TRANZIT#6: “NOWHERE LIKE HERE” – VITLYCKE-CPA/FRANCESCO SCAVETTA
8.8.2025.
15th November 2025 at 7.30 p.m.
HKD na Sušaku, Strossmayerova 1, Rijeka
Duration: 65 min
Dance performance
Tickets can be purchased online and at authorized Eventim sales points.
Concept, choreography: Francesco Scavetta
Created in collaboration with the dancers: Margareta Firinger, Magalí Camps, George-Alexandru Pleșca, Jerneja Fekonja, Michał Przybyła, Laura Tóth, Thomas Vantuycom.
Music: Kim Myhr
Sound technician: Matteo Dell’Unto
Dramaturge: Guy Cools
Scenography: Francesco Scavetta, Luciano Goizueta
Light design: Stefano Stacchini
Costume design: Mari Ballangrud
Production: Vitlycke-Centre for Performing Arts within the Beyond Fronta: Bridging Periphery, Creative Europe project (2023-2026).
Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in Beyond Fronta is co-financed by the Swedish Arts Council and Västra Götalandsregionen.
The production is inspired by the piece HOME MOVIE (2022). Concept, choreography: Francesco Scavetta; Created in collaboration with the dancers: Carl Aquilizan, Robin Haghi, Anika Edström Kawaji, Gry Kipperberg, Thomas Vantuycom; Dramaturge: Sasa Bozic; Costume design: Maren Saedi; Carpenter: Anders Hamre; Production: Wee; Co-production: Dansens Hus Oslo, Vitlycke-Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden); HOME MOVIE was supported by: Arts Council Norway, Fond for lyd og bilde, Fund for Performing Artists, Oslo Kommune.
NOWHERE LIKE HERE
“Home is where one starts from”. T.S. Eliot
“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.
“NOWHERE LIKE HERE” unfolds a visual metaphorical blueprint of the “home”, as a microcosm of the world, where are constantly traced thresholds and broken boundaries. 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
Additional references on the piece
The collection “Pictures from Home” by photographer Larry Sultan has been a key source of inspiration. “Pictures from Home” collects an accumulation of snapshots of Sultan’s parents, as part of a family album that dates from 1982 to 1992. The camera functions as the family’s primary instrument of self-representation by which, apparently, memory perpetuates. The images produced helps also in defining the term “family” and his cultural myth, attesting a common desire for a tale of domestic happiness. The images give just the illusion of being a simple transcription of the real. The staging of the photographs acts as framing a daydream: how things ought to be. Everything is constructed in the images and seemingly daily and comforting.
Additional Info
- Pre-Show Workshop: There will be a 90 minute workshop for interested audience before the performance on 14th Nov 2025
- Post-Show Talk: There will be a 30-minute post-show talk after the performance on 15th Nov 2025. The moderator is Iva Nerina Sibila, theatre and dance critic, publicist and dance artist from Zagreb, Croatia.
- Age Limit: Recommended for audiences aged 14 years and above.
- Latecomers Policy: Latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable break in the performance.
- Language: This is a dance / non-verbal performance.
| TYPE | PARTER | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| General | 15 euros | Online and at the box office |
| Early bird | 12 euros | Online before 1st September 2025 |
| FESTIVAL ticket for 5 performances | 50,00 euros | Only via email krila.rezervacije@gmail.com before 17th September 2025 |
| Group Sales (Bundle for 4) | 42,00 euros | Online and at the box office |
Nowhere Like Here is part of the Night of Theatre program. For more information about the Night of Theatre, visit their website.