21.10 - 25.10
This weeklong workshop is a collaboration between the MFA in Film program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and the Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts. Eight first-year Film students will participate at Vitlycke, working alongside dancers to explore transdisciplinary collaboration in creative practices. The focus will be on embodied, affective and sensorial practices in general and their affordances in filmmaking. The workshoped is devised and led by choreographer Francesco Scavetta.
HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
Master of Fine Arts Programme in Film
The two-year master’s programme in Film is an education that focuses on developing research methods and skills with moving images. The programme facilitates creative practices in film by exploring its connections to theory. In an environment facilitated through critical pedagogy students are invited to express their film practice in relation to the world: from historical connections to contemporary socio-political issues.
Francesco Scavetta (SE/IT)
Scavetta has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly inventive work, playful humour and subversive intelligence and his company is at the forefront of the Nordic dance scene. In 1999 he established in Oslo, together with Gry Kipperberg, the dance company Wee and, since then, has produced 22 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.”
Born in Italy, Scavetta studied at National Academy of Dance of Rome, graduated in Theatre and Performing Arts and Post-graduated in Sciences of Communication. He is the founder of Vitlycke-Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden).
Scavetta has been giving workshops among others at: P.A.R.T.S./Brussels, IMPULSTANZ/Wien, Henny Jurriëns Foundation/Amsterdam, SEAD/Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy, Greenwich Dance/London and in many dance/theatre festivals in 46 countries around the world.