23 SEP 18:00
Vitlycke - CPA
WELCOME
Francesco Scavetta (SE/IT) / Dancers from various countries
Public sharing of the Dance Communication Lab directed by Francesco Scavetta
Duration: 45 min
Improvised performance by participants of 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. The greeting, welcoming rituals as brief, interactive experiences that brings the voice of every participant into the room and creates connections.
Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) created 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 fields.
After three days of joint work in the lab, this selected group of dancers from Beyond Front@ partner countries will present their work to the public of HERE:2023.
CREDITS
Dance Communication Lab participants: to be announced.
Direction: Francesco Scavetta
Photo: Tale Hendnes
Organized within Creative Europe project Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery.
Co-funded by European Union.
With support by Kulturrådet
BIO
FRANCESCO SCAVETTA
Scavetta has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly inventive work, playful humour and subversive intelligence and his company Wee/Francesco Scavetta is at the forefront of the Nordic dance scene. Established in Oslo in 1999, together with Gry Kipperberg, Wee has produced 23 full length performances and experienced an extensive international activity, touring in 37 countries -in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North, Central and South America.
Wee’s creations have changed in format and aesthetic, yet they have continuously explored what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life and what kind of dialogues they can open with the audience. Scavetta’s theatricality has often been associated with the atmosphere of a weird dream or to a playful world of a child: strange, funny, poetic and, at the same time, surprising. The core of the company’s investigation deals with fragility and paradox, epiphany and dream, empathy and surprise, avoiding narrative and physical cliché, while questioning reality and identity with humoristic disbelief. “Wee creates performances that can engage and amaze, can evoke empathy and twist expectations, that can be both poetic and unusual, and that we experience as a challenge first of all for ourselves: that surprises us, as much as it talks to us and about us.”
Scavetta has had a long and extensive teaching experience and his method and research has been highly appreciated in Norway and abroad. Since 2005, the teaching project “A Surprised body” has been invited internationally in 44 countries in North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle and Far East. Scavetta has been invited to hold workshops for Academies of dance, private dance centres, Universities and professional companies, often in collaboration with theatre directors, composers, visual artists and musicians.