NAPOLI SILENT DANCE / Zitti Zitti, dancing in silence at dawn on the Naples waterfront

At sunrise on Sunday, April 28, 6 a.m., “Napoli Silent Dance / Zitti Zitti” will take place at Rotonda Diaz in Naples, a performance-event that opens the celebration of the International Day of Dance, established by UNESCO in 1982 for April 29 each year.

Naples Silent Dance involves choreographers, dancers and audience in an unpredictable silent dance on the Naples waterfront, listening to music played or selected in real time through headphones.

Organized and funded by the City of Naples as part of the “Naples City of Music” project, the unmissable happening is conceived and directed by Gabriella Stazio, an award-winning choreographer with her Compagnia Movimento Danza, and will feature more than 20 choreographers and performers from the Italian contemporary dance scene.
Music and DJ set by Francesco Giangrande, sound engineer Alessandro Messina.

With this absolute premiere, Gabriella Stazio once again returns to propose the anthropological sense of dance in which performers, spectators and choreographers are always the same person. And the person can be anyone.

The event is free and open to all.
Only requirement: to be of legal age.

Reservations are required.

To book, you must send an e-mail to promozione@movimentodanza.org and info@movimentodanza.org
with the subject line “Napoli Silent Dance” and the names of those booked, attaching to the email the photo and video release (click here to download the release form) filled out and signed by each of the participants.

Reservations will close at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 24.

To participate in the event, you must present photo ID.
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Imagine a silent dance, on the Naples waterfront, as dawn breaks over the waves.
Imagine the bodies of dancers, choreographers and spectators mingling together, listening to live music on headphones.
Imagine the enchantment, energy and joy of an extraordinary event.
For those who will want to dance in a unique atmosphere.
For those who will just want to watch.
For those who will want to be amazed.

Gabriella Stazio

NAPOLI SILENT DANCE / Zitti Zitti

Absolute Premiere for Giornata Mondiale della Danza 2024 – 21st Edition
concept, direction, choreography Gabriella Stazio
with Compagnia Movimento Danza and more than 20 choreographers and performers from the Italian contemporary dance scene: Ahmed, Floriana Apreda, Laura Calemma, Maria Carra, Marco Casagrande, Federico Contella, Valeria D’Antonio, Sonia Di Gennaro, Rosaria Di Maro, Francesca Gifuni, Nicolò Giorgini, Eleonora Greco, Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Leopoldo Guadagno, Sara Lupoli, Lidia Marinaro, Marco Munno, Martina Nappi, Ester Palmieri, Christian Pellino, Domenico Piscopo, Lucio Pomice, Federica Renzullo, Paolo Rosini, Francesco Russo, Andrea Russo, Gabriella Stazio, Antonello Tudisco 
music and dj set Francesco Giangrande
sound engineer Alessandro Messina

“This is a site-specific event inspired by the Silent Party phenomenon, which began a few years ago and has been declined over time in various ways,” explains Gabriella Stazio. “The proposed concept is that of a performance somewhere between the silent dance and the silent concert: one dances together with dancers and choreographers, listening in headphones to music played in real time by musicians. Placing the performance-event in urban contexts allows an unconventional enjoyment of art and cities, without creating any disturbance to other people and with full respect for structures and works. Everything is strictly free and zero impact. In fact, the event makes no use of lights as it will take place waiting for dawn with natural light, and music will be played only through headphones to limit the acoustic impact.”

Movimento Danza, accredited by the Ministry of Culture as a “National Dance Promotion Body,” was the first to introduce the UNESCO International Dance Day celebrations in Italy since 2002. Under the title “Giornata Mondiale della Danza”, in more than 20 editions of the event, the Movimento Danza center has organized more than 700 classes for about 14,500 participants from all over Italy, 92 public meetings, 120 performances and contests, and 18 exhibitions, art installations and video dance screenings.