Francesco Scavetta

Born in Salerno, Italy, Francesco Scavetta studied at National Academy of Dance of Rome, graduated in Theatre and Performing Arts and Post-graduated in Sciences of Communication. Along his artistical path, he regards as a particularly valuable his meetings with such choreographers, teachers and director as Anne Theresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Giorgio Rossi/Sosta Palmizi, Dominique Dupuy, Adriana Borriello, Lans Gries/Trisha Brown and Bernardo Bertolucci.

Scavetta’s theatricality have 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.

“Francesco possesses an intelligence which is alive, knowledge which is both anarchical and surprising: for him, being an artiste involves an exploration of “subtraction”, subtraction which is also physical, he himself having become an agitated, thin, collection of dancer’s bones.
Subtraction of all that is superficial, of that pompousness and pretentiousness that connotes a great deal of current young Italian artistes. His loose-jointed, uncertain gait – the result of knowledgeable work on his body – is emblematic of his stage productions. Scavetta’s work fills your heart with such ease, and with poetry, which is as joyous, lively, bitter and agonizing as the ingredients of life itself. His wild defenseless expression, timid hand, the contagious desire to laugh and joke, his sapid taste for irony, to look at the world with childhood eyes – not affected or unnatural but adult. The game that Scavetta directs is a little party, and the dance (a careful meticulous construction of gestures, sequences, but also expressions and words) is a tale about every one of us. Memories, feelings and dreams heap together, becoming entwined as they are whispered and suggested. The outcome conserves the affable sweetness of a Chaplin film, the surreal comicality of Kaurismaki, the tragicomical nonsense of some Beckett, the nostalgic beauty of a country circus. Francesco who knows how to laugh and joke, with himself and others, animated by a healthy and
contagious madness…..” Andrea Porcheddu, Prima Fila

The lecture is organized within TOWARDS: 2019 workshop cycle. TOWARDS: is a cycle of intensive workshops that include physical praxis, evening lectures, video screenings and live performances. TOWARDS: offers the occasion to explore the work of renowned international artists, gaining an insight into their practice and methodologies as well the philosophical and poetic worlds that trigger their creative research. The project started in August 2018 with Julyen Hamilton’s workshop: Making Dances – Compositional and Poetic Richness.

TOWARDS is curated by Francesco Scavetta and organised by Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts, in collaboration with Sekoia – Artes Performativas. TOWARDS is supported by the Swedish Cultural Council.

For more information:
https://vitlycke.org/schedule_events/127