The Summer Academy is organized within Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is 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.
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Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in Beyond Front@ is co-financed by Swedish Arts Council and Västra Götalandsregionen.
22.06 - 24.06
22 – 24 June – Workshop by Matija Ferlin
The workshop, grounded in Matija Ferlin’s artistic practice, uses improvisation and composition to explore perception – around the dancer and within. Dancers will investigate how presence, movement, and stillness shape the performative body. They will be encouraged to reconsider their relationship to movement, presence, and the act of performance itself. This process-oriented approach enhances awareness and connection between body, space, and time, offering dancers tools to expand their artistic expression beyond movement.
The Summer Dance Academy is a 10-day training, development, and artistic research workshop program led by an international team of choreographers: Milan Tomašik (SI), Matija Ferlin (HR) and Francesco Scavetta (SE/IT). The Academy will conclude with a public presentation, where participants will showcase the work they have developed throughout the workshop program.
This Academy is organised within Beyond Front@ project and will gather a group of 12 dancers from project’s partner countries: Sweden, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Hungary.
As a dancer from these countries, you can send in your application for participation in the Summer Dance Academy until 20 April. Read more and apply here: https://vitlycke.org/schedule_events/358
22 – 24 June – Workshop by Matija Ferlin
The workshop, grounded in Matija Ferlin’s artistic practice, uses improvisation and composition to explore perception – around the dancer and within. Dancers will investigate how presence, movement, and stillness shape the performative body. They will be encouraged to reconsider their relationship to movement, presence, and the act of performance itself. This process-oriented approach enhances awareness and connection between body, space, and time, offering dancers tools to expand their artistic expression beyond movement.
Matija Ferlin is a Croatian theatre director, choreographer and performer. He has graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and subsequently lived and worked in Berlin and Toronto. He has presented and performed his works across Europe and the Americas at numerous festivals, including Impulstanz in Vienna and Festival Trans Amérique in Montreal. Since July 2023, he has been the artistic director of the Istrian National Theatre in Pula, where he continues to develop innovative stage productions and foster new artistic collaborations. www.matijaferlin.com