ONGOING
STEFANO MAZZOTTA
// ZEROGRAMMI
A FUTURA MEMORIA
A PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
The project emerges from Zerogrammi’s artistic and relational research, which for years has been focused on building a dialogue between choreographic creation, communities, and territories. At the core of the work lie memory, belonging, roots, and the possibility of generating shared meaning through the experience of the body.
A futura memoria approaches memory not as a fixed repository, but as a living, fragile, and transformable matter. The body becomes the place where experiences, lived realities, absences, and desires settle, only to resurface through gesture, relationship, and storytelling.
The project’s poetic landscape moves between nostalgia and loss, dream and reality, distance and the desire for belonging. The exile it evokes is not only geographical, but also internal: a condition of suspension between what has been and what is not yet. From this tension emerges a generative possibility, in which loss can be reworked and transformed into movement, narrative, and presence.
A futura memoria develops through experiential and participatory pathways created in dialogue with the contexts that host it. Each activation begins with a co-design phase involving institutions, communities, and local organisations in order to collectively define objectives, timing, working methods, and possibilities for public restitution.
The process is grounded in practical workshops where dance and movement become tools for relationship, listening, and storytelling. Participants are guided in bringing forth memories, lived experiences, and personal imaginaries, progressively transforming them into a shared vocabulary.
The project maintains a strong continuity with the company’s artistic creations, traversing their themes and poetic trajectories while offering communities an active space for re-elaborating the artistic work. In this sense, each pathway is not a collateral activity, but an autonomous form of cultural activation capable of generating relationships, crossings, and new possibilities for connection.
Previous stages include experiences in Italy and abroad, among them Interconnessioni in Sardinia, Walzen in Turin and Collegno, the international project Be Part OF_Elegia delle cose perdute in Iceland, and Danzando memorie sul mare in Pesaro.
ZEROGRAMMI | MINISTERO DELLA CULTURA | REGIONE PIEMONTE | ICELAND LIECHTENSTEIN NORWAY GRANTS | BRNO | MINISTRY OF CULTURE CZECH REPUBLIC | CITY OF BRNO | SOUTH MORAVIAN REGION | STATE FUND FOR CULTURE CZECH REPUBLIC | NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN CZ | MEETING BRNO FESTIVAL BRNO | CZECH REPUBLIC | DANSVERKSTAEDID REYKJAVIK | MEZI PLOTY FESTIVAL PRAGUE / CZECH REPUBLIC |
STATUS: ongoing
FIELDS: contemporary dance / community / memory / participation / education / territory
ACTIVATABLE FORMATS: workshop / participatory pathway / community project / performative restitution / training
ACTIVATION CONTEXTS: theatres / schools / cultural centres / public spaces / outdoor settings / local communities / festivals
AUDIENCES: general audiences / local communities / informal groups / associations / schools / professional performers
MODES: site-specific / participatory / adaptable / indoor / outdoor
DURATION: variable / to be defined according to the context
LANGUAGES: Italian / English / non-verbal
PARTNERS: cultural institutions / festivals / schools / associations / local communities
AVAILABLE MATERIALS: dossier / photo gallery / video / press
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