International Performing Arts Festival
02.09 – 23.09
Vitlycke – CPA
Vitlycke Museum
Vrångsholmen
02 SEP / Saturday
Kedja + HERE:2023 present
A Dance Encounter
Vitlycke-CPA will guest Keðja intensive LAB from the 28-31 of August 2023. Keðja’s closing day will overlap with HERE:2023 kick-off!
A day of seminars, talks,
performances, food and party!
Keðja Stretch Vitlycke, Sweden 2023 is a creative lab inviting dance artists from Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Scotland and Sweden to explore dance and heritage.
+ Bus transport provided from Gothenburg
Photo: Christian Valenzuela Barrondo
02 SEP / 14.00
Vitlycke Museum
Performance
GARDEN OF GROWTH
Tevin Redvall (SE)
A captivating dance performance that takes you on a journey where movement becomes a language of self-discovery. Tevin’s personal transformative experiences, and introspection, led him to explore the importance of self-respect, of setting boundaries and embracing self-love. Through this performance, he invites to reflect on our own definition of growth.
In collaboration with Keðja
Photo: Carl Thorborg. TRANSIT at Skånes Dansteater
02 SEP / 15.00
Vitlycke Museum
Digital seminar
PERPETUATE MOTION
Celine Orman (SE)
How can we preserve contemporary dance for the future? Find an answer to this question in the seminar about Perpetuate Motion, a research and archival project documenting people's experiences of dance. Celine Orman works as a dance archivist at Skånes Dansteater and is the project manager for Bevara rörelse (Preserve Movement), a project that raises many intriguing questions about dance.
In collaboration with Keðja
Vacio San Francisco No.1 – Luciano Goizueta
02 SEP / 17.00
Vitlycke - CPA
Visual art exhibition / VERNISSAGE
Exhibition runs from 02—09 SEPTEMBER 2023
WHITE NOISE
Luciano Goizueta (CR)
White Noise ignites a conversation within HERE:2023.
Luciano’s integration of visual arts and technology challenges us to confront white noise and find meaning within its symphony.
Luciano’s love for science, self-awareness and art combines in a variety of works that can be colourful texturised acrylic, inspired by scientific phenomena, or decontextualised objects that explores the idea of abandonment and decaying of cities, miniature environments in a box, or a suitcase, and detailed collages covering large surfaces.
Photo: Andre Albrecht
02 SEP / 18.00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance
THE GAP
Liza Penkova (SE)
Drawing on Penkova’s own experience of encountering Western culture as a teenager and later contemporary dance, she attempts to make visible a feeling of constant delay. A kind of temporal gap which she needed to fill, in order to catch up with the timelines of contemporary Western aesthetics. Alternating between silence, music, soundtracks with voices from dance icons and her own reflections on norms and values between East and West, the audience is drawn into an hour long dance-solo with elements of melodrama and humour.
In collaboration with Keðja
Photo: Julie Hrnčířová
02 SEP / 20.00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance (16+)
Hedda Award 2023: Best dance performance.
BATTY BWOY
Harald Beharie (NO)
A dance solo which starts from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term ‘batty bwoy’ (literally: ‘butt boy’), slang for a queer person, the work is a corporal fiction, inseparable from queer blackness. It invokes demonic sensitivities and charming cruelties, while unfolding vulnerability, in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. The horror and joy of Batty Bwoy, inherent to queer blackness, is unmasked.
In collaboration with Keðja
02 SEP / 21:15
DJ-set / Party
03 SEP / Sunday
03 SEP / 18:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance. Swedish premiere
STILL LOVE
Csenger Szabó (HU) / Fenia Chatzakou (GR)
Still Love is a duet about relationships. It’s a dialogue through physical interaction in a playground-like environment. “A landscape of states emerges, and our presence emanates through moment to moment responses, that make up the coherent arch of narratives and meaning. An ever-growing physicality anchors us in space, and helps our emotions sublimate into differently coloured atmospheres. We play games to learn anew and to reinvent our love.”
Photo: Albert Vidal
03 SEP / 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Concert
MICROTUB
Robin Hayward (UK) / Peder Simonsen (NO)
Martin Taxt (NO)
Microtub is something as unique. Founded in 2010, it’s the world's first microtonal tuba ensemble. The trio intriguing sonic research exudes a powerful visceral quality. It has performed in festivals like Maerzmusik in Berlin, Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, Wien Modern, Ultima Festival in Oslo, INTONAL in Malmö and Sound of Stockholm. At HERE:2023 they will perform music from their upcoming album which was partly developed under a residency in Sweden, in October 2020. Here they explore new sounds using different half-valve fingerings for the tubas.
In collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan
Photo: Juliane Schütz
09 SEP / Saturday
Photo: Jerker Andersson
09 SEP / 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Concert
NOMAD
The Gothenburg Combo (SE)
The guitar is probably the world's most nomadic instrument with branchings in almost every culture and genre.
NOMAD is an unbroken musical journey through inner landscapes. NOMAD is about travelling without moving. An inner nomadic movement.
In collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan
Photo: Nina Đurđević
09 SEP / 20:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance (16+). Swedish Premiere.
HORIZON
Petra Hrašćanec (HR) / Saša Božić (HR) / Luka Švajda (HR) / Hahn Rowe (US)
HORIZON explores myths and rituals associated with
the desert, phenomena and relationships that evaporate, decay and disappear. It questions the ways of being in spite of the boundaries of our flesh and the environment that surrounds us. In that desert we are together, against; sensing the new, touching, longing and changing. Horizon offers visions, mirages, reflections and traces all for the purpose of creating a new ecology of being. An intriguing and dark piece.
Funded by European Union Creative Europe project Beyond Front@ Bridging Periphery
09 SEP / 21:00
DJ-set / Party
13 SEP / Wednesday
Photo: Sunčan Stone
13 SEP / 17:00
Vrangsholmen
Site specific. Performance. Swedish Premiere.
NATURE: Dialogue
Dragana Alfirević / Beno Novak / Marko Batista / Slobodan Maksimović (SI)
“We take the questions “Can we see dance as we see the nature? Can we enter the dance as we enter into the nature?” and ask how these questions in return form the ways of production of choreographic material and especially the ways of experiencing dance/ watching dance? What kind of exchange this becomes?”
NATURE: Dialogue will be presented site specific in two different locations outdoor in Tanum and also streamed digitally to several other locations.
Funded by European Union Creative Europe project Beyond Front@ Bridging Periphery
13 SEP / 18.00 Vitlycke - CPA
Visual Art Exhibition / VERNISSAGE
Exhibition runs from 13—23.09.2023
SUBSTRAT
Asle Nyborg (NO)
Asle's paintings are open to different techniques and approaches. Photo emulsion, regular photo, drawing and text. The paintings are made up of associations, inspirations and visual sources that fascinates him. "Many images have found their beginnings in song lyrics or dialogue fragments from favorite films, initiated by poetry collections and fiction. In my works there are all these different expressions and references to literature, film and music, especially clearly in the titles and text elements in the images. The work process is a constant dance to create a balance between chaos and harmony in the image, between surface and content."
Asle Nyborg lives and works in Höganäs and was the owner of Vitlycke before it became a residency place for performing arts.
Hvit elefant – Asle Nyborg
Photo: Anja Weber
13 SEP / 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance
U.F.O: Hommage to Katalin Ladik
Irena Z. Tomažin (SI) / Jule Flierl (DE)
The Hungarian-Serbian poet and performer Katalin Ladik is considered the ‘Yoko Ono of the Balkans’ — a pioneer of noise and performance art. Ladik’s radical performance UFO Party (1969), shook the artistic scene at the time.
In their first collaboration, German sound dancer Jule Flierl and Slovenian choreo-vocalist Irena Z. Tomažin celebrate their shared interest in Ladik's artistic position: a homage that blurs the boundaries between poetry, acting and experimental voice work, while continuing the two artists' own research into the physical experience of language and the articulation of different layers of the voice.
Funded by European Union Creative Europe project Beyond Front@ Bridging Periphery
14 SEP / Thursday
14 SEP / 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance (16+). Swedish Premiere.
BLOT - Body Line of Thought
Vanessa Goodman (CA) / Simona Deaconescu (RO)
BLOT explores movement in relation to the bacteria in our body. The show presents the body as an interconnected system, strong and fragile at the same time. Stripped of the social meanings determined by language, the body is redefined through a dialogue about our coexistence with microbiological beings.
In BLOT, our salts are a conductor of creativity, electricity, and infection. Salt is shared by all, from ocean to soil and body, and is an essential supporter of life on earth. A dune of salt creates a collective body on stage. Our perspiration system defines our biological identity through our unique body odour created by bacteria.
Funded by European Union Creative Europe project Beyond Front@ Bridging Periphery
Photo: Adi Bulboacă
16 SEP / Saturday
Photo: Neven Petrović
16 SEP / 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Performance (16+). Swedish Premiere.
AGENDA
Simone Aughterlony (DE/CH) / Saša Božić (HR)
Agenda stems from an extensive research into the term ‘stranger’ and the multitude of articulation within the concepts and affects of strangeness, diversity, and otherness, through the lens of the collage. The impulse to remix and re-edit media, as well as the analog desire to take, tear, and tape imagery.
A special collaboration of a large number of Croatian, German, Belgian and Swiss dance artists. The performance is included in the Zagreb Dance Center's Residential Program, and it premiered at the opening of the 40th Contemporary Dance Week Festival in June 2023 in Zagreb.
16 SEP / 20:00
DJ-set / Party
17 SEP / Sunday
17 SEP / 18:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Concert
BOHUSLÄN BIG BANG meets JENNIFER TORRENCE (US/NO)
The local music collective Bohuslän Big Bang is the best when it comes to blending together professional musicians/composers and independent amateurs passionate about sound. It involves a cohesive group of about 25 people.
Under the direction of American percussionist Jennifer Torrance, they will work on a program that includes poetic piece ‘Ricefall’ by Michael Pisaro-Liu, where 20kg of rice grains fall on leaves, ceramics, plastic and metal, and their own creative interpretation of gamelan music, on homemade scrap instruments!
In collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan
Photo: Karin Starre
20–23 September 2023
Dance Communication Lab
(DCL) at Vitlycke-CPA
DCL is organised within the framework of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery - a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) initiated by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke - Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance field.
OPEN CALL - apply for the participation in the lab APPLY HERE
23 SEP / Saturday
Photo: Francesco Scavetta
23 SEP / 18:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Improvisation
WELCOME
Public sharing of the Dance Communication Lab directed by Francesco Scavetta
Improvised performance by participants from Vitlycke-CPA’s edition of Dance Communication Lab, organised within Creative Europe project Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery. Directed and led by choreographer Francesco Scavetta, this improvised piece explores the theme of welcoming.
Funded by European Union Creative Europe project Beyond Front@ Bridging Periphery
23 SEP / 19:00
Vitlycke - CPA
Concert
HARP QUARTET AHA
Stina Hellberg Agback (SE) / Hélène Breschand (FR) / Milana Zaric (RS) / Rhodri Davies (GB-WLS)
Harpists Milana Zaric, Hélène Brechand, Rhodri Davies and Stina Hellberg Agback joins forces in a cutting-edge harp quartet, the AHA. The group was formed at the World Harp Congress in Wales in 2022, joined in the interest for experimental contemporary music, including improvisation and new music. Their individual experiences span from world premieres of world class composers, progressive rock music, orchestral work, jazz and free improvisation.
In collaboration with Gerlesborgsskolan