“A space where silence, listening, perception and gesture will be present in a unitary way in respect of individual differences.”
Roberto Zappalà
About him they wrote
With tenacity, lucidity, vision, and a constant desire to move forward, to find his own linguistic code, to perfect his poetics, to give a home to his dance ideas, naturally humanistic and philosophical - just as certain refined Sicilians are naturally humanistic and philosophical in thought and taste, still pregnant with the ancestral memories of the powerful civilizations that merged in that triangle of Mediterranean land.
Silvia PolettiDelTeatro
Everything on stage becomes body, action, sensation, it almost seems like being in front of a moving painting. The result is an instinctive and powerful dance, sensual and very physical, a carnal and at the same time delicate dance, vibrant with poetry and vivid suggestions.
Nicoletta SeverinoMade in Pompei
Roberto Zappalà is the artistic director and choreographer of Compagnia Zappalà Danza, which he founded in 1990 in Catania, Italy. Compagnia Zappalà DanzaCompagnia Zappalà Danza, which he founded in 1990 in Catania. Realizza solo per la propria compagnia oltre 85 creazioni mainly full-length, among these Après-midi d’un faune | Boléro | Le Sacre du Printemps (trilogia dell’estasi) che ha debuttato nel 2024 per la Fondazione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, coproduttore insieme a MilanOltre Festival e Teatro Massimo Bellini, Cultus co-produced by the Fondazione Luzzati/Teatro della Tosse (Genova) and the Teatro Comunale di Modena, Kristo coprodotto dal Teatro Stabile di Catania, Rifare Bach (2021) proposed in world premiere at the Campania Teatro Festival - and anticipated by the animated film La naturale bellezza del creato realizzato dal coreografo insieme a Michele Bernardi-, Panopticon-Teatro Igienico (2021), La Giara (2019), commissioned by the Teatro Regio di Torino, Liederduett (2018) co-produced with Bolzano Danza/Tanz Bozen, Instrument Jam (2017), I am Beautiful for the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara and Romeo e Giulietta 1.1 – la sfocatura dei corpi (2016).
His creations A.semu tutti devoti tutti? (2009, ripresa nel 2019) e La Nona-dal caos, il corpo (2015) received the Danza&Danza Award for Italian Production of the Year.
Complex projects have accompanied the creative path of the choreographer from Catania, from Re-mapping-sicilyRe-mapping-Sicily, an original reinterpretation of Sicily through his personal language, to Transiti Humanitatis with which he continues to narrate humanity through gestures and the body, their history, their transformation in time and space, or on the contrary, their immutable permanence.
Furthermore, there have been various collaborations with other companies, among these Balletto di Toscana, la Scuola di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Norrdans (S), ArtEZ Arnhem (NL), la Fondazione Theaterwerkplaats Generale Oost (NL), Goteborg Ballet/Opera di Goteborg (S).
In 2011 he created the choreography for the opening ceremony of the World Fencing Championships. In 2016 he curated the project Insieme - Urban Parade for Torinodanza and the Défilée of the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon.
He has collaborated with opera directors such as Federico Tiezzi, Daniele Abbado e Giorgio Barberio Corsetti ...and with artists from the international scene, among them Giovanni Sollima, Paolo Fresu, Fabio Vacchi, Puccio Castrogiovanni, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Luca Ballerini, Alfio Antico, Gianluigi Trovesi, Nello Toscano ...and others.
With Christian Graupner (Humatic, Berlin) he created the interactive installation MindBox, which won second prize at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Atlanta/USA 2011).
La Malcor D’ Edizioni ha pubblicato nel 2022 la II edizione del suo libro Omnia CorporaOmnia Corpora on the methodology of his work.
Roberto Zappalà is responsible for the recovery and conception of Scenario Pubblico in Catania, aperto nel 2002 quale primo esempio in Italia di centro coreografico internazionale e nominato nel 2022 National Center of Relevant Interest by the Ministry of Culture.
His choreographic style, after years of movement research with his dancers, is the language MoDem languageMoDem, which stands for Democratic Movement, which has its own well-defined and unique identity. Every year Roberto Zappalà selects a group of dancers from the MoDem Pro program who join CZD2 ...which today is a true breeding ground for the official company.
Among the various awards assigned, nel 2013 riceve il Premio dell’Associazione Nazionale Critici di Teatro, nel 2022 il Premio Hystrio ‘corpo a corpo’ e nel 2024 il Premio Internazionale alla Carriera Città di Foligno.
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