Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts announces an open call for the Summer Dance Academy, which will take place from 19–28 June at Vitlycke-CPA in Tanumshede, Sweden.
Summer Dance Academy 2025 @Vitlycke-CPA
19 – 21 June – Poetic Body workshop by Milan Tomášik (SK/SI)
Where attention goes energy flows – Poetic Body workshop represents a body that is fully present, alive, and engaged. It is an ongoing, immersive practice built on experience of Happy Feet and Playful Presence that draws on inclusive approaches and techniques such as contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition. It incorporates the concept of the body as an instrument or medium capable of expressing and embodying diverse movement qualities, rhythm, tension, emotions, and immaterial.
Milan Tomášik is a choreographer, performer, dancer, and teacher, with twenty years of professional performance experience, collaborating with diverse artists across Europe. He is co-founder of the Les SlovaKs dance collective with whom he created and performed critically-acclaimed works internationally. His choreographic experience includes commissioned works for companies, theatres and schools. Milan is regularly invited as a guest teacher around the world to deliver his signature workshop Poetic Body. He has been a recipient of the Dance Web Scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival (AT) and an award for the solo performance Off-beat at international festival Cortoindanza in Cagliari, Sardinia (IT).
22 – 24 June – Workshop by Matija Ferlin (HR)
The workshop, grounded in Matija Ferlin’s artistic practice, uses improvisation and composition to explore perception – around the dancer and within. Dancers will investigate how presence, movement, and stillness shape the performative body. They will be encouraged to reconsider their relationship to movement, presence, and the act of performance itself. This process-oriented approach enhances awareness and connection between body, space, and time, offering dancers tools to expand their artistic expression beyond movement.
Matija Ferlin is a Croatian theatre director, choreographer and performer. He has graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and subsequently lived and worked in Berlin and Toronto. He has presented and performed his works across Europe and the Americas at numerous festivals, including Impulstanz in Vienna and Festival Trans Amérique in Montreal. Since July 2023, he has been the artistic director of the Istrian National Theatre in Pula, where he continues to develop innovative stage productions and foster new artistic collaborations.
25 – 27 June – A Surprised Body by Francesco Scavetta (SE/IT)
Francesco Scavetta proposes a personal approach to contemporary dance, based on release technique and contact improvisation, influenced by his experience as a dancer, choreographer and as well by his practice of Tai Chi Chuan, that links a deep transformation of the body to delicate poetic of movement. A Surprised Body workshop focuses on centring and gravity; on awakening the internal and external supports, while allowing isolation in the limbs and flow in the movement. The research that led to the creation of the Surprised Body Project (the project that since its premiere in 2010 has been successfully presented in 27 countries) will ground the workshop.
Francesco Scavetta has developed a reputation on the international dance scene for his wildly inventive work, playful humour and subversive intelligence. In 1999, he co-founded the dance company Wee in Oslo with Gry Kipperberg, producing 22 performances and touring 37 countries. He has been leading workshops among others at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and Impulstanz/Wien. He is the founder of Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts.
https://wee-francescoscavetta.no/
