Past Forward emerges from Zerogrammi’s archive of creations and moves through twenty-five years of choreographic research as an open, unstable and continuously transformable material. It is not an orderly collection of completed works, but a landscape of traces, gestures, images, bodily memories and presences that continue to question the present.

By its very nature, dance resists definitive fixation. It remains in bodies, in details, in postures, in the invisible tensions that pass through time. Every creation leaves behind a fragile constellation of documentary materials, but above all of experiences that have settled in the bodies of those who have inhabited it.

Past Forward exists within this space of transmission and metamorphosis, where repertoire and contemporaneity cease to be separate dimensions. Archived creations are not regarded as static testimonies, but as organisms capable of continuing to generate relationship, listening and transformation.

The archive thus becomes a territory to be explored: a space where memory and invention coexist, and where the past continues to produce new possibilities of presence.