AND YET is a structured improvisation performance created by Francesco Scavetta, in collaboration with participants, with live music by Henrik Olsson.

It’s about listening. It’s the intermittent flow of give and take. It’s a sudden interruption of a series of beginnings; it’s about allowing the unfinished.
The act of vanishing: we are all searching for something to be grasped, if not it’s lost forever. It’s the constant dialectic between permanency towards irreversibility. The sense of loss and the manufacture of absence. It’s starting to say something in a conversation and deciding to remain silence instead. It’s like erasing. The ephemerality, and even the vulnerability of ‘performativity’ itself.

Scavetta and Olsson have been often collaborating and performing together, since their first project “Lost Accidentally” in 2017.

Francesco Scavetta

Scavetta has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly inventive work, playful humour and subversive intelligence. With the dance company Wee, that he established together with Gry Kipperberg, he has created 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 the core of the company’s investigation dealt with fragility and paradox, epiphany and dream, empathy and surprise, avoiding narrative and physical cliché, while questioning reality and identity with humoristic disbelief.

Henrik Olsson

Studied drums, classical percussion, improvisation and composition at The Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg and received his MFA in 2001. Henrik moves freely between notated music and free improvisation, blending acoustic and amplified sounds with the use of contact microphones.