October 25 2025, Tor Bella Monaca

Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni, Rome

Anna Basti • BLCKEBY and Horror Vacui • Bosco Marino • CIRCA • Irene Dani and Arianna Scarnecchia / Sonodramma • Daria Deflorian • FOSSICK PROJECT • Daria Greco • mk • Muta Imago • Giovanni Onorato and Noemi Piva • Andrea Pizzalis • Giulia Scotti • Elena Vastano
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E ti vengo a cercare unfolds as a full day spent together in the unhurried rhythm of care, play, and attentive listening.

From the morning, Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni and the surrounding spaces come alive with lights, words, and drawings, inviting us to be surprised by a gaze that imagines without intruding, that observes and transforms into fantasy. Stories to be told. Bodies move together, guided by the vibrations of sound and the voices that fill the neighbourhood. We share lunch, blending flavours, memories, and origins, savouring the simple delight of being together.
The afternoon is filled with inventions, fantastical creatures, dances, and games. As darkness falls, the public space transforms into stories: images rise like dreams, revealing the hidden wonder in everyday life. Then night arrives, carried on waves of music.

A whole day to come and find one another.

11:00 / BLACK PADEL CLUB
mk
PISCINA MIRABILIS
performative environment

12:00 / Polo ex Fienile
Andrea Pizzalis
L’ERBA DEL MIO VICINO – ESITO
installation / workshop outcome

12:30 / Polo ex Fienile
Bosco Marino
PAESAGGI SONORI
dj set / sound environment

13:00 / Polo ex Fienile
PRANZO SOCIALE
meals prepared by the women of the Polo ex Fienile

15:00 / Polo ex Fienile
Giovanni Onorato e Noemi Piva
NON PARLIAMO LA STESSA LINGUA – ESITO
performance / workshop outcome

15:00 / Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni
Giulia Scotti
DI COSA PARLIAMO QUANDO PARLIAMO D’AMORE – ESITO
participatory activity / workshop outcome

16:00 / Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni
INDEX in collaborazione con CIRCA
IN UNA QUALUNQUE PARTE DEL PIANETA
installation / performance

16:00 / Polo ex Fienile
FOSSICK PROJECT
ENDANGERED ANIMALS – LABORATORIO
workshop for children aged 6 to 11

17:00 / Cubo Libro
Irene Dani e Arianna Scarnecchia / Sonodramma
TOR BELLA MONACA TALES
listening session / project presentation

18:30 / Polo ex Fienile
Elena Vastano
LA LUCE, L’OCCHIO, L’ARCHITETTURA – ESITO
installation / workshop outcome

19:00 / Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni
Daria Greco
BALLETTI
dance intervention

20:00 / Polo ex Fienile
FOSSICK PROJECT
ENDANGERED ANIMALS – PERFORMANCE
performance / workshop outcome

21:30 / Polo ex Fienile
BLCKEBY + Horror Vacui
MY LIFE COULD BE A MOVIE
live set

mk

PISCINA MIRABILIS

11:00 / BLACK PADEL CLUB

performative environment

Piscina Mirabilis was born from the desire to reach first and foremost a vast and non-exclusive community of dancers, performers, actors, athletes — bodies, figures, and people whose orientation is towards projection on a stage, a stage that does not necessarily coincide with the canonical professional performance scene. The stage becomes an unexpectedly everyday place, where the body and thought in motion can act unshaped by any predefined role.
We aim to intercept that energetic excess that secretly fuels a very large number of people interested in exploring their individuality also through movement, as posture and tension not directed by any pre-existing practice but open to an unprecedented understanding of oneself and others based on pure dynamic expression.

Piscina Mirabilis seeks to meet bodies in a state preceding any formal, projectual, or artistic result, in the free concentration of a doing that comes before any service to performance, the audience, the production organism, a focused study, ‘sharing’, or workshop. Evidently, it meets them while engaged in ‘something else’, which is impossible to name.
Piscina Mirabilis aims to foster the ignition of bodies in a space open, circumscribed only by the possibility of being there to transform the space into a place of immediate exchange, always completely free from any notion of aesthetic completion.
Piscina Mirabilis creates time, duration, and therefore an environment in which to carefully manipulate this extroversion and physical articulation of the self, with the sole certainty of being surrounded by the same potential in other bodies, in a soft cohabitation always aware of the environment in which it evolves.
Arbitrary nonchalance of a physical intensity that cannot be commodified.

Michele Di Stefano, choreographer and performer, after university studies traversed the punk-new wave music scene of the 1980s before embarking on a self-taught body research project with the founding of mk, a group hosted at the most important festivals of the new scene.
mk focuses on performance, choreography, and sound research. Among their most recent productions: Robinson, Around the World in 80 Days, Four Colonial Dances Up Close, and Grand Tour, choreographic investigations balancing pure landscape and tormented reconstruction of the exotic; Instruction series, performative environments created remotely via email in collaboration with xing. Alongside the circulation of shows, mk carries out an intense programme of conferences, workshops, and experimental proposals, including Wasted, Clima, AccademieEventuali, Reform Club, and the Balinese Dance Platform with Cristina Rizzo and Fabrizio Favale. mk is one of five international companies featured in the book Corpo Sottile, a look at new European choreography (Ubulibri, Milan 2003).
In 2014, Michele Di Stefano received the Silver Lion for dance. In 2019, Michele Di Stefano / mk won the Ubu Award for “Best Dance Performance of the Year” with Bermudas.

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Andrea Pizzalis

L’ERBA DEL MIO VICINO – ESITO

12:00 / Polo ex Fienile

installation / workshop outcome

In the garden of the Polo ex Fienile, the images collected by Andrea Pizzalis and the participants during the workshop The Grass of My Neighbour become a landscape to walk through.
Between imagined portraits and real fragments, the photographs form a constellation of gazes: suspended stories, sidelong glances, presences that inhabit our surroundings without being noticed. An installation that invites observation with curiosity and responsibility, recognising in others’ lives a reflection of our own.
In the morning, the opening will be accompanied by a brief account of the workshop led by Andrea Pizzalis; for the rest of the day, the images will remain among the trees, open to encounters, interpretation, and the passage of those who observe.
A garden of shared gazes, where the neighbour’s grass becomes a common space.

Andrea Pizzalis, born in Rome, is a director, photographer, and art director. He has worked as an actor with artists such as Emma Dante and ricci/forte. Since 2019, he has collaborated as dramaturge and assistant director with Daria Deflorian, while continuing to pursue his own artistic projects. From 2010, he embarked on a freelance path as a photographer and art director, which led in 2011 to being selected by Vogue Italia as one of the 100 Best Photographers for Photovogue 2011, included in the collective It’s all about time. He collaborates with major cultural institutions including MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, MAXXI L’Aquila, Museo delle Civiltà in Rome, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, and Centrale Fies.

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Bosco Marino

PAESAGGI SONORI

12:30 / Polo ex Fienile

dj set / sound environment

Opening and accompanying the community lunch, Bosco Marino’s Soundscapes flow through the space like a gentle breath. Its sonic waves mingle with the sounds of the gathering, opening the doors to the afternoon and guiding listeners on an imaginary excursion, made of rhythms that pulse like footsteps and melodies that dissolve like mist. A collective journey, between dream and dance, continuing the search for one another.

Bosco Marino is a hybrid creature moving between city smog and mountainous and saline ecosystems. In his eclectic sound journeys he imagines landscapes as soft as grassy blankets, then climbs among the rockier and denser beats, guiding listeners through a sound excursion where one dances and dreams until completely lost.

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PRANZO SOCIALE

13:00 / Polo ex Fienile

meals prepared by the women of the Polo

In the heart of the final day of E ti vengo a cercare, the social lunch becomes a moment of encounter and sharing. Around a long table in the garden of Polo ex Fienile, flavours, languages, and gestures intertwine. In collaboration with Associazione 21 luglio ETS, the women who frequent the Polo prepare typical dishes from their countries of origin: a mosaic of traditions telling the story of the world that lives here.
The lunch is free, but seats are limited and booking is required. People eat together, talk, and listen. It is a time to get to know and recognise one another, discovering that every recipe is a story, and that in the simple pleasure of being together lies the most authentic form of celebration.

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Giovanni Onorato and Noemi Piva

NON PARLIAMO LA STESSA LINGUA – ESITO

15:00 / Polo ex Fienile

performance / workshop outcome

During the Non parliamo la stessa lingua workshop, a group of local adolescents explored words, images, gestures, and memories to express themselves authentically and creatively. Through texts, drawings, music, and diary pages, each personal fragment became a starting point for a collective narrative, also guided by bodily improvisations opening new ways of communicating.
On the final day, participants’ work transforms into a performative presentation: words, gestures, and movements intertwine in a shared space, revealing the tensions, desires, and hidden truths of the storytellers. A small poetic revolution highlighting how language builds worlds and connections, inviting the audience to reflect on their own ways of speaking, listening, and being understood.
A living, open exhibition in which collective storytelling becomes a shared gesture and an invitation to discover the infinite languages that inhabit us.

Giovanni Onorato ⟶

Noemi Piva is a writer, dancer, and visual artist integrating these languages in her practice. She currently participates in several projects as a performer and is developing her third work settembre non arriverà mai (UMIDA). In recent years she has won various residency grants including KOMM TANZ, Alloggiando, and Permutazioni. She has been hosted in spaces such as Villa Nappi, S’ALA, Supercinema of Tuscania, and NOD. Since 2018 she collaborates as a dancer with artists of the national and international scene.

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Giulia Scotti

DI COSA PARLIAMO QUANDO PARLIAMO D’AMORE – ESITO

15:00 / Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni

participatory activity / workshop outcome

Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo d’amore becomes a moment of storytelling and sharing. Giulia Scotti presents the workshop journey, a voyage through words and images inspired by the stories of Raymond Carver, exploring how we speak about love today.
The boards created by the participants form a mosaic of small stories: gestures, dialogues, waiting, desires. Drawings born from everyday life reveal the delicacy with which love sometimes hides in simple things.
An open exhibition and a living narrative, offering a different way to approach others — and oneself — through art and words.

Giulia Scotti ⟶

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CIRCA, with contributions from the artistic direction of INDEX

IN UNA QUALUNQUE PARTE DEL PIANETA

16:00 / Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni

installation / performance

This year In una qualunque parte del pianeta arrives at Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni, in the heart of Tor Bella Monaca, for a single appearance. Following a process of listening and observation conducted with children aged 9–14, the performance-installation becomes a collective gesture, a way to see the neighbourhood with fresh eyes.
Based on what happens around them, the project — curated by CIRCA Studio with contributions from INDEX and its artistic direction (Daria Deflorian, Riccardo Fazi, Claudia Sorace) — creates a visual narrative drawn from the thoughts, desires, and visions of those who live in and move through this space.
A large luminous screen in the centre of the square traces the lines of a dramaturgy composed in real time: fragments of reality, dreams, and small occurrences from the neighbourhood intertwine, blending the visible and the invisible, the everyday and the cosmic. A listening and restitution experiment, in which reality emerges in its wonderful simplicity.
The artistic object remains where it is created, open to encounters with passers-by, play, and observation. The aim is to see and let others see the existing not as a background but as the protagonist, recognising the poetic force of a public space and the vitality it hosts every day, anywhere on the planet.

CIRCA is a collective of filmmakers, photographers, and video editors composed of Laura Accardo, Eleonora Mattozzi, and Maria Giovanna Sodero. They trained together at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and have been working in audiovisual documentation since 2019. They collaborate continuously with Roman institutions including Short Theatre Festival, INDEX productions, and PAV. Based on their artistic practices and documentary tools, they run multimedia workshops in several secondary schools in Rome (e.g., Rosa Parks – Plesso Carlo Pisacane in Torpignattara and Istituto Comprensivo Palombini in Rebibbia), focused on observation and storytelling of reality.

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FOSSICK PROJECT

ENDANGERED ANIMALS – WORKSHOP

16:00 / Polo ex Fienile

workshop for children aged 6–11

Starting from listening and observation, ENDANGERED ANIMALS invites children to see the world from the perspective of endangered animals. Guided by FOSSICK PROJECT, participants explore the sounds and shapes of nature, draw, sing, and build luminous figures. The workshop combines visual art and music, ecological reflection and play, imagining new ways of coexisting with the planet.
During the workshop, each chosen creature comes to life on acetate sheets, becomes a light puppet, and finds its voice in a collective song. A journey of discovery, teaching how to listen and narrate the fragile wonders of the living world.
The workshop culminates in a performance, where the puppets and voices of the participants form ENDANGERED ANIMALS – PERFORMANCE, a small collective concert open to all, turning learning into shared experience.

FOSSICK PROJECT is a duo composed of visual artist Cecilia Valagussa and singer-songwriter Marta Del Grandi. Their collaboration began in 2016, focusing on storytelling inspired by nature and animals. They explore endangered species, creating shows on location in the habitats of the chosen protagonists. They have performed in Italy, Belgium, France, India, Nepal, and Thailand.
Their live act combines analogue animation by Cecilia, moving hand-drawn characters on a projector using acetate, flour, water, and small objects, with Marta’s songs and instrumentals combining voice, synths, guitars, beats, and field recordings.
They have produced five shows: Long Tong Tales (2018), The Great Giant Leap (2019), Fire Charmers (2020), Gilgamesh (2022), Underneath (2023), and a short film Wild Card (2020), 20 minutes of music and animation in collaboration with producer Howie B (Bjork, Massive Attack, U2). Since 2020, they work worldwide with directors, festivals, and organisations, keeping music and analogue animation central and developing a special technique of visual and sound narrative composition.

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an INDEX project, realised and curated by Irene Dani and Arianna Scarnecchia / Sonodramma

TOR BELLA MONACA TALES

17:00 / Cubo Libro

Polo ex Fienile, Rome

listening sessions / project presentation

Tor Bella Monaca Tales arises from an act of listening. Irene Dani and Arianna Scarnecchia walk alongside voices, collecting minimal gestures, full silences, and words, entering into a relationship with those who inhabit the neighbourhood in their daily lives.
The interviews do not seek characters, but presences: men and women, boys and girls, stories that emerge like veins in stone. These voices become sound: a podcast, and then vinyl records, tangible objects that remain. A small memory discotheque will be born: not for dancing, but for listening. To pause for a moment and truly hear what flows beneath the surface.
It is a living archive, imperfect and human. A place where the voice of a neighbourhood echoes, becomes narrative, becomes future.

The event is accessible to the Deaf community thanks to the presence of a LIS interpreter.

Irene Dani works in sound production and, with a background in Literature and Critical Theory, experiments with the interaction of sounds and voices as an independent producer. She has collaborated with Usmaradio (RI) and since 2023 co-curates “Sonodramma,” a programme on sound narration and listening for Teatro del Lido di Ostia. She collaborates with Radio Papesse and is involved in workshops and training in radio production. She is a researcher at the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale (AR) and, since 2024, part of the sound production collective “Panothi.”

Arianna Scarnecchia is a documentary filmmaker and reporter. She holds an MPhil in European Identities and Cultures. She has covered social and cultural issues writing for il manifesto, Alias, Altreconomia, Domani, and il Giornale della Musica. She is the author of podcasts and audio documentaries for Rai Radio 3, RSI, and Altreconomia. She has collaborated with the editorial teams of Prima Pagina and Tutta la città ne parla of Rai Radio 3. A member of the Italian Association of Oral History, she collaborates on projects dedicated to memories and their narration in audio form. In 2025, she co-curated the listening series of “Sonodramma” for Teatro del Lido di Ostia. Since 2024, she has been part of the sound production collective “Panothi.”

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Elena Vastano

LA LUCE, L’OCCHIO E L’ARCHITETTURA – ESITO

18:30 / Polo ex Fienile

installation / workshop outcome

The garden of Polo ex Fienile transforms under the gaze of the participants in the La Luce, l’occhio e l’architettura workshop. Between natural and artificial light, theory and practice, participants explored how a beam of light shapes the environment, reveals details, suggests atmospheres, and guides the observer.
During the lighting activation on the final day, Elena Vastano will present the journey of the workshop. The installations in the space will take form thanks to the participants’ attention and care, and the lights will remain on throughout the evening, turning the space into a silent dialogue between body, gaze, and architecture.
An experience open to encounter and interpretation, inviting us to recognise in light the tool that allows us to see together — and with new eyes — what surrounds us.

Elena Vastano, born in 1989, is a theatre lighting designer. After earning a degree in Architecture from the University of Florence, she deepened her skills in lighting design through a workshop at the Politecnico di Milano, focused on enhancing cultural heritage. She has worked in lighting design studios, exploring aesthetic and functional solutions with particular attention to the impact of light on spaces and people. Since 2015, she has worked as a lighting technician and theatre lighting designer, combining technical knowledge with daily practice and artistic creativity, bringing her lighting designs to theatres across Italy.

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Daria Greco

BALLETTI

19:00 / Largo Ferruccio Mengaroni

dance intervention

BALLETTI is a project devoted to faithfully transmitting the choreography of music videos.
In the 1990s, pop stars such as Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Ricky Martin, Janet Jackson, among others, combined their music with dance, creating choreographed performances — solo or with other dancers — that became recurring elements in music videos and live shows of that era. Already in the early 1980s, Michael Jackson danced his songs memorably, but from Madonna’s Vogue (1990) onwards, dancing in music videos became a genre in itself.
Today, Daria Greco considers this choreographic production as a repertoire and makes it central to her research. BALLETTI aims to replicate as precisely as possible the original movements, or “steps” (linguistically echoing that period), from music video choreography.

Daria Greco is a dancer and choreographer whose research focuses on the relationship between body mechanics and imagination. She is an associated artist of the Chiasma group (MIC) by Salvo Lombardo and also collaborates with Carsten Sanger, Alice Gosti/Malacarne, Fabritia D’Intino, Clementine Vanlerberghe, Riccardo Guratti, -DOM, and Federica Santoro. Her authored projects include Crangon Crangon (Short Theatre debut 2022), [parentesi] (2022, with Jacopo Ruben Dell’Abate), Kern (2023, with JOMOON), Rampante (2023, with Ondina Quadri and Margherita Panizon), and BALLETTI (2024). She is also the author of audiovisual projects Crangon Crangon Eyes and Rampante. She co-founded Ostudio, an artistic co-habitation project in Rome’s Torpignattara neighbourhood, and SiR_sharing, a network and sharing space for research practices aimed at performers in the capital. She has actively collaborated with Scup_Sport e Cultura Popolare, a self-managed Roman organisation, launching her educational project PAUSA PRANZO_Contemporary Dance Classes. She conducts artistic research workshops for dancers and non-dancers and serves as a movement coach for actors and circus performers.

FOSSICK PROJECT

ENDANGERED ANIMALS – PERFORMANCE

20:00 / Polo ex Fienile

performance / workshop outcome

During the final day of E ti vengo a cercare, the work from ENDANGERED ANIMALS – LABORATORY takes shape in a luminous and musical public action. Transparent silhouettes of animals, animated by the hands of the children, dance on the lightboard, while their voices intertwine with verses and rhythms inspired by the sounds of nature.
A small visual concert that sparks the imagination and invites care for life in all its forms. A collective, simple, and essential gesture, reminding us that every species, every breath, every wingbeat belongs to the same story.

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BLCKEBY + Horror Vacui

MY LIFE COULD BE A MOVIE

21:30 / Polo ex Fienile

live set

As darkness embraces Polo ex Fienile, BLCKEBY takes centre stage to guide bodies and souls through a final sonic evolution. His set traverses fluid boundaries: minimal electronic, urban rhythms, bass pulsing like underground veins, melodies suspended between dream and reality.
Alongside the sound, Horror Vacui shapes the space with moving images, projecting visions that interact with the music and transform architectural surfaces into dynamic landscapes. Lights and rhythms intertwine, bodies and video meet in the darkness.
A finale that is body and vision, dancing and open to wonder — the most authentic way to close this day of research and celebration.

BLCKEBY (blæki:bɔɪ) is the alias of Marco Diamubeni, a Roman producer and DJ. His music explores a fluid electronic dimension, weaving together fragments of hip-hop, R&B, ambient, and bass music in an avant-garde and urban-influenced synthesis. In 2015, he debuted with Plume EP and Flying Attitude EP on Sostanze Records. In 2016, he released the single Girl with SVNSET WAVES, followed by the 2019 EP Hello I’m… Trying my Best on the Greek Oneirodes Collective. In 2021, he released INNER (doubledoubleu records), an LP praised by the press that began a deeper, introspective musical exploration. In 2025, My Life Could be a Movie was released independently on 21 February. BLCKEBY has DJed at iconic clubs like Circolo degli Illuminati and Goa Club, and at festivals such as Spring Attitude, Manifesto, Pinewood Festival, Short Theatre Festival, Frammenti Festival, Atlantico Festival, SOMEWHERE Festival, and Sundance Sunday. He has participated in radioshows on Radio Raheem, RBL Torino, NEU Radio, Hotel Radio Paris, Radio Relativa, and Quantica Radio. He currently hosts Radio Sugo and curated a residency on 1020 Radio (UK) with the radioshow I Must Be Elsewhere from 2020–2023.

Horror Vacui is the artistic pseudonym of Alessio Troya. A light and set designer, he combines technical experience in theatre and events with artistic study in art history and live performance and multimedia installations.

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