Photo credits (left – right): Aslaug Gravfort, Mahtab Motlagh, Utu Iida Maria Liimatainen, Shawn Fitzgerald
11.05 - 31.05
DancEUA Artist-in-Residence is organized as a part of the dancEUA, a Creative Europe project (2024-2027) created by Studio Contemporary Dance Company – SSP (Croatia), Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), M Studio (Romania), Vitlycke – CPA (Sweden) and UA Contemporary Dance Platform (Ukraine) to empower Ukrainian contemporary dance through creativity, connection and resilience. The DancEUA residency program is designed to foster artistic dialogue, support the development of individual projects, and encourage collaboration between artists from Ukraine and the partner countries.
The residency will take place from 11 to 31 May, 2026. During this period, we will host three artistic projects from three partner countries Ukraine, Sweden and Hungary. The residency will provide the artists with an opportunity to further develop their artistic projects and to receive feedback from an experienced mentor, Saša Božić, a Croatian theatre director and dramaturge.
The residency will culminate with an informal showing on Friday, 29 May, 18.00.
DancEUA is co-financed by European Union. Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in the project is financed by Kulturrådet.
ARTISTS OF DANCEUA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Daria Hordiichuk (UA) – Forgotten Garden
Forgotten Garden
“In the garden we forgot, time grew wild.”
A garden is created to be cared for. When it is forgotten, it transforms — not into decay, but into transition.
What happens to a body that is no longer tended to?
What remains alive inside silence?
Through movement, the performance explores fragility, renewal, and the persistence of memory.
A landscape shaped by absence.
By traces of what once was there.
Daria Hordiichuk is a Ukrainian dance artist working as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and movement director across theatre, opera, and commercial contexts. She is also the co-founder of the ACT educational dance program in Kyiv. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in choreography and dance from Rivne State Humanities University (Ukraine) and continued her studies at Biennale College Danza in Venice (dir. by Wayne McGregor). Her professional path includes work with Totem Dance Theatre and Insha Dance Company (Kyiv), an internship at Tanztheater Wuppertal, Pina Bausch, and work with Of Curious Nature theatre (Germany).
Her experience spans stage performances, opera, dance film, and interdisciplinary projects across Ukraine and Europe, including works by internationally recognized choreographers such as Damien Jalet, William Forsythe, Xie Xin, Kor’Sia, as well as participation in interdisciplinary and exhibition projects (including collaborations with
MOCA).
Eszter Rápolthy (HU) & Natalie Cox (HU/DK) – STAND/BY
STAND/BY is an interactive dance performance that investigates the bystander effect—a social psychological phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a person in need when others are present. As the title suggests, the work explores the dual meaning of “standing by” as both passive observation and the heightened readiness of being “on standby,” revealing a shared tension between inaction and potential action.
Music by Nick Sonne.
Ulrik Ørsnes Jansen (DK) & Anni Koivusalo (FI) – A Storm in a Teacup
A Storm in a Teacup is a duet inspired by a massive landslide in Greenland which left the entire Earth vibrating for nine days. The performance deals with concepts of relationality and ideologies of eco-socialism in relation to the environment and climate crisis. Bringing perspective to scale and proportion we are zooming in and out of the teacup: the individual, the shared, the collective. In the DancEUA residency in Vitlycke we are starting our creative
process with this framework.
Anni Koivusalo and Ulrik Ørsnes Jansen are two freelance dance artists working with dance in a wide range of contexts – from dancing, choreographing, teaching, curating and organising. Through improvisation and other contemporary dance practices we explore themes such as relationality and subjectivity. We play with fiction and speculation as a way of imagining other ways of relating.