International Performing Arts Festival
12.09. – 27.09. 2025.
September 12 / 19:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance / Premiere
NOWHERE LIKE HERE
Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE)
Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery
Nowhere Like Here deals with our emotional responses to the connotation of “home” as a metaphor for identity and domestic bliss. A place of warmth, comfort and affection, but also conflicts and routines. The place where to welcome and where to close the door and be by ourselves. Where we feel safe and where dishes can pile up. The utopian emotional location we recollect with nostalgia.
September 13 / 17:00
Vrångsholmen
Performance - Lecture
Dance becomes her
Lilian Steiner (AU/SE)
The dancing body is not one that grows solo. It feeds off those around it, consciously and subconsciously, in a pinpoint moment in time and across expanded duration. Both through and without language, learnings accumulate within the body, within the spaces it occupies and in the archive of memory.
... and the dancing body is a tool acquired by Dance itself. Dance wears us, like a costume.
September 13 / 19:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance / Premiere
NOWHERE LIKE HERE
Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE)
Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery
Nowhere Like Here deals with our emotional responses to the connotation of “home” as a metaphor for identity and domestic bliss. A place of warmth, comfort and affection, but also conflicts and routines. The place where to welcome and where to close the door and be by ourselves. Where we feel safe and where dishes can pile up. The utopian emotional location we recollect with nostalgia.
September 14 / 16:00
Vrångsholmen
Performance
TROCA O PASSO
Ana Rita Teodoro & João dos Santos Martins (PT)
Walking is the present trace of a story that has already begun—the unfolding and fading of a form in progress. Is it possible to move forward while maintaining a connection with the black holes of history? "Troca o Passo" (an expression that both refers to an uncertain date in the past and to changing steps) is a duet created in dialogue with butoh.
September 14 / 18:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
GUERILLA
cULLBERG (SE) / Renan Martins (BR)
Cullberg works for the very first time with Brazilian choreographer and dancer Renan Martins. In this new immersive dance performance, he collaborates with Olof Dreijer, Swedish DJ, musician and founding member of the electronic pop group The Knife. It becomes a journey that challenges the conventional separation between dancers and the audience.
September 19 / 17:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
ALL THOSE THINGS LEFT BEHIND, FOR NOW
Matilda Bilberg (SE)
All Those Things Left Behind, For Now proposes a shift of attention, from a forward-oriented gaze to a backward-oriented embrace. Rooted in relationality, backspaces, and the fragility and resilience of our porous bodies, this dance performance engages with its paradox: a solo where multiple bodies occur in one.
September 19 / 19:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
52 Blue
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti (PT)
A dance solo by Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, based on the existence of a blue whale called 52Blue. This species, unique in the world, has an anomaly that is still unexplained by science; its sound frequency reaches 52 hertz. An ordinary whale has a frequency of 15 to 20 hertz. Because of this, 52 Blue cannot live with others of its species, as it would be unbearable. Based on this fact, Francisco creates a narrative full of ghosts, loneliness, pain, sadness, illusion, play, enchantment and imagination.
September 20 / 17:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
Suspiciously Groovy
NoXsense (SE)
What is a groove? Perhaps a shared pulse, a rebellion, or simply a fleeting moment of joy.
Suspiciously Groovy tries to answer this question by approaching groove not as a fixed concept, but as a question in motion. The performance challenges the body by experimenting with movements that are intentionally inorganic, awkward, and feel difficult to perform. From this sense of discomfort, something contagious begins to take shape. The dancers of NoXsense welcome you into a lively, playful choreography that invites you to feel the rhythm—and perhaps wiggle right out of your seat.
September 20 / 19:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
TAMBÉM SE MATAM CAVALOS (Horses are also killed)
um cavalo disse mamãe (PT)
In Brazil, for nine decades, there was a mental hospital, the Hospital Colónia de Barbacena, where marginalised people were locked up next to people diagnosed with mental health problems and all received the same brutal treatment instituted by a system that didn't want them. More than 60,000 people died in what has been called the Brazilian Holocaust.
Horses are killed when they are no longer useful to human beings, as if something or someone had to be useful. This piece is about a herd of horses running free in the open countryside, exhausted but happy; they don't know they're going to die in the war. This play is an exercise in freedom.
September 21 / 18:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Concert
Minga Festival encounters at HERE:2025
In collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan Bohuslän
In the winter of 2025, Gerlesborg School Bohuslän and the ambitious multicultural music festival Minga began a collaboration that resulted in a cracking concert evening with musicians from Iran, India and Senegal in the middle of the February darkness. Now Minga Festival and Gerlesborg School Bohuslän take the next step forward and bring this unique collaboration to Vitlycke - CPA, offering a mini Minga pop-up festival within the program of HERE:2025.
September 26 / 17:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Improvisation
IN THIS CLIMATE
Liz Kinoshita (CA/BE/SE)
Liz Kinoshita presents an improvised dance performance created specifically for Vrångsholmen – a rustic, repurposed building that now serves as a vibrant space for artistic exploration. Drawing on a range of improvisation techniques, she responds in real time to the architecture, atmosphere, and presence of the audience as the performance unfolds.
September 26 / 19:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
Simulacro
Margarida Montenÿ / Carminda Soares (PT)
“Simulacro” is an exercise in intimacy, repetition, and resistance.
Two bodies in continuous motion explore the limits of their proximity through the degenerative nature of gesture. A blurred space emerges between the real and the staged, between the public and the private, amplifying states of vulnerability, anticipation and tension.
September 27 / 16:00
Vrångsholmen
Improvisation
Dance Communication Lab
Improvisation/public sharing directed by Liz Kinoshita (CA/BE/SE) - Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery
On the final day of Dance Communication Lab (DCL) workshop, six participants from across Europe - representing Sweden, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania - come together to share the work they have developed with choreographer Liz Kinoshita (CA/BE). This improvised public showing takes place at Vrångsholmen, a historic building now transformed into a creative space. Join us to experience improvisation, movement and artistic ideas born from three days of collaboration and exploration.
September 27 / 18:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Performance
Dance
Gunilla Heilborn (SE)
Some people wish the Middle Ages would never end. In her latest production DANTE Gunilla Heilborn takes an unsuccessful trip to Florence as her starting point, where, on her quest to find Dante, she gets lost, not in a dark forest, but amid all the tourists – who, just like her, shuffle along the winding streets of Florence in pursuit of a bygone time. Heilborn takes on the tides of history where everything seeps through and might get lost. Which path should you take again, at that crossroads…
September 27 / 19:00
Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts
Concert
Aviva Endean & Henrik Olsson
Australian clarinetist and sound artist Aviva Endean and Swedish percussionist Henrik Olsson met for the first time at the Sounds of Sthlm 2023 Festival where both performed their solos. Inspired by each other's worlds of sound, a collaboration began and they have since performed a number of concerts as a duo and released their first album last year on the label FrimRec.
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