2013

A PERFORMANCE

STEFANO MAZZOTTA

// ZEROGRAMMI

LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE

“Be what you would seem to be.”
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

La grammatica delle nuvole is the system of rules governing the ability to dream.

It is to this system that we may entrust ourselves whenever it seems there are no longer unknown places left to visit, no forests left to explore, no seas left to cross in the hope of discovering mysterious islands.

We may lose ourselves among its pages whenever we begin to feel estranged from ourselves, when an impending sense of uniformity appears to mock our differences.

Then we may call ourselves “Alice,” guardians of a land called Wonderland — light, overflowing with curious questions, falling freely toward a mysterious unknown that promises adventure.

Alice.

La grammatica delle nuvole tells the story of a backward fall.

And of a Wonderland that awaits us all, suspended within the dawn of a sweet and perpetual autumn.

It is inhabited by improbable and eccentric figures recounting a carousel of evocations and memories belonging to a distant time once shared with Alice, of whom only the echo of a hidden voice now remains upon the stage.

It is therefore the sweetness of memory that reigns within this nostalgic autumn garden where it is always possible to have tea, where one is allowed to become large or small whenever necessary.

A place where — if only we wished to name them and call them toward us — infinite delicate wonders might unfold before our eyes, hidden within the smallest and most insignificant things.
progetto, regia e coreografia / project, direction and choreography STEFANO MAZZOTTA | con / with CHIARA GUGLIELMI, CHIARA MICHELINI, STEFANO ROVEDA | drammaturgia / dramaturgy FABIO CHIRIATTI | voce off / voice off MARIA CRISTINA VALENTINI | costumi, scenografie e luci / costumes, sets and lights STEFANO MAZZOTTA | produzione / production ZEROGRAMMI | in collaborazione con / in collaboration with TEATRO DI BISMANTOVA (IT), CASA LUFT (IT) | con il sostegno di / with the support of REGIONE PIEMONTE, MIBAC |
PHOTOGALLERY
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LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE // IN SCENA
PH. G. DI BELLO
PHOTOGALLERY
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LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE // CASTELNOVO 2013
PH. VITUCCIA
VIDEO
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LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE // teaser
genere → genre TEATRODANZA/DANCETHEATRE

pubblico → audience 7+ / TOUT PUBLIC

durata → duration 1h

BACK TO FORMATS

“(...) 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

2013

A PERFORMANCE

ARCHIVE

STEFANO MAZZOTTA

// ZEROGRAMMI

LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE

PHOTOGALLERY

#PHOTOGALLERY, #CREAZIONI

LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE // IN SCENA

PH. G. DI BELLO

PHOTOGALLERY

#PHOTOGALLERY, #CREAZIONI

LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE // CASTELNOVO 2013

PH. VITUCCIA

VIDEO

#TEASER, #CREAZIONI

LA GRAMMATICA DELLE NUVOLE // teaser

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“(...) 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.

— 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