
// ZEROGRAMMI
REPERTORIO
STEFANO MAZZOTTA
JENTU
+ synopsis
Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try again.
Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
JENTU is a creation for two dancers inspired by Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Through a close reading of the Cervantine work, the focus shifts from the heroic deeds of the protagonist and his companions—from Sancho Panza to Dulcinea—to the meaning these actions may still hold for us today.
Deeds without a happy ending, futile gestures, consumed in the half-light of a room. Actions that nonetheless prefigure a new ethic and a new model of hero: one without special powers, without glory or trumpet blasts to announce a fragile humanity. Brighter colours dissolve, washing the scene like watercolours through choreographies of solos and duets, actions and silences infused with a gentle mood.
With a light, elusive stroke, the figure of a fragile hero emerges—an emblem of an ethic of failure, one that renews the challenge to try again, from the beginning, with courage. A figure that speaks of the ability to accept falling in order to pursue one’s deepest ideal, and to rediscover, in the tension toward our noblest desires, the wonder of the journey required to realise them.
Thus are the characters of JENTU: exiled from a time to which they no longer belong, or from a place that has been taken from them—suspended, foreign—they inhabit a Leopardian landscape whose threshold is surrender, the only possible site of belonging and meaning.
+ credits
progetto, regia e coreografia / project, direction and choreography Stefano Mazzotta | con / with Chiara Guglielmi, Stefano Mazzotta | drammaturgia e collaborazione all'allestimento / dramaturgy and collaboration to the direction Fabio Chiriatti | disegno luci / light design Alberta Finocchiaro | produzione / production Zerogrammi | coproduzione / coproduction Pim Off (It), CASA LUFT (It) | un ringraziamento a / thanks to Chiara Michelini, Villa Cultura (It), Tersicorea T.Off (It) | con il sostegno di / with the support of Regione Piemonte, MIBAC
genere → genre TEATRODANZA/DANCETHEATRE
pubblico → audience 14+
durata → duration 1h

















