COMPAGNIA ZEROGRAMMI. is a dance company founded in 2001, directed by choreographer Stefano Mazzotta, supported by Piedmont Region and MIBAC/Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage. The organic journey of discovery, leading to creation (over 30 titles realized in collaboration with theaters and festivals in Italy, Russia, Portugal, Holland, Spain, Germany) comes to compositional work through dramatic 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. (…) From these concept have arsose creations that embrace inspirations and stimuli from the most diverse worlds. Literature and philosophy, tradition and everyday life have given birth to original and sharp, ironic and intense performances, works marked by a careful integrity (Hystrio Award 2013).
“We dance the everyday: the smallest details, invisible, imperfect details behind which the deepest aspects of our being human are hidden. We dance the fragility: a shudder, a contradiction, an uncertainty, an expectation. In a time that is a nostalgic now, leaning towards the future, and moves in the individual with the obligation to speak on behalf of all. In a place that is in the here, that invests, crosses and cracks the whole body to embrace the world. In a form that is offered gesture, poor and peripheral, capable of renaming things.” (Stefano Mazzotta)