LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE

“(...) One of the deepest dance-theatre experiences within the Turin contemporary scene, where the three characters become evocations — unconscious fragments of stories suspended between reality and dream. (...)”

— Giovanni Bertuccio | Whip Art

“(...) This Alice possesses a unique narrative strength, born from tenderness and from an absolute yet controlled pathos. The choreography accompanies the audience into an intimacy with a bittersweet flavour, awakening a feeling of trusting and moved gentleness toward the fantastic narrative.

Autumn, in this Alice, transforms into a second spring, leaving the spectator enveloped in soft colours and in the beauty of a finale where a silence charged with emotion accompanies rediscovered affections.

Fifty minutes of pure poetry. (...)”

— Michele Olivieri | Danzaeffebi

“(...) The choreographic language of Zerogrammi is governed by a ‘grammar of clouds’: a light lexicon of grimaces and sighs, waits and pursuits, winks and nursery rhymes.

In Alice, as in many of the company’s previous works, we find all the elements that have made Zerogrammi one of the most compelling realities within Italian contemporary dance: the care devoted to choreographic composition, the evocative power of images, the refined use of scenic space and the attention to dramaturgical development. (...)”

— Maddalena Giovannelli | Stratagemmi

“(...) Like an epiphany arrive the vivid smells, flavours and lights of distant days, asleep within memory and awakened in the present whenever emotion reconnects them to us in all their freshness.

A melancholic euphoria infuses that nostalgic warmth of passing time and falling leaves — red-veined, broad and palmate — covering an ‘autumn garden’ lost somewhere beyond.

Within this space reign the rules established by La grammatica delle nuvole by Zerogrammi. (...)”

— Lucia Medri | Teatro e Critica

“(...) The performance is a fluid composition of gestural, sonic and visual signs recreating themselves through a unique communicative form — never didactic, always suggestive and evocative.

The complex combination of different dramaturgical elements reaches the audience in an incredibly direct and effective manner.

La grammatica delle nuvole is a language without syntactic rules, yet clear and readable in every gesture; it leaves no traces yet fills spaces. It is the punctuation of a blank page, a story written without ink.”

— Alice Giuliani | Nucleo Art-Zine

“(...) Wonder is visual: it exists within their bodies, within the stumbles, within the aerial dance of swinging illuminated chandeliers, within the joyful regression toward the illogical. (...)”

— Salvatore Insana | KLP