Cocoon
Brian Scalini
Italy
Composer: Adam Sojka
choreography: Brian Scalini
performer: Fabienne Deesker
costume design: Christian Kern & Brian Scalini
About the CREATION
Our childhood shapes us into the human beings that we are today. Connecting with other people’s traumas inevitably affects us. Sharing the weight of their pain can lead us to blame them and ourselves as well. We create barriers to filter the outside world's pain and during this process, an internal fight is generated. A new beginning can be achieved when we stop blaming and instead we start caring. Embracing the trauma and facing it from a different perspective will make it disappear or simply change its form, leading us to a new life.
I am a freelance choreographer, dancer, and designer based in Dresden, Germany.
I studied for 10 years ballroom-dance before starting my professional training in ballet and contemporary dance in "Dance Studio Faenza", Italian Academy directed by Luna Ronchi (F.I.S.T.D. Dipl. Cecchetti Faculty, London). During this period I had the possibility to study and to have masterclasses with Ihsan Rustem, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Roberto Zamorano, Eduardo Zuniga, Macha Daudel.
From 2017 until 2020 I’m a dancer of the Tanzcompagnie “Landesbühnen Sachsen” directed by Carlos Matos in Dresden, Germany.
In parallel with dance, I finished in 2016 my studies and I got a Bachelor in Product Design at the University of Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”, which helped me to further develop my artistic vision/skills which I apply to my projects as a choreographer.
From 2020, I’m part of the Master Choreography at Palucca University of Dance Dresden.
Since 2018 I’m developing my own projects as a freelance choreographer, trying to combine my multidisciplinary background in dance and design.
In these two years I had the possibility as an emerging choreographer to be invited to different events such as Tanzwoche Dresden (Germany - 2018), TanzArt Galà Giessen (Germany - 2019), Certamen Internacional de Coreografia Burgos y Nueva York (Spain - 2019), Solo Tanz Theater Festival Stuttgart (Germany - 2020), Gdanski Festiwal Tanca - Solo Dance Contest (Poland - 2020), Istanbul Fringe Festival (Turkey - 2020), SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Frankfurt (Germany - 2020), MASDANZA (Canary Islands - 2020).
Brian Scalini
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