HERE:2025 - Dance Becomes Her + Nowhere Like Here

Dance Becomes Her - Lilian Steiner (AU/SE)SEPTEMBER 13 / 17:00VRÅNGSHOLMEN The dancing body is not one that grows solo. It feeds off those around it, consciously and subconsciously, in a pinpoint moment in time and across expanded duration. Both through and without language, learnings accumulate within the body, within the spaces it occupies and in the archive of memory.... and the dancing body is a tool acquired by Dance itself. Dance wears us, like a costume. Dance Becomes Her is a performance-lecture that addresses the ways that dance and embodied knowledge is shared between and archived within bodies across time. It articulates thoughts on this topic through simultaneous dancing and speaking. The text that is spoken is predetermined and carefully crafted, while the dancing is largely improvised, framed by some key predetermined structural choices. ​​In this performance-lecture, language and movement collide, mix, and slip past each other—articulating and demonstrating the subject in ways that neither form could achieve alone. Nowhere Like Here - Francesco Scavetta (IT/SE) SEPTEMBER 12 / 19:00VITLYCKE - CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS 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 part of the Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery, 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. Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery is funded by the European Union. Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in Beyond Front@ is co-financed by Swedish Arts Council and Västra Götalandsregionen.Find out more about artists & performances: www.here-festival.org