Scenario Pubblico starts its activities in 2002. Located near the historic center of Catania, accessible from the pedestrian street that leads to the Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini, the city’s Opera House, Roberto Zappalà is the creator and promoter of its recovery.

A structure from the early 1900s purchased thanks to the intervention of private individuals and renovated with European funds, designed for contemporary dance, a rare example in Italy of a European choreographic center that soon became a reference point for dance in Central -Southern Italy.

The structure is divided into a state of the art black box theater with 150 seats, two large rehearsal rooms, a laboratory equipped for scenography and videodance, a bar / restaurant, offices, a video archive and a guesthouse. The main focus is placed on contemporary dance and within it activities of production, programming, hospitality, training and dissemination are developed.

 

Numerous the artists and companies hosted since 2002:

Ariella Vidach/AIEP Avventure in Elicottero Prodotte, Artemis/Monica Casadei, ALDES/Roberto Castello, Vito Alfarano, Anoukvandijk dc (NL), Area Strategica/Orazio Caiti, Ars movendi, Aterballetto/Fondazione Nazionale della Danza , Balletto di Spoleto, Balletto di Vicenza, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Federico Baronello, Gaetano Battezzato – Teatri del Vento (FR), Marta Bellu, Daniela Bendini, Cesare Benedetti, Amos Ben-Tal/ OFFprojects (IL/NL), Audrey Bergeron (CDN), Claudio Bernardo (BE), Philippe Blanchard (SE), Borderline Danza, Anna Bussey (CDN), Emilio Calcagno – Cie ECO Emilio Calcagno (F), Samir Calixto/Korzo [BR/NL], Samuele Cardini, Cie.As Palavras (BE), Cie.Linga (CH), Cie.Matteo Moles/Tamat asbl (I/B), Cie.Philippe Saire (CH), Emanuele Coco, Francesco Colaleo, Cocoondance (D), Collettivo Cinetico/Francesca Pennini, Collettivo MoDem, Collettivo QBR / Quei Bravi Ragazzi [ES|FR|IT], Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, Compagnia Simona Bertozzi, Compagnia Simona Bucci, Compagnie El Contrabando (E/CH), Compagnia Enzo Cosimi, Compagnie Francoise Murcia (F), Companie greffe/Cindy Van Acker (CH), Conpagnie Lanabel/Annabelle Bonnéry (F), Compagnie MF (I/F), Compagnia Loris Petrillo, Compagnia Petranuradanza, Cie Sam-Hester (CH), Compagnia Tardito Rendina, Cie.Twain, Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Compagnie Thor (B), Compagnia Giovanna Velardi, Compagnia Versiliadanza, Compagnia Zappalà Danza, Company Blu/Alessandro Certini, Corte Sconta, CZD 2 giovane compagnia zappalà danza , Dancehauspiù, Drift (CH), Elsinor, Giannalberto De Filippis, Maud De la Purification [F], Cie.MEAARI (F), Michèle Anne De Mey/Charleroi/Danses (B), Dancehauspiù, Deja Donné, Stellario Di Blasi, Annalisa Di Lanno, DNA/Elisa Pagani, DOT504 (CS), Jae Duk Kim (KR), Donata D’Urso (I/F), Joeri Dubbe (NL), Alain El Sakhawi [ET|F], Emotion gruppo phoenix, Ersilia Danza, E7KA Eva Klimackova (CZ), Fattoria Vittadini, Fabrizio Favale, Ferenc Feher (H), Foowa d’Immobilité (CH), Maxime Freixas (F), Franceschini // Droste & Co. [DE], Chiara Frigo, Henrique Furtado Vieria [PT], GN|MC Guy Nader /Maria Campos (E), Andrea Gallo Rosso/Morse, Emanuel Gat (IL), Massimo Gerardi (D), Marina Giovannini, Yasmeen Godder (IL), Christian Graupner [D], Emio Greco|PC (NL), Gruppo Nanou, Heller/Pezzani, Humanhood (GB), I Nuovi Scalzi, Irish Modern Dance Theatre/John Scott (IRL), Natalia Iwaniec (PL), Naturalis Labor, Augusto Jaramillo Pineda (CO/D), Wolf Ka (D), Suzanne Kempster (D), Dan Kinzelman [USA], Sweeboon Kuik (SGP), Laccioland, Le Supplici, Helge Letonja [DE], Matteo Levaggi, Salvo Lombardo/Chiasma, Nancy Lopez Luna Cano (MEX), Gabriella Maiorino (I/NL), Gregory Maqoma [ZA], Seifeddine Manai (MA), Marcat Dance / Mario Bermudez Gil (E), MDA produzioni danza, mk / Michele Di Stefano, Piergiorgio Milano, Simona Miraglia, Gioia Maria Morisco, Motomimetico, Elia Mrak (USA), Michal Mualem (I/IL), Rebecca Murgi, Giuseppe Muscarello, C.Enrico Musmeci, Shumpei Nemoto (J), Nexus/Simona Bertozzi, Daniele Ninarello, Laura Odierna, Of curious nature (D), Riccardo Olivier, Occhisulmondo, Silvia Oteri, Moritz Ostrushnjak (D), Daniela Paci (L’artimista), Francesca Penzo, Manfredi Perego, Ivan Perez/Korzo (E/NL), Phe_to, CCNR Yuval Pick (F/IL), Ming Poon [SGP/DE], QBR Quei Bravi Ragazzi, Resodancer Company [F], Fernando Roldan Ferrer [E], Ilenia Romano | Ivano La Rosa, Salvatore Romania, Rootlessroot (CS/GR), Giorgio Rossi, Claudia Rossi Valli, Giovanni Scarcella [I/B], Cinzia Scordia, Ambra Senatore (I/F), Alessandro Sollima , Davide Sportelli, Sosta Palmizi, Spellbound Contemporary Ballet | Mauro Astolfi, steptext dance project (D), Stifani Brothers, Tanz company Gervasi (A), Chiara Taviani, The Mammut Project [IT/NL], Teatro Koros/Massimo Morricone, T.H.E Dance Company (SGP), Milan Tomášik & Co [SL], Taneli Torma (SF), Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus (B), Unity in Diversity/ Hip Hop Dance Company, Perrine Valli (CH), Davide Valrosso, Vidavé Crafts, Mike Winter (GB), Valeria Zampardi, Zerogrammi, ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble [M], Onofrio Zummo