16.01 - 17.01
Wee/Francesco Scavetta with musician Henrik Olsson and a group of dancers from eight different countries present the improvisation performance AND YET at Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg, on 16th and 17th of January.
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And Yet is organized as part of Performance and Dance Week 2025. At the beginning of 2024, Röda Sten Konsthall hosted a week of performances and dance, with the aim of encouraging new productions and collaboration with local practitioners of the movement-based and visual arts. The performance week was also a way to open up a conversation about the history of performative and diverse hybrid art practices that have been part of Röda Sten Konsthall’s history since the 1990s. In 2025, the week continues 14-19 January at Röda Sten.
Read more about Performance and Dance Week 2025 here
And Yet by Wee, Francesco Scavetta, Henrik Olsson
And Yet is a structured improvisation performance created by Francesco Scavetta, with eight dancers from eight countries, with live music by Henrik Olsson, and produced by Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts.
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 silent instead. It’s like erasing. The ephemerality, and even the vulnerability of ‘performativity’ itself.
Francesco Scavetta
Francesco Scavetta has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly inventive work and playful humor. With the dance company Wee, that he established together with Gry Kipperberg, he has created 23 full length performances and 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 has consistently 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. Olsson moves freely between notated music and free improvisation, blending acoustic and amplified sounds with the use of contact microphones.