Dancer and choreographer Magalí Camps, in close collaboration with artists Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir and Léana Licius, begins the choreographic project FIASCO. Stemming from the literary work “Time is a Mother” by Ocean Vuong, the project is rooted in the notions of fiction and semantics, reflecting how the body can become the source and protagonist of a story.

Through modes of collecting and generation of scenes, Magalí Camps begins a new research, continuing her work on language and the joy of dance and companionship. How to hold onto a narrative, a depicted story through dance? How can the formality of literature be brought into choreographic staging? FIASCO is a choreographic project for three performers that takes non-stopping as its driving principle for stage composition. The performers enter the stage and remain there for the entire duration of the work, without stopping.

This second week-long residency in Vitlycke serves as a continuation from which to delve into Camps’ choreographic practice, artistic gut-feelings and intuitions, to begin the world-making of a piece. The residency is meant to be a research laboratory for the various aspects of the creation.

Magalí Camps
Magalí Camps is a Catalan dancer and choreographer. Working between Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, she graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts and has worked with Cullberg and the associated choreographers Alma Söderberg, Jefta van Dinther, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Jeanine Durning. She closely collaborates Paula Ramis and has worked with Doris Uhlich, Alma Söderberg, Francesco Scavetta, Joana Öhlschläger, Ingri Fiksdal, Renan Martins. Her work in dance revolves around the convergence of language, writing and singing, intersecting with concepts of intimacy and performance. She is actively part of the collective La Verema, with whom she produces the festival L’ARREPLEGADA.

Léana Licius
Léana Licius is a dancer and performer based in Copenhagen. Originally from Toulouse, Léana first met dance with Hip Hop and later on, contemporary dance at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Toulouse. After graduating at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Léana has been working with the dance company Norrdans for the season 24/25, and is now freelancing in Denmark and Sweden. Her interest in dance lies with the pleasure of moving, complexity of rhyhtm and musicality, connotation, building universes, images and drawings.

Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir
Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic dancer and performing artist based in Copenhagen. They graduated with a BA in dance from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and The Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2024. Since then Þórunn has worked with choreographers such as Institute of Interconnected Realities, Doris Uhlich, and Alice Minar. Þórunn’s own artistic practice explores the intersection of the natural and the artificial, questioning boundaries between the human and the animal, the self and the other; approaching choreography as a way of thinking through the body.