Sognare - Fase RAM (2026)

Dancer in a blue polka-dot suit beside a lit structure

Credits

Concept, design and direction by: Damiano Scavo | Performers: Rachele Pascale and Damiano Scavo | Music by: Stefano Simmaco and Damiano Scavo, Benjamin Britten | Dramaturgy: Sergio Campisi and Damiano Scavo | Costume and fabric production: Gabriella Palomba | Video: Eros Brancaleon | With the support of: MEV (Cultural Center) | Production: Scenario Pubblico in collaboration with ocram dance movement

Project selected for the NID Platform 2026.

Synopsis

“I firmly believe in the future reconciliation of these two states, apparently so contradictory, which are dream and reality, in a kind of absolute reality, of surreality, if one may say so.” (André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism.)

“Dreaming – RAM Phase” is a metaphor for the ability of sleep to process the experiences we accumulate during the day.

It is an immersion in a dream world featuring two entities, the sleeper and the echo of his sleep, who influence each other through a waltz of movements and a sharing of thoughts and emotions, symbols of a profound intimacy.

The creative research takes inspiration from Max Ernst's surrealist vision based on the generation of hypnagogic images.

What happens when imagination and sleep's ability to process experiences merge? A labyrinth of emotions, experiences, and memories takes shape, composing, outside of any conventional framework, an unpredictable dimension with a cartoonish aesthetic.

“Dreaming – RAM Phase” is an open book with blank pages, a story written with the ink of fantasy, whose meaning is not based on logic but on the drive of desires and fears that permeate every layer of thought.

Scheduled Events

2 September 2026

“NID Platform open studios section”, Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno (TO)

Event History

July 4, 2026_studio
“Narãnji Dance Festival”, Palazzo Beneventano, Lentini (SR) 
 
June 30, 2026_studio

Sharing Mosaico Danza Living Lab, Turin

June 22-28, 2026_studio

CROSS Project / CROSS Residence, an artistic residency program dedicated to contemporary performance practices