INTRODUCTION

The project A futura memoria emerges from the artistic and relational experience of the Zerogrammi company, as the coherent outcome of a poetics that for years has intertwined choreographic creation with dialogue with communities. At the heart of the project lie themes of memory, roots, and the construction of shared meaning, developed through artistic practices capable of activating listening, proximity, and relationship.

Zerogrammi has always accompanied its creations with actions rooted in the territory, opening spaces for exchange and participation, and recognising the body as a living archive: a place where experiences, lived realities, and memories are deposited and can be reworked into narrative form. Within this perspective, dance becomes both a research tool and a universal language, capable of connecting individuals and diverse contexts.

The project unfolds through participatory, experiential pathways that weave together literary references, cultural contexts, and social environments, stimulating reflection on identity, belonging, and cohesion among individuals. Movement thus becomes a practice of personal and collective storytelling, through which stories, memories, and imaginaries can emerge and be transformed into a shared vocabulary.

FORMS AND MODALITIES

A futura memoria can take on different forms and durations depending on the number and profile of participants, as well as on the characteristics of the host context. Each activation is conceived as an adaptable, site-specific process, developed in dialogue with the territories and communities involved.

The pathways are addressed both to professional performers interested in artistic practices within social contexts, and to people of all ages and backgrounds belonging to local communities, informal groups, and territorial associations. The plurality of participants represents a central resource of the project and actively shapes its development.

Activities are structured as practical, participatory workshops in which dance and movement function as tools for relationship and narration, fostering the emergence of individual memories, lived experiences, and imaginaries. These laboratory pathways are conceived in continuity with the creations of the Zerogrammi company, sharing their themes and poetic trajectories, and offering communities an active space in which to traverse and reinterpret the artistic work.

Depending on the specific context, the process may culminate in a public performative sharing, understood not as a final outcome but as an integral moment of encounter and exchange within the process itself. The realisation of the project is preceded by a phase of co-design with the host organisations, aimed at the shared definition of objectives, timelines, and operational modalities, and at ensuring genuine rootedness in the context and the construction of lasting relationships.

THEMES

The poetic landscape that runs through Zerogrammi’s artistic work inhabits a threshold between dream and reality, nostalgia and loss, memory and distance. Memory is understood as a living matter that contributes to the shaping of identity, but also as a site of fracture, generating a sense of separation and inner exile.

The project investigates this exile not as a geographical condition, but as an emotional state: a suspension between what has been and what is yet to come, between lack and desire. From this tension does not arise immobility, but rather a drive toward transformation—the search for a place, real or symbolic, capable of restoring a sense of belonging and opening up possibilities for change.

The images of the choreographic narrative appear as fragments of an inner journey, inhabited by figures carrying disorientation, melancholy, and a desire for redemption. The distance that separates them from the viewer is an emotional distance, a space to be crossed together. Action takes the form of a procession of bodies in transit, resembling clowns in a theatre without a stage, capable of manifesting itself in different places: a meadow, a courtyard, an alleyway.

Within this vision, nostalgia becomes a generative force and loss relinquishes its definitive character: nothing is ever truly lost, but continuously reworked through time, the body, and relationship.