“(...) The award for best contemporary dance performance, assigned to Punto di fuga, a co-production between Italy and Russia, opens toward the future. Created during the 2011 cultural exchange year between the two countries, the project brought together the young companies Zerogrammi from Turin and Dialogue Dance from Kostroma. It was precisely in the Russian city, in February 2011, that Emanuele Sciannamea and Stefano Mazzotta — dancers and choreographers originally from Southern Italy and trained at the prestigious Scuola Paolo Grassi — arrived with their agile ensemble. The twenty-five degrees below zero of the Russian winter and their limited knowledge of Pushkin’s language did not discourage them, and together with two performers from Dialogue Dance they created Punto di fuga, an all-male piece that reinterprets Seneca’s Thyestes through strength and irony. Applauded in winter in Kostroma and in summer in Turin at the Teatro a Corte festival, the newly awarded Punto di fuga encapsulates the thought shared by the four young artists: ‘encounter, and therefore confrontation, is the only true wealth worth conquering.’”— V. Bonelli, Russia Oggi

“The intuition of Stefano Mazzotta and the company Zerogrammi — to return that tragedy to the body, to flesh, to traverse it without resorting to words and above all not in a descriptive way, but rather as a reflection of what occurs on a deeper level (that of consciousness) — proves extremely effective. (...) Thyestes stages the loss of identity — indeed, its disintegration — and a body deeply wounded, like the rough wooden logs scattered across the stage, still bearing visible traces of cuts.”— Francesca Maria Rizzotti, KLP