Márcio K. Canabarro & Savio Debernardis

15/01 — 15/04/2026

Fellowship

Márcio K. Canabarro is a visually impaired professional dancemaker and choreographer, and Savio Debernardis is a fully sighted film director and multimedia artist. Through a hybrid methodology of literary autofiction, dance improvisation, painting and multimedia exploration, they are constructing a speculative performance language that can be heard, read, and partially glimpsed. Their project The Third Space is a collaborative study that resists visual supremacy in favor of multisensory dramaturgy.

Inspired by the concept of Third Lansdscape, theorised by French Landscape Architect, Theorist and Writer Gilles Clément, they understand neglected land not as waste, but as potential: not fixed but dynamic, unstable, and necessary. Their Third Space echoes the Third Landscape — a zone of radical openness, vulnerable to erasure but rich with invention. At Scuola Piccola Zattere, they will explore how moments of aesthetic and perceptual disruption — of vision, of narrative, of orientation — might become fertile ground for new forms of encounter. If every spatial organization creates its own neglected zone, they ask what forms of care, curiosity, or choreography might reanimate it? They move with the ethics of the planetary citizen, crafting temporary choreographies not from mastery, but from porousness, from the capacity to be moved by what is usually left unseen.

Savio Debernardis is a film director and multimedia artist based in Berlin. He holds a bachelor degree in History of Art and Archeology from the University of the Sorbonne Paris-IV, a BA and MA in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC), and a Master’s in Film Directing from the Babelsberg Film University KONRAD WOLF. His artistic research focused on the translation of relational aesthetics and conceptual practices into performance, film, drawing, and painting. His films and multimedia works have been shown in major cities around the world, including Berlin, Paris, Los Angeles, and Madrid, and have been featured in numerous international film festivals.

Márcio K. Canabarro is a dancer and choreographer with a BA in Social Communication, a
Performing Major from SEAD, and certification as an Embodied Myoreflex Therapy Practitioner. His work focuses on the socio-emotional and cultural implications of accessibility—specifically, around biases on vision and how it shapes intimacy, social-participation and cultural contributions of blind and visually impaired individuals. Márcio collaborates with film director and artist Savio Debernardis on Rehearsal Series, and currently they are developing The Third Space a research that explores auto-fiction, spatio-temporal intersections of memory and art fragmentation as a means of collaboration and access articulation. Márcio also works as a freelance dancer with Hodworks (HU), CRANKY BODIES/a company (DE), and Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE). In the past, he has collaborated with Benoît Lachambre, Sindri Runudde, Mark Tompkins, Keith Hennessy, and others.