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The Magical Other – Milena Ugren Koulas

Cyprus

The Magical Other is a little choreographic work that belongs to my ongoing bigger research about how trauma affects people and how traumatic experiences shape the way we think, move, communicate, and relate to others. In this piece together with dancers, we explored how unhealed trauma creates magnetic, destructive, and awkward communication between people. “The Magical Other” is about the desperate search for each other to mend the trauma.

Credits:
Choreographer: Milena Ugren Koulas, in collaboration with dancers
Dancers: Elena Gavriel, Katerina Tylliridou
Music: Dafni Koulas

The Magical Other premiered at the Cyprus Choreography Platform in Limassol, in November 2022

Duration: 15 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/804666185/3a035e888a

 

Milena Ugren Koulas

Milena Ugren Koulas was born in 1979 in the former Yugoslavia. She graduated from Codarts University of Arts in Rotterdam in 2003 and in 2019 from COMMA Master Choreography in the Netherlands. For the last 18 years she has been living and working as a professional dancer and choreographer in Cyprus. In collaboration with her husband, drummer, Giorgos Koulas, Milena performed her work in Cyprus and abroad in Serbia, Greece, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia and Turkey. Milena was one of the selected artists of Aerowaves in 2015. In 2019/2020 she was a guest choreographer at Codarts University and in 2020 she was a guest lecturer at COMMA Master Choreography.

Katerina Tylliridou

Katerina Tylliridou was born in 1994 in Limassol. She graduated from Ralllou Manou school in Athens in 2016. Since then, she has been working as a professional dancer in Cyprus and has collaborated with choreographers: Fotis Nicolaou, Chloe Melidou, Roula Kleovoulou, Evie Panagiotou, Lambros Lambrou, Artetanza dance company, Allan Falieri, Milena Ugren Koulas. In 2019-2020 she took part in the Jasmin Vardimon 2 program in England.

Elena Gavriel

Elena Gavriel is a dance artist and performer currently based in Cyprus. After her graduation in performing arts and professional dance in 2014, Elena worked for the contemporary dance company Chrysalis London which gave her the opportunity to perform in several theatres in the UK. She was also featured in the movie ‘Patient Zero’ which was released in August 2018. She has been living in Cyprus since 2019 and has collaborated with choreographers: Lambros Lambrou, Elena Antoniou, Evi Panagiotou, Suzana Phialas, Alexis Vasiliou and Milena Ugren Koulas.

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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.

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Lifelines – Motoya Kondo Hoshiko Yamane

Japan

This is an experiment to apply ancient Japanese theatre methods in search of radical contemporary performing art. Tearing off unnecessary decorations, it reveals the raw, naked, and rich reality of life with the presence of the sound and body with an extremely simplified setting, one violin and one body.
The musician does not rely on the melody but rather primordial energy of the sound itself, subtle variations of each texture of the sounds and the vitality of each stroke of the violin which create abstract and tactile sounds that vibrate the space and penetrate into the skin of the dancer and the audience.
The dancer does not rely on the storyline nor numerous flowing body lines of movements, but rather the presence of the body itself. The movement is extremely subtle as if each cell and nerve are dancing instead of muscles.
The perception of time and space is deconstructed. The movement of the dancer is the continuity of the discontinuous moments. As a result, it transforms our daily sense of space as well.
And ultimately the silence behind the sound, stillness behind the movement is going to be revealed, inviting audiences to the primordial ground from which all sounds and movements emerge.

Credits
Dance: Motoya Kondo
Music: Hoshiko Yamane

The performance has been shown in Köln, TenriJapanisch-Deutsche Kulturwerkstatt, in September 2022

Duration: 40 min.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/edQzBURN9g4

 

 

Motoya Kondo

Born in Nagoya, Japan, choreographer, dancer, and co-founder of Motimaru Dance Company. From 2005 he had been studying butoh with Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo Ohno and worked as his assistant. After 2010 he has started field work researches of local and traditional dances in Japan, India, Nepal, Spain, and Bali, studied Balinese dance with AgunAnom Putra, I Made Djimat, and Ida Bagus Oka Wirjana. Since 2008, he has been immersed in the practice and study of Eastern contemplative traditions, particularly following the Tibetan traditions, and bridging between contemporary art practices and the age old wisdom.
He has been performing and teaching in: Venezia Biennale 2010, 9th International Choreography Competition “No Ballet”, International Dance Festival Lucky Trimmer 2016, Hildesheim University, Leipzig University, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, etc., Europe, Asia, Australia in over 35 cities.

Hoshiko Yamane

Japanese classically trained violinist and composer. Being highly evaluated by the legend Edgar Froese, she joined as a member of Tangerine Dream since 2011. She started classical training at 4 years old, graduated from Aich Prefecture University of Art and Music with the Master of Fine Art for the violin, and after, graduated for Diploma in the violin in University of Music and Theater in Rostock in Germany.
She has been working on her solo projects as well as with others in many different fields such as Jane Birkin, Library Tapes, Masayoshi Fujita, Picture Palace Music, etc. As a composer, she is working with Decca Publishing. Her album was released from 1631 Recordings.

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We find each other in the Plenum – ANEMA Dance Company

Greece

We find each other in the plenum` is a duet. The full (plenum) is the opposite of the vacuum. We are talking about the plenum of each one of us. At that moment both are in the core of the plenum, which is nothing but the middle of the vacuum. Those moments when everyone, in an unremitting effort to gain independence, does not survive without the other. The important Other is the one that affects my thoughts, my feelings. She is the one who creates my reality. In an empty space, surrendered to its simplicity, everything is reflected. We commit ourselves and through contact, we research relationships under the surface. The relationships within us, which give a meaning to encouragement, support, trust. A complete and at the same time unrelated relationship. Difficult to balance.

Credits
Idea / Choreography: Zoi Efstathiou
Co-Creator: Sofia Martiou
Interpretation: Zoi Efstathiou, Sofia Martiou
Composition: Fabian Fiorini
For the song “The Echoes of a Distance”
Composition: Athena Routsi, Claudia Matola
Rhodes: Alkistis Raftopoulou
Recording: Fotis Mylonas
Costumes: Ellada Damianou
Special thanks to: Kinitiras Artistic Network for Performing Arts
Photo credits: Ypatia Kornarou

was presented in:
Szolo Duo Competition (2022) – Audience Preference Award
The Black Box Festival (2022) – Bulgaria
ARC for Dance Festival – Δημοτικό Θέατρο Πειραιά (2021)
Rotterdam International Duet Choreographic Competition (2021) – Audience Preference Award
Our Festival (2020) – Θέατρο Ρεματιάς

Duration: 25 min.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/fUoO9FrP0Ao

 

 

Zoi Efstathiou

Zoi Efstathiou was born in Greece. Since 2016 she has collaborated with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker as a Repertory dancer in Belgium.
Between 2013 and 2016 she performed with Michèle Noiret’s production “Hors – Champ”.
Between 2010 and 2015 she collaborated with choreographer Dominique Duszynski in the productions `Sous Les Ponts` (2010), `Sotto Voces` (2011), `Walkabout` (2014) and together they created the duet `Riff` (2012-2015), which has been performed in France, Belgium and Brazil.
In 2021, Zoi collaborated with Jacob Jonas The Company in Los Angeles, where she created the original choreography ‘Gathering’.The piece is part of a short film that was produced and premiered on Films.Dance, one of the most ambitious international dance film projects ever undertaken. there were 300 artists from 55 cities in 25 countries who participated in this project during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, Zoi created and performed her own productions `Mr Gingerbread Man` (2012/2018), `9 NiNe` (2014), `Chapter I` (2015), `(-)US` (2019), `We Find Each Other in the Plenum` (2018) in Belgium, Greece and Austria.
Her dance duet `We Find Each Other in the Plenum` has been selected to be presented in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreographic Competition where it was one of the finalists and after an online voting the piece was first in audience`s preference.
She studied with a full scholarship in the Professional Dance School `Niki Kontaksaki – Nikoletta Bakali` in Athens (2007-2010). After her graduation she traveled to Belgium where she lives till today.

Giouli Banoussi

In 2016 she started studying at the Rallou-Manou professional dance school. In 2018 she graduated and at the same time participated in the performance “The missing Village” of the group Mikri Myia at the Kivotos theater. The following year, she participated in the JV2 program in London, as one the selections of Jasmin Vardimon and completed it in 2020.Finally until today she is a member of a dance-theater group which performs the “Those who walk in the clouds” by Natasa Papamichael, at the Olvio Theater.

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Contemporary dance masterclass, from 4 elements – Claudio Scalia

Contemporary Dance Masterclass

My class is based on the development of communicative skills.
A new inner journey among senses and harmony through 4 elements. The language of the body can express any and every feeling, the body becomes the fire, water, air, earth. A technical and physical approach jam-packed with improvisation and set material.
These tools are designed to develop clarity of mind to connect with the body in a more sensitive way.
Be yourself and give yourself!

Ages: 15+
Level: Professional and non-professional dancers

Photo credit: Eros Brancaleon

Claudio Scalia

Claudio Scalia was born in Catania.
He deepened his studies by traveling in Italy and abroad, coming into contact with different artistic realities. From 2019, he directs the “ocram dance movement company”. For ocram he created Africa in 2018, H(and)s and Placebo in 2021, Espresso in 2022.
From 2022 he is an associated artist for the three-year period 2022/24 of the Scenario Pubblico National Choreographic Dance Center. As a choreographer, he participated in the SzòlòDuo Festival in Budapest, the Black Box Festival in Plovdiv, the Florence Dance Festival, the Gdansk Festival Tanca in Gdańsk, Blois Danse Festival in Blois, SoloCoreografico in Frankfurt.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 is the choreographer for the Narnia Festival and the artistic director of the training project for young dancers “Evergreen”.
He took part in the 2020 edition of NuoveTraiettorie XL – training courses for young authors | Anticorpi XL Network action coordinated by the Cantieri Danza Association.

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Flowing cycles – Youri De gussem

Contemporary Dance Workshop

Through the workshop, we will seek physically to go towards a self-transcendence and find ways to recycle, renew our energy beyond exhaustion while remaining in motion.
We will look for a better understand of our mechanics, the physical laws that govern our movements, in search of a field of richer possibilities in our dance and out of our comfort zones. We can then, through different exercises and improvisations, overcome our limits, our personal boundaries and bring our physical and bodily skills to another level.
I am interested in seeing how far the human body can go without physical damage. It will be a physical, dynamic, and emotional experience that will connect the body and the mind.
During the workshop, we will also take in consideration the environment we will be in. As the workshop is happening in a beautiful outside space, we will take the time to adapt our movement and physicalities to this rich place under the trees.
It will give us an inspiration to improve and transform our way of moving and connect with the roots of the earth.

* Please bring your light sneakers for this workshop

Ages: 14+
Level: Professional and experienced non-professional dancers

Photo credit: Arnaud Beelen

Youri De gussem

After four years of dance studies at the Antwerp Conservatory and P.A.R.T.S. he has been focusing for several years on the development of his own artistic work and since 2017, with dancer and choreographer Julie Querre, he has founded the company ZEMIATA (www.compagnie-zemiata.com). Several of his creations took parts in Belgian and European dance festivals in Lisbon, Brussels, Antwerp, Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Arnhem, Grenoble, Geel and Corfu. He is now focusing on the creation of the duet Un2 and his solo Not So Close.
At the same time, he works for the choreographers Ricardo Ambrozio, for the piece Homo Urbanus, Jordi Lopez Vidal, for the street performance En Encounter and Adventure in planet Love, Sarah Baltzinger for the piece Fury, Marie Martinez for her piece N’ÊtreHumains, Caroline Cornelis/Company Nyash for the children performance Stoeland lately with the company Corps in Situ for the pieces Trip and Go!.

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Happy hour – Stella Zannou

Contemporary Dance Workshop

Although technical elements are going to be found in this contemporary class, my basic aim is to make dancers aware of the weight and rhythm of movement, as well as to dance without fear and hesitation by using their physicality and full energy rather than sticking in the “academic” correctness of the movement.
Believing that each dancer should discover and develop his/her own way of moving, I will try to encourage personal expression and personal differences to exist by using simple improvisation exercises. These are then going to be applied in given phrases, transforming in this way a “set combination” into a quite unique personal movement material.
At the same time, this class will be a very strengthening training. Influences are found from different dance techniques as well as from martial arts. Floor work is also very important, since I find it is the base for understanding fundamental movement qualities.
Many acrobatics and handstands are found but without being the main goal of the class. The focus is on the safety of the body and flow of movement.
In general, this class is most often considered to be a very joyful and challenging class attracting dancers who love the physicality of dancing.

Ages: 17+
Level: Professional, dance students and experienced non-professional dancers

Photo credit: James Rea, Manuel Meza, Walter Bickmann, Dimitris Parthimos

 

 

Stella Zannou

Stella was born in Athens and has studied dance in London College of Dance, London Studio Centre, The American College of Greece, and the Greek State School of Dance. After choreographιng and dancing for Prosxima dance company, Stella formed “Smack Dance Company” in Greece and currently is living in Berlin, working as a freelance dancer, teacher, and choreographer.
As a dancer she has worked with Christopher Roman, Johannes Wieland /State theater of Kassel, Walter Bickmann, Maya Caroll/Lipsker, Alexander Carrillo, Clint Lutes, Xaris Mandafounis, Thomas Mettler, Richard Siegal, Michael Klein, Nana Vachla, Editta Braun, Yannis Antoniou, Ioanna Parali, H. Andahopoulou, etc.
As a choreographer she has created work for Vienna Opera house, Staatstheater Kassel, S.E.A.D., Sozo visions in motion, Anton Bruckner University, Iwanson International dance school, Danceworks, etc.
She is teaching for Staatstheater Braunschweig/Kassel, S.E.A.D.- Salzburg, cie Toula Limnaios, B12, Proda – Oslo, Nachschub – Basel, Potsdamer Tanztage, Bruckner University, University of dance and music in Cologne, Hollins University, Iwanson International dance school, American College of Greece, One small step festival, Αkropoditi international dance festival, etc.
She has won the price of the audience for the duet “We like men strong cause they last longer”, in Budapest “Solo and Duo Dance Festival”, in 2003 (Choreographed by Stella Zannou for Prosxima Dance Company) and was voted as “Dancer of the year” for the Ballet Tanz magazine by Katja Werner 2003 and from Arnd Wesemann in 2010.

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Shifting space – Fabian Wixe

Contemporary Dance Workshop

The class will be a practice based around Flying Low (David Zambrano’s technique), going in and out of the ground, passing through yourself and the others in the room. We will also explore flow in relation to the group, and how to carry and recycle the energy of the group in movement and stillness.
Throughout the work we will talk with our bodies, encouraging this communication in order to help ourselves resolve problems as, or preferably before they arise. Move with your whole body, including your problems, doubts and limits, always pushing towards the edges as we aim to go full with a body that is ready to respond with or without preparation, when and how you need it.
Finally, we will work with a given phrase and exercises specific to this work, adding to it each day, increasing the speed and the complexity of the body, while calming the mind in order to keep up.
Prepare to sweat, to keep working when you’re tired (smile to the pain), and to enjoy!!

Ages: 15+
Level: Professional and experienced non-professional dancers

Photo credit: Dimitris Parthimos, Gilles Aguilar

Fabian Wixe

Swedish born, Fabian trained as a circus performer in London at the Circus Space (2004-2006), then continued his studies at Le Lido in Toulouse (2006-2008), specializing in Chinese Pole.
After graduating he joined French circus company ’Collectif AOC’ (2009-2015) for several productions (’Autochtone’, ’Un Dernier Pour la Route’, ’les Vadrouilles’.)
In 2010 he began working with international theatre company OBRA, with who he is now a core member, and created and toured ‘Gaudete’. Their next production ’IBIDEM’ is in the making.
2011 he started ’Project i19’ together with dancer Marie Wårell, and toured their performance ’layers’ internationally (2013-2014). Their second production ’Birds (come back to bones) premiered April 2018.
Fabian has worked extensively across Europe and the world as both solo performer and teacher. His current pedagogy is focused on floorwork and Flying Low, as well as developing the practice of OBRA theatre Co.

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Mind your move – Zoi Efstathiou

Contemporary Dance Workshop

The workshop consists of a series of exercises which prepare the body to learn a movement phrase. The workshop focuses on the differentiation of dynamics and simultaneous alternations of qualities. It focuses on the isolation of different parts of the body through simple exercises which are characterized by sharp changes of directions. During the workshop the use of voice and intensive moving is suggested, as well as the use of different axes of the body and space.

Ages: 15+
Levels: Professionals and experienced non-professional dancers or advanced students

Photo credit:

Zoi Efstathiou

Zoi Efstathiou is born in Greece. Since 2016 she has collaborated with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker as a dancer in Belgium.
In 2021, Zoi collaborated with Jacob Jonas The Company in Los Angeles, where she created the original choreography ‘Gathering’. The piece is part of a short film that was produced and premiered on Films.Dance, one of the most ambitious international dance film projects ever undertaken. There were 300 artists from 55 cities in 25 countries who participated in this project during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Between 2013 and 2016 she performed with Michèle Noiret’s production ‘Hors–Champ’. Between 2010 and 2015 she collaborated with choreographer Dominique Duszynski in the productions `Sous Les Ponts` (2010), `Sotto Voces` (2011), `Walkabout` (2014) and together they created the duet `Riff` (2012-2015), which has been performed in France, Belgium and Brazil.
Meanwhile, Zoi created and performed her own productions `Mr Gingerbread Man` (2012/2018), `9 NiNe` (2014), `Chapter I` (2015), `(-)US` (2019), `We Find Each Other in the Plenum` (2021) in Belgium, Greece and Austria. Her dance duet `We Find Each Other in the Plenum` has been selected to be presented in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreographic Competition where it was one of the finalists and after an online voting the piece was first in audience’s preference.
She studied with a full scholarship in the Professional Dance School `Niki Kontaxaki – Nikoletta Bakali` in Athens (2007-2010).
Zoi is also a Psychologist (BA).

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Floating – Vittoria Franchina and Giovanni Leone

Italy

Our brain is loaded daily with 34 gigabytes of content, which is the equivalent to around 100,000 words.

One of the main characteristics of the digital era we live in is the fact that our senses are constantly stimulated; the Internet gives us simple, free and unlimited access to any information, making us always ask for more. We spend large amounts of time searching and collecting data that eventually we won’t be able to handle. This problem is known as “information overload” and it occurs when our attention is continually hampered and interrupted as we have to deal with an excessive quantity of facts; this may lead us to the impossibility of separating what is valuable from what is worthless.
The mind goes blank and disconnects from reality, it starts to flow freely as water through unknown times and places. It gets lost in a stream of words and images that manipulates our attention and inhibits our ability to think and feel.

Is it possible to bring our brain and life back under control? Or are we destined to be overwhelmed by this situation?

Choreography & dance: Vittoria Franchina, Giovanni Leone
Production: DANCEHAUS più
Managing: Giulia Menti
Music: Aurora – Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mars-Alex Mein Smith

Duration: 22 min.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/559619411

14/05/2021 Festival DanzaTTack – Tenerife
19/06/2021 Castello di Romeo – Montecchio – Vicenza
20/06/2021 Fuori Formato Festival – Genova
25/06/2021 RIDCC – Rotterdam
7/07/2021 Florence Dance Festival – Florence
30/07/2021 – Dance Days Chania
27/10/2021 – Festival ZAWIROWANIA – Warsaw
30/10/2021 – Festival MASDANZA Italia – Gran Canaria
14/11/2021 – Festival Lasciateci sognare – Padova

With the support of

VITTORIA FRANCHINA

Born in Milan in 1994, she trained professionally at the Susanna Beltrami / Dancehaus Academy. She danced in productions by Susanna Beltrami, Matteo Bittante, Virginia Spallarossa and Diego Tortelli. She is currently a dancer with the Déjà Donné Company and collaborates with the National Dance Foundation / Aterballetto.

GIOVANNI LEONE

Born in Borgosesia in 1995, he trained as a dancer at the Susanna Beltrami / Dancehaus academy in the three-year period 2015-2018. He is an interpreter for Esklan Art’s Factory by Erika Silgoner, Mk by Michele di Stefano and for the company Déjà Donné. He has also worked with various choreographers, including Ariella Vidach, Laura Guidetti (Sanpapiè Company), Matteo Bittante and Diego Tortelli.