ONGOING
STEFANO MAZZOTTA
CORPOMEMORIA
PERFORMANCES, PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECTS, VIDEO PROJECTS
CORPOMEMORIA is a choreographic, visual, and performative research project exploring the relationship between memory, body, and time, investigating how the past continues to shape the present and how movement can become a means of knowledge, testimony, and transformation.
At the heart of the research is the body understood as a living archive: a place where individual experiences, collective memories, gestures, and layers of time accumulate. An archive that is never static, but continually transforms through experience and relationships with others.
Documents, images, testimonies, and audiovisual materials enter into dialogue with choreographic practice, not simply as records to be preserved or represented, but as material to be reactivated. In the passage from document to gesture, memory acquires new possibilities of expression and becomes a sensory and shared experience.
This perspective also recognises the political dimension of the body. Every body carries the traces of its own time and, through dance, exposes them to the gaze of others. The stage thus becomes a relational space where personal memories and collective histories can meet, be questioned, and transformed.
The project unfolds alongside the twenty-fifth anniversary of Zerogrammi's founding, offering an opportunity to revisit the company's tangible and intangible heritage: creations, practices, images, encounters, and relationships that continue to live in the bodies of those who have been part of its history.
CORPOMEMORIA unfolds through different artistic trajectories, each autonomous in form and language, yet united by a shared investigation into the perception of time and the relationship between bodymemory and gesturedocument.
The research explores three temporal dimensions — past, future, and present — understood not as separate territories, but as experiences that coexist and continually transform within individual and collective perception.
01 / PAST
Elegy of Lost Things
An exploration of memory, absence, and the traces left behind by what disappears. The body moves through inner landscapes and real places, giving form to memories, losses, and a sense of belonging. Dance becomes a practice of remembrance and transformation, in which the past continues to manifest itself through gesture.
02 / FUTURE
The Tale of the Unknown Island
Inspired by the work of José Saramago, the project explores desire, imagination, and the possibility of what does not yet exist. The future takes shape as a space of projection, exploration, and change. The body confronts the unknown and the tension towards what has yet to happen.
03 / PRESENT
STILL
An exploration of presence, attention, and the elasticity of lived time. Through stillness, duration, and observation, STILL investigates what becomes perceptible when the gaze lingers on things. The present emerges as a meeting place between memory and anticipation, where even the smallest gesture can reveal a particular intensity.
Alongside stage productions, CORPOMEMORIA takes shape through video projects, installations, workshop practices, and site-specific actions.
Each format offers an autonomous way of engaging with the research, expanding its languages and creating new opportunities for encounters with audiences.
ZEROGRAMMI | TERSICOREA | INTERCONNESSIONI | CASA LUFT | ILLADOR FILMS | ARCA DEL TEMPO | FESTIVAL DANZA ESTATE | C.IE LA MÊME BALLE | LA NAVE DEL DUENDE | TWAIN – PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE | CANTIERI TEATRALI KOREJA | CE.D.A.C. SARDEGNA | ACCADEMIA ALBERTINA DI BELLE ARTI DI TORINO | ACCADEMIA LIGUSTICA DI BELLE ARTI DI GENOVA | ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ARTES E DESIGN DE CALDAS DA RAINHA | MINISTERO DELLA CULTURA | REGIONE PIEMONTE | REGIONE AUTONOMA DELLA SARDEGNA | FONDAZIONE DI SARDEGNA | SOPRINTENDENZA ARCHEOLOGIA, BELLE ARTI E PAESAGGIO DI CAGLIARI, ORISTANO E SUD SARDEGNA | COMUNE DI SETTIMO SAN PIETRO | COMUNE DI SELARGIUS | COMUNE DI QUARTUCCIU | SOCIETÀ DI NAVIGAZIONE LAGO DI VIVERONE | COOPERATIVA SPECUS | COOPERATIVA BIOS
2025
VIDEO
IL RACCONTO DELL'ISOLA SCONOSCIUTA // teaser
2025
PHOTOGALLERY
IL RACCONTO DELL'ISOLA SCONOSCIUTA // in scena
PH. VITUCCIA
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2023
PHOTOGALLERY
IL RACCONTO DELL'ISOLA SCONOSCIUTA // UN IMMAGINARIO // PUGLIA 2023
PH. VITUCCIA
2020/2024
PHOTOGALLERY
ELEGIA DELLE COSE PERDUTE // IN SCENA
PH. VITUCCIA
2020
VIDEO
ELEGìA DELLE COSE PERDUTE // behind the scenes (sottotitolato)
2020
VIDEO
ELEGìA DELLE COSE PERDUTE // trailer film
2020
PHOTOGALLERY
ELEGIA // SARDEGNA 2020
PH. VITUCCIA
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2019
PHOTOGALLERY
ELEGìA // MAKING OF
PH. A. MATHIEU
2019
VIDEO
INTERCONNESSIONI 2019 // una residenza artistica per Zerogrammi/Elegìa delle cose perdute
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2019
PHOTOGALLERY
ELEGIA // TUSCANIA 2019
PH. VITUCCIA
STATUS Ongoing
FIELDS Contemporary dance, memory, archives, cultural heritage, visual and audiovisual arts, performance research, participation.
AVAILABLE FORMATS Stage performances, site-specific performances, dance films, audiovisual installations, workshops, encounters, participatory practices, research projects and initiatives for the enhancement of archival heritage.
ACTIVATION CONTEXTS Theatres, festivals, museums, historical and audiovisual archives, cultural institutions, unconventional spaces, sites of memory, urban and community settings.
TARGET AUDIENCES General audiences, local communities, cultural professionals, artists, researchers, students, institutions and organisations involved in the preservation and promotion of memory and cultural heritage.
MODES OF ENGAGEMENT Production and touring, co-production, artistic residencies, interdisciplinary collaborations, site-specific projects, participatory research programmes, cultural mediation activities.
