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Copenhagen. She oversaw the creation of the
Documentation Centre for Nordic Group Theatre, which during the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, sought to obtain material from the political theatre movement such as interviews, photographs and performances recorded on cassette tapes for their archives. She asked her students to produce radio and television programmes for school pupils and to organise exhibitions, festivals, international guest performances and lectures to organisations. Kvam and a group of students met the recently released Nigeran playwright
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Karen Vedel and Stig Jarl noted her "teaching was largely tied to her research and she involved her students not only in working with source material, but also in collecting and generating data." Jarl observed that Kvam was "concerned with the relationship between the theoretical theater science and
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Institute as an associate professor, between 1967 and 1974. She established four Nordic group theatre festivals and seminars in close collaboration with students that ran from 1973 to 1977. In 1974, Kvam was appointed the first female professor of theatre studies at the University of
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On 16 April 1931, Kvam was born in
Copenhagen, Denmark, to the editor Mogens Nyholm and Karen Kirchhoff-Larsen. She graduated from Christianshavns Gymnasium in 1949 and thereafter enrolled at the
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From 1980 to 1984, she was a member of the
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as a subject consultant from 2000 to 2001. Kvam retired from the
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between 1985 and 1988. She served as a member of the
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the living theater and would have liked to see a greater collaboration between the theater science and the theater artistic educations."
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