Nowhere Like Here
Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE)
Performance
Premiere
Nowhere Like Here deals with our emotional responses to the connotation of “home” as a metaphor for identity, of 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: it’s not a case that when talking about home, we often regress to childhood and refer to the place we grew up.
The performance unfolds a visual and metaphorical blueprint of the “home”, as a microcosm of the world, where thresholds are continually drawn and boundaries repeatedly broken. The dancers on stage rediscover daily rituals, embodying a physical cartography that keeps transforming in front of our eyes: the gesture of welcoming becomes an iconic forgotten language, connecting and rejecting at the same time, in a short circuit of contradictions. The image of the house becomes the topography of our intimate being: people need houses in order to dream, in order to imagine. A politic of the gaze, contra posed to the impression of the glance: epiphanic and restless.
Nowhere Like Here är en del av Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery - Kreativa Europa projekt (2023-2026) skapat av Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Ungern), Bunker (Slovenien), HIPP (Kroatien), Krakow Dance Theatre (Polen), M Studio (Rumänien) och Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sverige) för att stödja den lokala utvecklingen inom samtida dans. Beyond Front@ finansieras av Europeiska unionen. Vitlycke-CPA:s medverkan i Beyond Front@ medfinansieras av Kulturrådet och Västra Götalandsregionen.
Ytterligare referenser
Fotoboken “Pictures from Home” av fotografen Larry Sultan har varit en central inspirationskälla. Pictures from “Pictures from Home” är ett urval bilder på Sultans föräldrar, som tillsammans bildar ett slags familjealbum och sträcker sig från 1982 till 1992. Kameran fungerar som familjens främsta verktyg för självrepresentation – ett sätt att, åtminstone till synes, bevara minnet. Bilderna bidrar också till att forma begreppet “familj” och dess kulturella myt, som vittnesmål om en gemensam längtan efter berättelsen om hemfrid och familjelycka.
Men bilderna ger bara en illusion av att vara en enkel återgivning av verkligheten. Fotografiernas iscensättning fungerar snarare som en inramning av en dagdröm – av hur saker och ting borde vara. Allt är konstruerat i bilderna, men framstår som vardagligt och tröstande.
Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE)
Francesco Scavetta har etablerat sig internationellt tack vare sitt innovativa arbete, sin lekfulla humor och sin skarpa, subversiva intelligens. Hans danskompani, Wee/Francesco Scavetta, är en ledande aktör på den nordiska dansscenen. Wee grundades 1999 i Oslo tillsammans med Gry Kipperberg och har sedan dess producerat 24 fullängdsföreställningar samt turnerat i 37 länder över Europa, Mellanöstern, Asien och Amerika.
Scavettas verk har förändrats i både format och estetik, men de utforskar ständigt vad teater och performance kan betyda i vår samtida verklighet och vilka samtal de kan öppna med publiken. Hans teatralitet har ofta beskrivits som stämningen i en underlig dröm eller som en lekfull barnvärld — märklig, rolig, poetisk och samtidigt överraskande. Kärnan i hans undersökningar rör sårbarhet och paradox, uppenbarelse och dröm, empati och förvåning. Han undviker medvetet narrativa och fysiska klichéer och ifrågasätter istället verklighet och identitet med en humoristisk skepsis. Scavetta skapar föreställningar som engagerar och förvånar, väcker empati, vrider på förväntningar och förenar poesi med det oväntade.
Hans arbete har belönats med flera utmärkelser, bland annat Kulturpriset från Tanums kommun (Sverige, 2018), ”Årets artist” av Lokstallet Konsthall och Strömstads kommun (Sverige, 2016) samt ”Årets bästa föreställning” 2014 för den kroatiska versionen av Surprised Body Project. År 2003 fick hans soloföreställning Live beställning av Biennalen i Venedig och tilldelades första pris för sin integrering av dans, musik och video vid IMEB:s internationella elektroakustiska musikfestival i Bourges, Frankrike.
Utöver sin konstnärliga verksamhet har Scavetta lång och gedigen erfarenhet som lärare. Sedan 2005 har hans undervisningsprojekt A Surprised Body bjudits in till 47 länder i Nord-, Central- och Sydamerika, Europa, Afrika och Asien. Han har hållit workshops och masterclasses vid flera framstående institutioner och festivaler, bland andra IMPULSTANZ (Wien), P.A.R.T.S. (Bryssel), SEAD (Salzburg), Tanzquartier Wien, Greenwich Dance (London), K3 Hamburg och Hot Summer Kyoto International Workshop Festival (Japan).
Margareta Firinger (HR)
Based in Zagreb, Margareta Firinger is a freelance dancer and choreographer, and a graduate of SEAD in Salzburg. She was a member of the Zagreb Dance Company from 2019 to 2022 and is part of the Škvadra collective, creating original works across stage and film. In collaboration with Jovana Zelenović, she has developed several performances exploring personal and physical narratives. Since 2022, she has been active in various European projects, working with artists like Ana Kreitmayer, Saša Božić, and Toma Savić Gecan.
Magalí Camps (SE/ES/DK)
Magalí Camps is a dancer and choreographer based between Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Barcelona. A graduate of the Danish National School of Performing Arts, she has worked with Cullberg and collaborated with artists such as Alma Söderberg and Renan Martins. Her solo Double You Single View premiered in 2024 at Bora Bora (Denmark). She is also part of the La Verema collective, co-curating the L’ARREPLEGADA festival. Her artistic research centers on the interplay between language, writing, and singing—often intersecting with themes of intimacy and performance. Camps investigates the tension between the symbolic and the sensorial, tracing the blurred boundaries between music and speech.
George-Alexandru Pleșca (RO)
George-Alexandru Pleșca is a freelance performer and choreographer based in Bucharest. He holds both a BFA and MFA in Choreographic Arts and has developed an eclectic movement style influenced by ballroom, hip-hop, martial arts, and contemporary dance. His work is shaped by a deep interest in film, poetry, visual arts, and theatre—fusing these elements into a distinctive artistic language.
He is currently a member of the Contemporary Creative Dreamers dance company and the artistic group Late Field Collective. He frequently collaborates with organizations such as Delazero Association, Linotip, and CNDB, and teaches dance and movement classes to both beginners and advanced students, locally and across Romania.
Jerneja Fekonja (SI)
Jerneja Fekonja is a Slovenian performing artist and dancer based in Europe. She holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from BCDA in Budapest and has further training in physiotherapy from Germany. Since 2023, she has been a member of the NETZWERK AKS ensemble and has worked with artists and companies such as Unusual Symptoms (Theater Bremen), Willi Dorner, Lali Ayguadé, and Marco Torrice.
Alongside her performance career, Jerneja has experience in film production and cultural management, currently studying at Erasmus University. She has also worked as a rehearsal director and choreographic assistant in both independent and institutional settings. Since 2016, she has been active in Brussels with the MELTING POT dance practice, contributing as both performer and teacher in international dance events.
Michał Przybyła (PL)
Michał Przybyła is a performer, choreographer, and yoga teacher with a BA in Dance and Choreography from the University of Humanities and Economics in Łódź. He also studied Social Arts and Polish Sign Language Philology at the University of Warsaw. Michał trained with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel and danced with the Polish Dance Theater in Poznań (2016–2020). He has been a resident artist at several international institutions and is a recipient of prestigious scholarships, including danceWEB 2025.
He is the co-creator of the shows Black is my happy color, Bromance, and HUMANIMAL, and founder of the Queer School of Movement—a socio-educational project for queer youth. Since 2024, Michał has been a member of the Centrum w Ruchu collective.
Laura Tóth (HR)
An award-winning choreographer and performer, Laura has presented her work at international festivals such as Masdanza and Stuttgart Solo-Dance-Theatre. She has performed with leading Hungarian companies like Gangaray and Central Europe Dance Theatre and is currently active with Willany Leó Improvisational Dance Theatre and the international ICODACO program. Her work bridges structured choreography and improvisational depth
Credits
Concept, choreography: Francesco Scavetta
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Margareta Firinger, Magalí Camps, George-Alexandru Pleșca, Jerneja Fekonja, Michał Przybyła, Laura Tóth, Thomas Vantuycom.
Music: Kim Myhr
Sound technician: Matteo Dell’Unto
Dramaturge: Guy Cools
Scenography: Francesco Scavetta, Luciano Goizueta
Light design: Stefano Stacchini
Costume design: Mari Ballangrud
Photos: Naomi Pongolini