Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is co-funded by the European Union.
Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in Beyond Front@ is co-financed by Swedish Arts Council and Västra Götalandsregionen.
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12.05 - 15.06
The residency is dedicated to the first period of rehearsals of a new project, titled NOWHERE LIKE HERE, by Francesco Scavetta (IT/NO/SE).
The piece is part of the 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.
This production involves dancers from project’s partner countries (6) selected through a series of auditions, held during Autumn 2024 in Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia.
The performance is based on Home Movie, a performance by Wee/Francesco Scavetta from 2022 that explores our emotional relationship to the concept of ‘home’, and the feeling of everyday experiences through a person’s life.
Photo: Tales Hendnes
Nowhere Like Here deals with our emotional responses to the connotation of “home” as a metaphor for identity, of domestic bliss, a place of warmth, comfort and affection, but also conflicts and routines. The place where to welcome and where to close the door and be by ourselves. Where we feel safe and where dishes can pile up. The utopian emotional location we recollect with nostalgia: it’s not a case that when talking about home, we often regress to childhood and refer to the place we grew up.