

(b.1975 in London, United Kingdom)
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden

Curatorial work

2025
Rabbit/Duck, Interdisciplinary Art Festival, Scen 46, Gothenburg
Creative Currents, Scen 46, Gothenburg

2024
Rabbit/Duck, Interdisciplinary Art Festival, Scen 46, Gothenburg

2023
Rabbit/Duck, Interdisciplinary Art Festival, Scen 46, Gothenburg

Choreography

2025
Crunch Crisis, ON art and sound in an empty OFFice, Levande Musik, curator: Arvid Kraft

2024
Improvisation, No Deadline duo, Levande Musik, Upperud
Crunch Crisis, Rabbit/Duck Festival, Galleri 54 anniversary, Scen 46, Gothenburg
Silence and Stillness, No Deadline and Kepler Trio and Linda Oláh, Atalante, Gothenburg 

2023
Silence and Stillness, collaboration between No Deadline and Kepler Trio feat. Linda Oláh, Atalante, Gothenburg 
Faraway Nearby, collaboration with Louisa Palmi, 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg
Duet w/ Louisa Palmi Danielsson, Bubblan, GIBCA Extended, Scen 46, Gothenburg

2022
The Sad and Spiritual Journey of a Piano w/ Inga Kuznekova, site specific, Götaplatsen, Gothenburg, Sweden and Art Printing House, Vilnius, Lithuania, international exchange programme Dance + 

2019
Transition, a No Deadline production, Stora Teatern, Gothenburg

I/You/We/The Future, No Deadline, Royal Swedish Ballet School,  Gothenburg Opera

2017
Transition, a No Deadline production, Atalante, GIBCA Extended: GöteborgsOperan, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, 3:e Våningen, Konstkollektivet i Mölndal.
What happens in the basement where they keep the lights, Gothenburg Opera
What is it? (Owl and Bear), Framtidsveckan, Gothenburg Opera

2016
Sketches, 3:e Våningen

2015
The Two-Headed Man, 37’* Suburbia, site specific, Gothenburg Opera
Barren, collab. with Johan Jutterström at 3:e Våningen
Transit – a swarm in 5 acts, AHA-Festival, Chalmers University

2014
(a) Space Revisited, one week site specific durational work, collab. with Johan Jutterström, Linda Oláh, Andreas Hiroui Larsson, Ingeborg Zackariassen, Joe Giddings, Shaun Ryder, Gurkparken, Söderhamn
Solo for Multiple Self, text and chor. Toby Kassell, 3:e Våningen

2013
Silent Duet w/ Ingeborg Zackariassen, Göteborgs Konsthall
Improvisation, 37* Suburbia, site specific, Gothenburg Opera
Duo, Real Stars, Bio Roy, Gothenburg

2011
Washed Up, site specific, GIBCA Extended, Älvsnabben

2009
Outside, NuDans, Gothenburg Opera

2008
I’ve been meaning to tell you something, 24 Kvadrat, Gothenburg

2007
Object of… Gothenburg Opera
Hangups, Gothenburg Opera

Performing/Acting

2024/2025
Crunch Crisis, Rabbit/Duck festival, No Deadline, Scen 46

2024
Making Traces, Ingeborg Zackariassen, 3:e Våningen

2023
Duet w/ Louisa Palmi Danielsson at 3:e Våningen

2022
Klubben, Felix Skalberg at 3:e Våningen

2018 
Stoic, Sidi Larbi Cherkaui,  Gothenburg Opera

2016 
Mongrel, Marina Mascarell,  Gothenburg Opera

2015
r, Johan Jutterström, Röda Sten Konsthall

2014
Noetic, Sidi Larbi Cherkaui, Gothenburg Opera
Solo for Multiple Self, 3:e Våningen
Wasteland, Ina Christel Johannessen, Gothenburg Opera

2005
Act without words, Words and Music by Samuel Beckett, Beckett Festival Luxembourg

Dancing

2006-2020
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, performing pieces by- and most often creating in close collaboration with – choreographers such as Örjan Andersson, Roy Assaf, Sidi Larbi Cherkaui, Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman, Guy&Roni, Franck Chartier/Peeping Tom, Rui Horta, Johan Inger, Ina Christel Johannessen, Daniela Kurtz, Marina Mascarell, Teero Saarinen, Jo Strømgren, Peter Svenzon, Didy Veldmann, Medhi Walerski, Roberto Zappala, Alan Lucien Øyen and more.  

2001-2006
Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Germany

1999-2001
Komische Oper Berlin, Germany

1997-1999
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany

1996-1997
Aalto Theater Essen, Germany

1995-1996
Ballet de Santiago de Chile

1994-1995
Zürich Ballet, Switzerland

Education

1987-1994
Royal Ballet School, London, England

Artistic Research collaborations

2025
Anne Pajunen

2024
Anna Lindal. Andreas Hiroui Larsson, Johan Jutterström Lethe, symposium, Stockholm 

2019
Artistic Researcher Magda Mayas’ PhD thesis Accretion, Orchestrating Timbre

2018
Artistic Researcher Johan Jutterström’s PhD thesis Ng Revisited 

Films

2021
The Fall dir. by Donovan von Martens, with Paperwing feat. Loney Dear
Gangdance dir. by Monica Mazzitelli

2019
Anima dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson, with Thom Yorke

2005
Taboo or not dir. by Marcus Behrends, with Marguerite Donlon

Teaching and Mentoring

2024: Mentor/coach, Dansakademin LABB 2024, Regionteater Väst in Borås, Sweden. 

2022- ongoing:
Teacher of improvisation and mentor at Balettakademien, Gothenburg
Guest teaching: Staatstheater Saarbrücken, The International Ballet School, Stockholm, Royal Swedish Ballet School, Zagreb Dance Center.

Playwriting

2025
Crunch Crisis
2018
Sketches
2015
The Two-Headed Man
2014
Multiple Self

Published texts

Two articles published by Ballet/Tanz Magazine, 2005 and 2007

Board assignments

2023- current
Management group, Balettakademien

2023-current
Founding member, No Deadline

2023-current
Board member, Scen 46

Awards and Grants

2025
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Travel Grant, Berlin

2024
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Travel Grant, Amsterdam

2022
Kulturförvaltningen, International Exchange Programme, Lithuania

2013
Mary von Sydow foundation

2005
Award: Most Outstanding male dancer in Dance Europe magazine
Villeroy & Boch, Saarbrücken, Germany for outstanding contribution to dance performance

Funding

2025
City of Gothenburg, Development Support (No Deadline, international artists to Sweden)

2024
City of Gothenburg, Project Grant (No Deadline, Rabbit/Duck Interdisciplinary Art Festival)
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (No Deadline, Silence and Stillness filming)

2023
City of Gothenburg, Project Grant (No Deadline, Rabbit/Duck Interdisciplinary Art Festival, GIBCA Extended)

2022
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (No Deadline, Silence and Stillness at Atalante)

2019
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (No Deadline, Transition, Stora Teatern)
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, International exchange 

2018
City of Gothenburg, (No Deadline, support for organising)
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, International exchange 

2017
City of Gothenburg, Pronto (Kassell/Zackariassen – later No Deadline – Transition, GIBCA Extended) 
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, International exchange 
Kultur i Väst, production scholar