Valeria Apicella investigates bodily experience as a process of embodiment of experience. Her performative, visual and sound research is an “embodiment” of the sensory fabric and memory. It develops between choreographic works, site-specific performances, participatory actions and installations, in theaters, museums and unconventional spaces. It explores the poetics of the present as a political and ecological act: a necessary reflection on the values of existence. After 20 years working in France with international companies, he founded and runs his own studio in Naples, puntozerovaleriaapicella, an independent space dedicated to exchanges and processes of creation and transmission with local and international artists.
Trained in classical and contemporary dance, and butoh dance with Masaki Iwana. From 2000 to 2010 she is in the company Habillé d’Eau, participating in 2005 with the show Dog Boy at the Venice Biennale. In collaboration with Maria Paola Zedda he creates the performance H10 H11 Birthday Party, receiving special mention at the 2008 Equilibrio Prize. At the 2011 Istantanee Festival, Andreana Notaro participates in collaboration with Davide Rovito and Luca Servino in the performance Lineatempia. After a long break, she creates in 2019 the performance Geflügelte Rehe in collaboration with Maria Paola Zedda, Davide Rovito, Luca Servino and Gianni Staropoli (Körper production).
A dancer, choreographer and Ashtanga Yoga teacher, Silvia Di Rienzo lives and works in France. She has practiced various contemporary dance techniques, improvisation, instant composition and clowning. A performer of numerous experimental choreographic and theatrical performances and forms, she founded in 2012 with Stefania Branetti the C&C company that creates performances dedicated to natural spaces, the street and other public places. Since 2015, she has co-founded Yoga Shala Ananda Kala in Montreuil, near Paris. Continuing to study with her teachers, she is interested in therapeutic yoga, yogic breathing, Ayurveda and constructive rest.
Slovenian artist DISCOllective artistically explores what else dance, choreography, improvisation, practice, teaching, and playfulness can be, taking on various roles as dancer, choreographer, clown, writer, teacher, producer, publisher, or just plain citizen, in formats such as games, practice, performance, installations, publications, audio and video works, and whatnot. He recently received the Ksenija Hribar award in Slovenia for original approach and practice in the field of contemporary dance. In Italy DISCOllettivo collaborates with Valeria Apicella, Elena Paola Dragonetti, Daniele Brenca, Piero Leccese, Danilo Blaquier, Chiara Orefice, Nhandan Chirco, Valerio Cassa and others, in Cilento, Naples, Cesena, Florence.
Christian Costa’s multidisciplinary work focuses on territories, communities and social groups, conceiving and organizing relational and long-lasting public art projects that allow him to return over time to places in search of their genius loci and to create real contacts with the people he encounters. Among contemporary languages he favors installation, photography, video and performance, paying great attention to the sound element. In 2022 and 2023 he represented Poland in the social theater review Quartieri di Vita, working together with Antonio Nardelli with ten young people from the Castel Volturno area from four different continents.
Chiara Orefice is a dancer, multidisciplinary performer and author of various choreographic projects. Her research focuses on the performative act as a device of interaction between body, sound and space, with particular attention to the relationship between memory and imagination. She is dedicated to instant composition and the study of voice and song, collaborating with various musicians and creating extemporaneous performances and site-specific projects in unconventional spaces. Her latest works include: Sinfonica: 8, site specific performance in Stromboli with composer Stefano Costanzo (2022) ; Una Storia per Euridice, directed by Luisa Guarro, winner of the ‘Director with A’ Award (2023).
A movement researcher in the artistic and therapeutic fields, Alessandra Cozzolino studied contemporary dance, butoh dance, improvisation, contact and choreographic composition with many artists including Carolyn Carlson, Raffaella Giordano, Masaki Iwana. She has worked as a dancer with Ballet 90 company, La Vertigine and DanzaFlux. She is the author of several performance projects presented in urban and theatrical contexts in Italy and has taught contemporary dance in several dance schools in Naples. With a degree in physical therapy, she currently attends the Aemo school of osteopathy and Cinzia De Lorenzi’s “Rhizoma” somatic movement training.
