Dance Communication Lab in Vitlycke-CPA, Sweden

Dance Communication Lab
14 – 16 November 2024, Vitlycke-CPA, Sweden

Application deadline: 29 September 2024
Application here: google forms

Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts is looking for participants for DCL – Dance Communication Lab in Vitlycke-CPA, Sweden, 14-16 November 2024. Dancers from Beyond Front@ partner countries: Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Sweden are welcome to apply.

DCL is organized within the framework of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery – 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.

What is DCL?

DCL – Dance Communication Lab is a 3-day-long workshop-exchange that focuses on dance improvisation as an important component of the creative process in contemporary dance. The aim of the DCL is to give 6 professional dancers from partner countries the opportunity to get to know each other through dance improvisation.

DCL in Vitlycke-CPA – “My body is a room filled with …”

DCL at Vitlycke will be led by choreographer and dancer Liza Penkova.

The workshop stems from one of the research periods behind the “18 steps through (dance) history” – trilogy that Liza Penkova initiated in 2020.

If we think of our body as a room, what kind of furniture is in it? What kind of books are standing on the shelves? What size is it? What material is predominant? Is it a coherent interior or a more chaotic compilation of souvenirs? Second-hand or new? Is there anything in it you try to hide?

In this workshop Liza Penkova proposes each participant to reflect on their dancing background as different objects/traces/memories inhabiting their body. What are the predominant narratives, timelines? How do they manifest? In rhythm, style, texture? Every day we will be mapping out our collective bridges, entrances and exits in and within the contemporary dance field. Through improvisational tasks, reflective writing and storytelling the group of participants will be working towards an impromptu dialogue between past and present canonizations, techniques and norms that has transformed our bodies into the rooms they have become. We need the past to reflect on what has come before us and to thereby understand where we are going. The goal is to refurnish, update and recycle. But also to learn from each other.

This DCL will conclude with a public improvised performance, presented on 16 November at Vitlycke – CPA.

Liza Penkova

Liza Penkova is a choreographer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her interest lies in the processes of translation across and within performing arts traditions and its aesthetics. She often relies on historical archives as an important source of inspiration in both her artistic and academic work. With dance and choreography as her foundation, she looks for borderless encounters of performing genres, traditions and physical cultures.

Previously a long term dancer with choreographers Anna Theresa de Keersmaeker and Michele Noiret in Belgium, as well as a freelance collaborator with Scandinavian choreographers Helena Franzén and Veli Lehtovaara. Penkova initiated a diverse range of collective projects such as “Phd in one night” and “House of Bertha” before deciding to focus on her own work in 2020. Read more about Liza’s work here: https://penkova.cc/

Who is the DCL for?

The DCL is for aspiring professional dancers and dance artists from Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery partner countries: Sweden, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Romania. The Dance Communication Lab will select one dancer from each country.

When and where?

13 November – arrival day to Vitlycke-CPA
14 – 16 November – DCL
16 November 18.00 – public presentation of DCL
17 November – departure day

The lab will take place at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Vitlycke gård 3, Tanumshede, Sweden). More info about Vitlycke-CPA: www.vitlycke.org

What do we offer?

Vitlycke – CPA provides:
Accommodation for four nights, 13 – 17 November
Per diem (75 EUR in total)

The Beyond Front@ project national partner from your country of residence will cover:
Travel costs.
Your artistic fee in the amount of 150 EUR

How to apply?

Apply to DCL via Google Form.

Application deadline: 29 September 2024.

All dancers will be notified by e-mail within 2 weeks after the deadline.

Any questions? Write to opencall@vitlycke.org

Audition for Beyond Front@ Common Creation Performance

Application deadline: 11 August – December 2024

Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts and Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery are inviting dancers from Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland and Romania, to join a new contemporary dance performance created by choreographer Francesco Scavetta.

Vitlycke-CPA is looking for contemporary dancers, with strong improvisation and performative skills, interested in working in the project. Auditions are for artists based in project partner countries: Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland and Romania. One artist from each partner country will be invited to join the production.

The production will explore our emotional relationship to the concept of ‘home’ as a metaphor for identity and as a microcosm of the world, where constantly thresholds are traced, and boundaries broken. The place where to welcome and where to close the door and be by ourselves, where to rediscover daily rituals, embodying a physical cartography that keeps transforming in front of our eyes: the sense of ‘everyday’, experienced during a lifetime. The project is a continuation of the creative process started with the piece Home Movie created by WEE/Francesco Scavetta in 2022. More information: Dansenshus

Auditions are organised as part of Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery – 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.

Francesco Scavetta

Francesco 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.
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 giving classes, workshops and masterclasses, among others, at: IMPULSTANZ/Wien, Hot Summer Kyoto International Workshop Festival (Japan), P.A.R.T.S./Brussels, SEAD/Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy. Read more about Francesco Scavetta here: https://wee-francescoscavetta.no

Dates of auditions:

- 17 – 18 August 2024 – Krakow Dance Theatre dance studio in Krakow, Poland. Last application date: 11 August.
- 13 – 14 November 2024 – Zagreb Dance Center in Zagreb, Croatia. Last application date: 14 October
- 15 – 16 November 2024 – Bunker in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Last application date: 14 October
- December 2024 (exact date will be announced soon) – Central Europe Dance Theatre (CEDT), Budapest, Hungary.
- December 2024 (exact date will be announced soon) – M Studio, Saint George, Romania.

In case of many applications, we might need to do a pre-selection, you will be informed about this before the audition.
*After the first audition day, selected dancers will join the second day.

Rehearsals:

First period: May/mid-June 2025. TBC
Second period: 1 – 14 of September 2025. TBC

NB! Exact periods to be confirmed.
The rehearsals will take place in residency at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts, Sweden.

Premiere and tour:

- 14 September 2025 – Premiere within the next edition of the International Performing Arts Festival HERE:2025. Read more about the festival: www.here-festival.org
- Late October/November 2025 – Touring period in Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland and Romania (minimum 5 performances). OBS! Exact dates TBC.

Contract

Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery covers travel, subsistence and accommodation costs of dancers related to rehearsals, premiere in Vitlycke-CPA and tour in partner countries. Artists receive a fee of 6.500 € for the production.

How to apply:

Apply HERE on google forms

Last application dates:
In Krakow, Poland: 11 August.
Zagreb, Croatia: 14 October
Ljubljana, Slovenia: 14 October
Budapest, Hungary: 17 November
Bucharest, Romania: 17 November

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