AFRICA – ocram dance movement

Italy

AFRICA was born from the need the choreographer Claudio Scalia felt to express his opinion about human- nature relation, through a verypersonal choreographic language. The planet we live on is slowly changing, and little by little, dying, choking by emissions of carbon and greenhouse gases, overwhelmed by consumption of not renewable resources and by the temperatures of the air always higher and higher.
Our seas are full of plastic islands and this fact represents one of the main threats for our marine ecosystems and it is a growing risk for the biodiversity, for the environment and our health.
AFRICA expresses the choreographer’s desire to make new generations sensitive to the ecology and all this for better common future.
Greta Thunberg’s words resound inside Scalia’s choreographic work:” You have stolen mu dreams and my childhood… You are
letting us down but young people begin to understand your betrayal, the eyes of all the future generations look at you, and if you choose to fail we will never forgive you… the world is waking up and the changes are coming, no matter you like it or not”.
AFRICA represents a last temptation to reflourish our planet that is living in agony and reminds us that the life of the universe is a perpetual circle to be respected.

Credits
Production: ocram dance movement in collaboration with Scenario Pubblico/Compagnia Zappalà Danza Centro Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale
Choreographer: Claudio Scalia
Dancers: Rebecca Bendinelli, Ismaele Buonvenga, Rachele Pascale, Nunzio Saporito
Costumes: Gabriella Palomba
Music: Armand Amar, Jaap Blonk, Nikolaj Bjerre

AFRICA was presented in: 
2020 XXX Festival Internazionale del Balletto – (Italy) premiere
2020 SzòlòDuò Budapest – (Hungary) short version
2020 Black Box Festival – Plovdiv (Bulgary)
2021 Florence Dance Festival – (Italy) short version
2021 DanzArt Festival – Italy
2022 Blois Danse Festival – (France) short version

ocram dance movement is associated company with Scenario Pubblico – National Choreographic Dance Center in Catania

Duration: 50 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/370508622

Claudio Scalia (choreographer and performer)

Claudio Scalia was born in Catania.
She deepens her studies by traveling in Italy and abroad, coming into contact with different artistic realities and perfected herself by studying with choreographers such as: Eric Bauchesne, Carolina Mancuso, Joeri Alexander Dubbe, Igor Bachovic, Jon Bond, Medhi Walerskhi, Tilmann O’Donnel, Bryan Arias.
From 2019 he directs the ocram dance movement company together with Marco Laudani. For ocram he creates Africa in 2018, H(and)s and Placebo in 2021.
As a choreographer he participates in the SzòlòDuo Festival in Budapest, the Black Box Festival in Plovdiv, the Florence Dance Festival, the Gdansk Festival Tanca in Gdańsk.
In 2021 he won the choreographic prize at the International Solo Dance Competition Italy in collaboration with the Solo Tanz Theater festival in Stuttgart.
Since 2019 he has been choreographer for the Narnia Festival and artistic director of the training project for young dancers “Evergreen”.
Take part in the 2020 edition of NuoveTraiettorie XL – training courses for young authors | Anticorpi XL Network action coordinated by the Cantieri Danza Association.
From 2022 he is associated artist for the three-year period 2022/24 of the Scenario Pubblico National Choreographic Dance Center.

Damiano Scavo (performer)

Damiano is a young and ambitious author and dancer, since the beginning of his career, ocram dance movement is her home and much of her stage experience comes from the festivals where she is company was invited.
He enriches his baggage by participating in professional courses:
– Modem Pro – CompagniaZappalà Danza
– Biennale College Dance – The Venice Biennale
– New Trajectories XL | Action of the XL Antibody Network
– Dancescapes – in a landscape – Urban Dance Association
The most relevant contexts where Damiano has performed are:
● Italy – Dance Biennale, Florence Dance Festival, Perspective Dance Theater Award, MArteLive, Festival PresenteFuturo, Muddica After Seeds.
● Spain – CertamenCoreográficoDistrito de Tetuán, MaldàenDansa, Certamen Internacional de Choreography de Burgos & New York.
● Portugal – Quinzena de Dança de Almada.
● Hungary – SzòloDuo.
● USA – IDACO Italian Dance Connection.
During the studies develops a marked interest in urban performance, therefore participates in Dancescapes – in a landscape held by Associazione Danza Urbana and creates “Ovraccarico”, his first project participatory, selected for the PresenteFuturo Festival 2022.
In the following months he created the installation performances “Landa”, “Procrastinare” and “Rispettare”.
All Damiano’s creations are produced by ocram dance movement – company associated with Scenario Pubblico – national choreographic dance center.

Rachele Pascale (performer)

Rachele Pascale is a dancer of ocram dance movement by.
In 2019 she was admitted at Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s Dance Journey program.
She was invited at festivals: Quinzena de Dança de Almada (Portugal), Festival SzólóDuó, (Hungary), Certamen Coreograficodistrito de Tetuan, MaldàenDansa (Spain), Blois Danse Festival (France), Instanbul Fringe Festival (Turkey). She partecipates in “MoDem Pro” by Roberto Zappalà studying with the main choreographer and dancers “CompagniaZappalà Danza” in Scenario èubblico – National Choreographic Dance Center.

Irene Radinieri (performer)

RADINIERI Irene (1999, IT) began her dance studies at Officine della danza, where she had the opportunity to take part in several workshops with dancers and choreographers such as Tillman O’Donnel and Cyril Baldi. She attended many projects and she met international artists such as Ken Ossola, Roberta Ferrara, Camille Granet, Luke Brown and Antonin Comestaz. She took part in Africa, piece created by Claudio Scalia with the dance company Ocram Dance Movement directed.