01/07/2026
photo: Naomi Pongolini
Following an intensive 10-day workshop with Francesco Scavetta, the process concludes with an informal showing. Welcome!
During the workshop, participants from different parts of the world have explored Scavetta’s personal approach to contemporary dance, rooted in release technique and contact improvisation. The method is shaped by his experience as a dancer and choreographer, as well as by his long-standing practice of Tai Chi Chuan.
Poetics of Movement combines profound physical transformation with a refined poetics of movement, placing sensitivity, presence, and relationship at its core. Themes such as memory, transience, absence, and the unfinished are explored—recurring motifs in Scavetta’s earlier works, including Hardly Ever, Lost Accidentally, And Yet, and Home Movie.
Francesco 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 24 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.”
