In “Hardly ever” the body of the performer is understood as a fiction upon which an endless multiplicity of possible body fictions can be written.

The performance plays with the gap between creating expectations and allowing the unexpected. It focuses on the transformative capacity of the performers, that are constantly re-negotiating their own creation in the eyes and ears of the audience, allowing the spectator to engage in their own associative process. “Do you believe in what I say or in what I show?”. The slight mismatch between verbal statements, that are personal and surreal, and physical answers challenges the audience and opens up for constantly new associations.

The space that surrounds the performers provides a platform for undefined expression, an experimental playground where the dancers lay out memories, listing questions and mapping the space, while constructing various instant physical identities and body fictions. A visionary cartography that unlocks and formulate meanings, creating bridges between here and there, connecting forms with meanings that we did not know were previously connected. The lyrics of the songs, and the accumulation of questions, inform with their meanings and generates personal associations for what they evoke.

In association with Stora Teatern.

Concept/choreography: Francesco Scavetta
Original version created in collaboration with: Gry Kipperberg, Erikk McKenzie, Orfee Schuijt and Thomas Vantuycom
Touring version performed by: Gry Kipperberg, Erikk McKenzie, Sigrid Kittelsaa Vesaas and Luke Divall
Dramaturge: Sasa Bozic
Costume design: Gjøril Bjercke Sæther
Stage design: Francesco Scavetta, Gjøril Bjercke Sæther and Per-Anders Karlsson
Light design: Stefano Stacchini
Sound design: Tormod Friis Pettersen and Kevin Sandman
Photo: Francesco Scavetta
Production: Wee
Co-production: Dansens Hus
In collaboration with: Vitlycke-Centre for performing arts, Göteborg Dans & Teater Festival and WASP/4Culture Bucharest
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Fond for Utøvende kunstnere, Norwegian Foreign Affairs UD/DTS and Fond for lyd og bilde

ARTIST TALK: Vitlycke – Centre for performing arts/ Francesco Scavetta

kl. 20.40 -21.00

After the performance you can listen to an artist talk with Francesco Scavetta, coreographer and dancer and Sarah Melin, producer for Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival.