- ART DIRECTORS -

Two dancers in the rehearsal studio in black and white, one with a hand to his chin

- Marco Laudani -

Marco Laudani - Ocram - Founder

Marco Laudani was born in Catania in 1988. Since 2013 he has been the artistic director of the ocram dance movement company, a company associated with Scenario Pubblico Centro di Rilevante Interesse per la Danza, and since 2026 he has been co-director of the compagniazappalàdanza2.

He has created works for the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, the Conservatório Internacional de Ballet e Dança Annarella Sanchez (Leiria, Portugal), CZD2, KAOS Balletto in Florence and has been a guest teacher at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School.

In 2017 he was invited to the Wicked Weekend COMMA for the master choreography held at CODARTS (Rotterdam).

In 2019 he graduated in political science and international relations, and in the same year he was awarded the choreography prize at the Certamen Coreografico distrito de Tetuan (Madrid).

Since 2022, he has been an associate choreographer at Scenario Pubblico, a dance center of relevance to the public. Since that same year, he has been a guest performer at the YGP event, including performances in Australia, Indonesia, and Japan.

- Claudio Scalia -

Claudio Scalia - Ocram Art Director

Claudio Scalia (Catania, 1992) is co-director of the Ocram Dance Movement company. Since 2022, he has been an associate artist at the Centro di Rilevante Interesse per la Danza Scenario Pubblico and since 2026, he has been the resident choreographer of the compagniazappalàdanza2 company.

His choreographic works have been hosted in Italy and abroad: SzòlòDuo Festival in Budapest, Black Box Festival in Plovdiv, Florence Dance Festival, Gdansk Festival Tanca in Gdansk, Blois Danse Festival in Blois, Akropoditi Dance Fest in Syros, Lucky Trimmer in Berlin and Frankfurt, FIDCMX in Mexico City.

In 2022, he created Trittongo for Compagniazappalàdanza2. He participated in the 2020 edition of Nuove Traiettorie XL – training courses for young authors | Network Anticorpi XL initiative coordinated by the Cantieri Danza Association.

In 2024 he won the SIAE tender supported by the MIC as part of the “Per Chi Crea” program with the Finger food project.

In 2025 he created Lif in collaboration with the dancers of CZD2, a project selected for the NID Platform – Open Studios section and finalist of the Twain_direzioniAltre Prize.