Poetics of Movement
Intensive workshop by Francesco Scavetta
23 June – 3 July, 2026
at Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts, Tanumshede, Sweden

Workshop period:
10 working days, (60 hours, 1 day off).
Arrival: 22 June. Departure: 4 July.
Informal showing: 3 July.
Fee: 330 €

The accommodation is included for a limited number of participants. Discount for
people that already attended previous workshops in Vitlycke-CPA. We aim to have a
selected group. Limited number of places are available on a first-come, first-served
basis.

Application deadline: 23 May, 2026

For enrolments, fill in the google form

If you have any questions, please write to: workshop@vitlycke.org

Poetics of Movement
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 unaccomplished. 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.

The investigation will take inspiration from projects as “Hardly Ever”, “Lost Accidentally”, “And Yet” and “Home Movie”.


Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE)
Scavetta has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly
inventive work, playful humour and subversive intelligence and his company is at the
forefront of the Nordic dance scene. In 1999 he established in Oslo, together with Gry
Kipperberg, the dance company Wee and, since then, has produced 22 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 they have continuously
explored what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life and what kind
of dialogues they can open with the audience. Scavetta’s theatricality has often been
associated with the atmosphere of a weird dream or to a playful world of a child:
strange, funny, poetic and, at the same time, surprising. The core of the company’s
investigation deals with fragility and paradox, epiphany and dream, empathy and
surprise, avoiding narrative and physical cliché, while questioning reality and identity
with humoristic disbelief. “Wee creates performances that can engage and amaze, can
evoke empathy and twist expectations, that can be both poetic and unusual, and that
we experience as a challenge first of all for ourselves: that surprises us, as much as it
talks to us and about us.”

Born in Italy, Scavetta studied at National Academy of Dance of Rome, graduated in
Theatre and Performing Arts and Post-graduated in Sciences of Communication. He is
the founder of Vitlycke-Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden).

Scavetta has been giving workshops among others at: P.A.R.T.S./Brussels,
IMPULSTANZ/Wien, Henny Jurriëns Foundation/Amsterdam, SEAD/Salzburg
Experimental Dance Academy, Greenwich Dance/London and in many dance/theatre
festivals in 47 countries around the world.