ONGOING
STEFANO MAZZOTTA
// ZEROGRAMMI
PAST FORWARD
A PERFORMANCE · A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT · A CHOREOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PROJECT · A MULTIMEDIA PROJECT
Past Forward emerges from the archive of Zerogrammi’s creations and moves through twenty-five years of choreographic research as an open, unstable, and continuously transformable matter. Not an ordered collection of completed works, but a landscape of traces, gestures, images, bodily memories, and presences that continue to question the present.
Dance, by its very nature, resists definitive fixation. It remains within bodies, in details, postures, and invisible tensions that travel through time. Every creation leaves behind a fragile constellation made of documentary materials, but above all of experiences sedimented within the bodies of those who inhabited them.
Past Forward inhabits 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 living organisms capable of continuing to generate relation, listening, and transformation.
The archive thus becomes a territory to be traversed: a space where memory and invention coexist, and where the past continues to generate new possibilities of presence.
Past Forward activates practices of revisiting, transmission, and reactivation of Zerogrammi’s choreographic repertoire through different artistic and relational devices.
Choreographies, working materials, notes, images, scenic fragments, and bodily memories are reinhabited through processes involving artists, young authors, performers, temporary communities, and diverse contexts. Every reactivation inevitably produces a shift: a deviation, a new interpretation, a different way of inhabiting the gesture.The project unfolds through restagings, transmission practices, workshops, audiovisual devices, installations, public encounters, and research paths that continuously place archive and contemporary creation in dialogue.
The repertoire is not preserved in the pursuit of an immutable form, but traversed as living matter. Transmission does not coincide with replication, but with a dynamic process that embraces transformation, vulnerability, and reinvention as essential parts of memory itself.
Within this perspective, the body is not merely an interpreter of the archive: it becomes its support, a space of rewriting, and a future possibility.
ZEROGRAMMI | PLAYWITHFOOD FESTIVAL | MINISTERO DELLA CULTURA | REGIONE PIEMONTE | UMBRIA DANZA FESTIVAL | in costruzione / under construction |
STATUS Ongoing
FIELDS Living archive · choreographic repertoire · embodied memory · transmission · performative research · contemporary dance
AVAILABLE FORMATS Performance · workshop · installation · audiovisual · publication · public talk · educational pathway · residency
ACTIVATION CONTEXTS Theatres · archives · museums · libraries · unconventional spaces · educational contexts · sites of memory
AUDIENCE Artists · young authors · students · temporary research communities · diverse audiences
MODES Participatory · intergenerational · multidisciplinary · adaptable · site-sensitive
