Daniela Marcozzi. Theater director, performer, educator, and interdisciplinary researcher, certified whale-watching guide, and environmental biotechnologist by training.

Daniela develops her work at the intersection of performing arts, physical theater, performance, ecology, and scientific research. With a background in environmental biotechnology and artistic research (Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Switzerland), her practice investigates the relationship between the human body, ecosystems, and the more-than-human world, with a particular focus on aquatic environments. In 2015 in Berlin, she founded the contemporary theater project and company Marcozzi Contemporary Theater.

Her research integrates fieldwork in the open sea—in Italy, Greece, and Baja California—with body-based performing methodologies inspired by the sensory systems of marine mammals. A certified WWF whale-watching guide and breath coach, she develops performances, workshops, and site-specific projects that explore nature as a space for listening, ecological relationship, and perceptual transformation.

Ilaria Di Maio. Based in Berlin by choice, performer, and product manager. For over ten years, she has been developing her path between Italy and Germany, collaborating on Marcozzi Contemporary Theater projects both as a performer and in workshop organization and production assistance.

Her research stems from the desire to explore the body as a place of listening, transformation, and relationship, investigating the connections between individual experience, the environment, and contemporary performing practices. She is interested in creative processes that bring movement, perception, and presence into dialogue, searching for languages capable of giving form to the urgencies that run through the different stages of life.

In parallel, she works as a Product Manager, bringing a perspective oriented toward project design, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the development of shared methodologies to artistic processes.

Chiara Gistri. An independent multidisciplinary artist active in the contemporary performing arts, she develops site-specific devices and participatory practices that weave together puppetry, vocal work, and contemporary ritual.

Her research is shaped as a situated practice that investigates the relationship between body, space, and community, working with human fragility as public and collective material, and activating processes of listening and transformation within urban and local contexts.

A licensed psychologist, she integrates expertise in group facilitation and the reading of relational dynamics into her artistic design, embracing relationship itself as a creative device.

Didier de la rose. Sound artist, field recordist.

He creates hypnotic soundscapes and unstable textures on the border between synthesis and nature, raw and pulsating frequencies that breathe and hold the listener at the very edge of perception.

His work investigates the listening of spaces and materials, translating vibrations and acoustic memories into compositions.

He lives and works in Italy.

Benedetta Rocchi. Her research shares the same structure as a meadow in full bloom in spring—multiform, shifting, seemingly chaotic, yet organically systemic: an ordered chaos of bodily practices, mountains to climb, crystal-clear waters to dive into, marine horizons to contemplate, and dogs to hug.

Her readings span from the macro to the microcosm, building a personal philosophy made of ivy and photons, synapses and hyphae, ancestral rituals and anti-capitalist practices, interspecies gazes, and cosmic breaths.

Maria Cristina Filippone. Yarn artist and artisan of soaps and ointments, Cristina nurtures her naturalistic and artistic soul with beautiful handcrafted creations of yarns and local crafts, helping to make the world a happier, better, and more sustainable place.

A lover of joy and creative madness, a nature lover, and a devotee of beach clean-ups and community event organizing, Cristina handcrafts creams, ointments, soaps, infused oils, and similar products starting from local organic ingredients.

She recovers and restores turn-of-the-century linens, bringing them back to life by salvaging the yarns and the weaves that our grandmothers and mothers knew inside out.

Francesca Sarah Toich is an Italian artist who lives and works in Paris. Specializing in classical Italian literature, she is recognized as one of the finest performers of Dante’s Divine Comedy, for which she won the Lauro Dantesco award in Ravenna. She has staged Goldoni’s L’Uomo di Mondo at the Pushkin Museum and the GITIS Conservatory in Moscow, and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice across two tours in the United States.

Her latest novel, Ad Bestias, has been adapted for the stage and released as a podcast in several languages. She has lectured on Commedia dell’Arte at Yale and Montclair Universities.

Her performances have been presented at the Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo), the Venice Biennale, and the Centre Pompidou‑IRCAM (Paris), among others. She is also active as a film and theater critic.

Stefano Savastano. Physicist, Theater Performer, and Clown.

He comes from a background in scientific research, a field in which he has published studies in Cosmology and Gravitational Physics.

In recent years, he has expanded his personal research toward theater and the performing arts. The common thread is the exploration of new, unknown spaces, off the map, where one can mirror oneself and question what exists.

He deeply believes in the potential that arises from the meeting of scientific knowledge and artistic attitude, drawing from the universality of human and cosmic phenomena to unveil their hidden poetry.