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Scenario Pubblico was set up in 2002 in Catania’s old town centre. The location is accessible from the pedestrian street which leads to the Massimo Bellini theatre. Scenario Pubblico focuses mainly on contemporary dance, and runs production, programming, hospitality, training and audience development programmes, making it a true choreographic hub.
Scenario Pubblico is the home of Compagnia Zappalà Danza, providing it with an ideal creative context. It has close links with the activities which make Scenario Pubblico a strategic productive partner and the main promoter of the Company’s activities in the region. This is where all new productions are created, and there are often premieres.
Scenario Pubblico also supports research and helps foster the talent of young choreographers and emerging companies, supporting Sicilian artists in particular. Over the last few years, we have collaborated extensively with the Loris Petrillo Dance Company, Salvo Romania and Laura Odierna’s Megakless company, and Giovanna Velardi’s IBI company.
The constant programming activity has made it possible to train dance audiences: the summer and winter shows have hosted some of the most important Italian and European companies, both established and emerging, bringing Sicilian audiences an artistic discipline which had previously been almost completely absent.
Young dancers from all over the world take part in the modern specialisation course, which has been run in collaboration with Compagnia Zappalà Danza for almost 10 years. Every year, the students work on techniques and languages, while carrying out personal research in parallel. At the culmination of this research, some of them go on to stage their first choreographic works. In the end-of-course show, which is usually held at the end of Scenario Pubblico’s winter season, the group puts on performances of Compagnia Zappalà Danza’s repertoire pieces as well as hosting commissioned pieces.
Scenario Pubblico popularises dances here through basic courses aimed at very young dancers and amateurs, while at the end of the Sunday replica, the audience is invited to participate in meetings with the choreographers. Conferences and seminars are held every year, and in these, contemporary dance is linked with a wide range of social themes.
Contemporary dance may be the focus of the activities, but partnerships and arrangements with public and private bodies also play an important role, making Scenario Pubblico a stage for other performance arts, particularly theatre and music.
SCENARIO PUBBLICO
international choreographic centre sicily
international choreographic centre sicily
via teatro massimo, 16 - 95131 Catania
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