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TELLING
STORIES:
A MANI
FESTO
We dance the everyday: the minimal, invisible, imperfect details revealing the deepest aspects of our human being. We dance the vulnerability: a wince, a contradiction, an hesitation, a wait. In a time that is a nostalgic now, leaning towards the future, moving from the individual with the obligation to speak in the name of everyone. In a place that is here, crossing and carrying the whole body to embrace the world. In a form that is an offered gesture, poor and peripheral, able to rename things.
Stefano Mazzotta
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THE CREATION
OF LIVE PERFORMANCE
The production of live performances is Zerogrammi’s main activity. It includes the choreographic projects of 1 main choreographer, 2 resident authors as well as a group of young associated authors supported through a three-year call for support: different gazes, aesthetics and languages around the multiple techniques of physical theatre and dance.
THE COLLATERAL
PATHS
In the complex journey that accompanies production, the creative processes, open to the contamination of different languages and contexts, always give life to parallel and collateral paths in order to formative and community experiences. The dialogue with the uniqueness of territories and contexts is the nourishment with which we always return to the choreographic work, renewing its meaning and urgency.
BIO
Zerogrammi is a dance company founded in 2001, directed by choreographer Stefano Mazzotta, supported by Piedmont Region and MIC/Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage. The organic journey of discovery, leading to creation (with productions realized in collaboration with theaters and festivals in Italy, Russia, Portugal, Holland, Spain, Germany) comes to compositional work through dramaturgical and choreographic research, social and educational projects, residences built around specific anthropological and geographical interests, practice of languages such as photography, plastic arts, literature, to give to the creative work new signs, new meanings and an experience-based baggage representing the essential tool with which we come to the construction of our artistic work, renewing its sense and urgency.
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PRESS
REVIEW
Zerogrammi's work, for the choreography of Stefano Mazzotta, always transport us into a poetic world, crossing a past of lost things, of ancient but perpetually new feelings. Where memories, nostalgia, dreams, illusions materialize in the painful or joyful bodies of characters who seem to emerge from albums recovered from old trunks, and resurface in the present. To tell us who we were, who we are today, what we have lost, and what we can still be.
Giuseppe Distefano, Cittànuova
Literature and philosophy, tradition and everyday life for original and sharp, ironic and intense shows, works characterized by an accurate operation of subtraction.
Hystrio Prize 2013