Sciame, by Enzo Cosimi is a choreography for 6 dancers. The scene is signed by Fabrizio Plessi, a visual artist of great international prestige.
The title wants to evoke the idea of unison, of a swarm in flight, of “energy discharges”, according to Cosimi’s words. The dance works in the direction of an energy that expresses the most violent and repressed components of interiority: like a dance by possession, trance. The visual structure of Plessi, an artist who works mainly through video, tends to be in tune with the choreographic dimension, in the elaborate shooting of “alchemical” elements, according to a concept that has been defined as hot technology. Plessi’s work in Sciame proceeds along two lines: pre-recorded materials and live shooting of the dance.
Enzo Cosimi, choreographer and dancer, founder of the Occhèsc dance group, studied classical ballet and Cunningham technique in New York, and attended Béjart's Mudra school.
In 1982 he began composing choreographies, and his debut, Calore, was hailed by critics as the first example of "new Italian dance". Through his subsequent works (Stato di Grazia, La fabbrica tenebrosa del Corpo, Acque), Cosimi developed a very personal style of composition: generally abstract, but with strong dramatic, expressive components, and with a taste for warm and energetic movement, very "Mediterranean". He collaborated on several occasions with the American dancer and choreographer O'Connor, alongside whom he created the choreography of his most recent show: Esercizi (May 1987). In the spring of 1987, Enzo Cosimi was a guest at the Dance Theater Workshop in New York.
Fabrizio Plessi, born in Reggio Emilia in 1940, attended the art high school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Since 1962 he has participated in the most important artistic events in Europe and the United States. Since 1968 he has created works on the constant theme of water, alternating installations with films, video-tapes with performances. In recent years he has intensified his research on the relationship between video and environment, quickly becoming one of the absolute protagonists of video-installations and technological sculpture. He lives and works in Venice, where he holds the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.
