Africa (2019)

Ocram Produzioni - Africa - 2

Credits

Production: ocram dance movement in collaboration with Scenario Pubblico Center of Significant National Interest | Concept and Choreography: Claudio Scalia | Costume designer: Gabriella Palomba | Music: Armand Amar, Jaap Blonk and Yaron Engler | Text: Fabiana Radinieri | Dancers: 4 | Duration: 50 minutes

Synopsis

From his coming into the world he finds himself as a constituent part of his own world-environment, from where he gets sustenance, refuge, sacredness. It is in their primordial encounter that man/nature interweaving appears almost inseparable.

Nature molds the body, draws its shapes, creates its own rhythm. This is a continuous movement, the wind which moves the leaves of the trees, the water flowing on a riverbed, a flower blooming, clouds taking on strange shapes in the sky... our whole existence is permeated by its power.

A rhythm which is initially isolated but which then connects with some other familiar one. One feeds the other and gives life to a new dance. The bodies, together, become a beat that seduces, charms and then collides and meets again in the swirl of the rawest emotions.

It Is, thus, accomplished.

In this new balance, the two bodies give life to a strong and fulfilling relationship. They discover a new nature. Almost trying to dominate It, to exploit its sources, to transform its own landscapes.

Nature then chooses to make itself heard by breaking in with its incredible strength… Man is left with a helpless gaze only, but, at the same time, with the awareness of the evil that caused to nature, evil which devours the self too.

Event History

15 September 2021
“International Ballet Festival” Cortile Collegio Gesuiti, Noto (SR)
1 September 2021
“DanzArt Festival”, Ragusa Ibla (RG)
August 14, 2021
“MantovaDanza”, Mantua
9 July 2021
“Florence Dance Festival”, Florence
August 22, 2020
Piazza Brancati, Ispica (RG)
3 July 2020
“BlackBox Festival”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
On 17 January 2020
“Festival SzoloDuo”, Budapest, Hungary
November 29, 2019
Fascianella Auditorium, San Cataldo (CL)
October 31, 2019
Politeama Theatre, Caltagirone (CT)