Z, I LOVE YOU HONEY BUNNY

Idea, choreography: Francesco Scavetta

In collaboration with dancers: Anna Paola Bacalov, Sissel M. Bjørkli, Sigrid Edvardsson, Gry Kipperberg, Francesco Scavetta

Original Music: Jon Balke

Video: Tone Myskja, Jan Razman, Francesco Scavetta

Live-video editing: Jan Razman

Sound master: Anders Aaseboe

Lighting design: Stefano Stacchini

Lighting technician: Stefan Dombek

Costumes: Birgitte Lie

Scenography: Francesco Scavetta

Props/objects: Johannes Dimpflmeier

Production manager: Annalisa Dal Pra

Producer: Gry Kipperberg

Co-producers: ENZIMI/Zone Attive (Roma), Teatro Comunale di Cagli (PU)

Francesco Scavetta proves to be one of Norway's most interesting choreographers, whose work fills your heart with such ease, and with poetry which is as joyous, lively, bitter and agonizing as the ingredients of life itself. A poetical experience is what meets the eye once Scavetta's performance gets started. Charm and simplicity are the cue-words for the entire performance that captivates and reaches through to the feelings. The performance is stylish, elegant and complex. Nothing is obvious and yet it is all so seemingly simple. Lyric, hypnotic, delicate, dreamy... these are the words with which this performance could be defined, but Scavetta's performances mean much more - they are voyages around heart and fantasy, but also longing labyrinths of soul and memory. Wee's dance reaches a purity of motion, an abstraction from emotion able to touch the most secret notes of the audience.

WEE was established in Oslo (Norway) in 1999, by choreographer and dancer Francesco Scavetta (Italy) and dancer Gry Kipperberg (Norway). In a few years, it has become one of the leading companies of the Norwegian scene. Their personal way to tell stories, mixing together theatrical actions and pure dance, is transforming along a constant curiosity for different forms of art. A distinctive feature of last performances is an integrated use of originally composed music, played live, and video art. Their theatricality has often been associated with the atmosphere of a weird dream or with a playful world of a child, strange, funny, poetic and, at the same time, surprising. The core of the research has always been dealing with fragility and paradox, epiphany and dream, empathy and surprise, avoiding narrative and physical cliché, questioning reality and identity with humoristic disbelief. Never wanting to be something different from what we are, never escaping from our biography, but actually talking about ourselves.