Concept, choreography: Francesco Scavetta
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Margareta Firinger, Magalí Camps, George Alexandru Pleșca, Jerneja Fekonja, Michał Przybyła, Laura Tóth
Music: Kim Myhr
Sound technician: Matteo Dell’Unto
Dramaturge: Guy Cools
Scenography: Francesco Scavetta, Luciano Goizueta
Light design: Stefano Stacchini
Costume design: Mari Ballangrud
Photos: Naomi Pongolini
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.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
25.08 - 14.09
This residency is dedicated to the creation of Nowhere Like Here, a collaborative performance created as part of the Creative Europe project Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery. The collaboration led by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), involves as partners: Bunker (Slovenia), HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden). The aim of the project is to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields. The piece will have its premiere on 12 and 13 September, during HERE:2025. International Performing Arts Festival. Read more about Nowhere Like Here on festival’s website: https://www.here-festival.org
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.
The performance unfolds a visual and metaphorical blueprint of the “home”, as a microcosm of the world, where thresholds are continually drawn and boundaries repeatedly broken. The dancers on stage rediscover daily rituals, embodying a physical cartography that keeps transforming in front of our eyes: the gesture of welcoming becomes an iconic forgotten language, connecting and rejecting at the same time, in a short circuit of contradictions. The image of the house becomes the topography of our intimate being: people need houses in order to dream, in order to imagine. A politic of the gaze, contra posed to the impression of the glance: epiphanic and restless.
Nowhere Like Here is a new piece choreographed by Francesco Scavetta, 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.