The Long Summer Day
Credits
Co-Directors: Gianluca Vincentini & Fabiano Culora
Performers: Naomi Chockler, Michelle Scappa, William James (JJ), Allegra Vistalli
Poet: Andrew McMillan
Costume Design: Robin Soutar
Music: Otis Jones
Light Design: Luke Haywood
Producer: Callum Holt
Description
Here there is no need for armour
There is only the birthright to rest and play
Sense into relationship
Experience stories
Feel present and welcome.
Something Not Right
Credits
Concept, Choreography: Lian Guodong, Lei Yan (L-Square Performance)
With: Pierandrea Rosato, Michelle Scappa and performers of L-Square Performance
Sound Design: Katatonic Silentio
Executive Producer: Fabrizio Massini
Co-production: Fabbrica Europa, L-Square Performance
Description
Starting from everyday lived experience, Something not right questions what is “right” [...] exploring what can be labeled as “wrong” across different contexts.
Does opposing two “correct” points of view result in something “incorrect”? [...]. Can multiple “wrong” bodies create a “right” image?
Something that “is not right” exists in a liminal, undefined region.
HellO°
Credits
Project and Realization: Kinkaleri / Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, Gina Monaco
With: Michelle Scappa
Production: Kinkaleri / KLm – 2022/2023
With the Support of: Regione Toscana, MiBACT – Settore Spettacolo
Description
The body [...] is the only reference that accompanies every human relationship [...] from birth to dissolution.
In this historical period [...] an idea of substitution of the living experience was already emerging. We have therefore focused on care and protection of this body [...].
HellO° is an offshoot of OtellO [...] from William Shakespeare [...]
HellO° is the body of the tragedy [...] exposed until it loses consciousness.
Inlet
Credits
Concept / Choreography / Visual Art: Saeed Hani
Dancers: Ana F. Melero, Francesco Ferrari, Michelle Scappa
Costume Design: Carolin Schäfer
Light Design: Marc Thein
Music: Jakob Schumo
Production: Hani Dance Company
Description
INLET explores the significance of walls and borders throughout history, examining their role as boundaries, fortresses, and barriers that influence human interactions and perceptions. Inspired by the legend of Romulus and Remus, where a city wall holds deep symbolic meaning, the piece raises thought-provoking questions about the relevance of walls in today’s world.
Through raw movement and compelling visuals, the dancers embody themes of separation, confinement, and the longing for freedom. Without distraction, their bodies convey a universal truth that resonates deeply in the present. INLET is more than a performance; it is an immersive experience, a call to reflect, to feel, and to break free.
Paradiso
Credits
Project: gruppo nanou, Alfredo Pirri, Bruno Dorella
Choreography: Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci
With: Carolina Amoretti, Marina Bertoni, Vera Borghini, Rhuena Bracci, Francesca Dibiase, Andrea Dionisi, Agnese Gabrielli, Marco Maretti, Emanuel Santos, Sofia Pazzocco, Michelle Scappa
Production: Nanou Associazione Culturale, Ravenna Festival
Contribution: MIC, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Ravenna, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna
Description
Paradiso is a long duration performance by gruppo nanou, Alfredo Pirri and Bruno Dorella, inspired by Dante's third canticle. The space — mirrored surfaces, plexiglass domes, shifting light and sound — is a place to inhabit, open for at least three hours a day, with free access like a museum exhibition.
Eight dancers move through a choreography of visions and actions that compose and decompose in the moment, while the audience moves freely, chooses its own point of observation, builds its own path. Every Paradiso is different: a site of encounter, of spontaneous community, a unique and unrepeatable experience.
Shoes on
Credits
Choreography and Concept: Luna Cenere
Created With: Michelle Scappa and Davide Tagliavini
Performed By: Michelle Scappa and Vittorio Pagani
Music: Renato Grieco, New Order
Light Design: Loris Giancola
Technical Direction: Nicola Mancini
Production: Körper National Center of Dance Production
Description
Shoes on is an archive of gestures and movements [...] from ancestral forms to postures of athletics and dance. Only two pairs of shoes [...] become a further subject of the scene.
An investigation of the body [...] shows the potential of nudity [...] generating a need for grounding and a lightness in not taking things too seriously.
Inspired by surrealism and authors such as Ren Hang and Eveline Bencicova [...], Luna Cenere continues her research on body, posture, and gesture.
Landscapes made of bodies [...] reveal hidden meanings and the symbolic nature of being a body.
OtellO
