The work is based on the On Urgency methodology, developed by Daniela Marcozzi and Marcozzi Contemporary Theater, which consists of collecting testimonies and anonymous questionnaires about the urges of people and territories, subsequently translated into performance languages: movement, voice, scenic action, durational performance, and poetic storytelling.

The workshop is divided into three main areas of work:

1. Physical and Vocal Training – Tap into Urgency
Through physical and vocal practices and guided improvisations, participants will enter a performance state based on dynamic presence and listening to the impulse. The training draws inspiration from the work of Jerzy Grotowski and the practices developed by Daniela Marcozzi over years of artistic research. The body will be explored as a place of perception, transformation, and access to impulsive energy, working on the relationship between movement, voice, emotion, and the external environment.

2. Embodiment of Urges
The second phase of the work will be dedicated to the embodiment of the urges collected through the surveys. The responses will be explored through performance techniques that allow the transformation of images, words, emotions, and tensions into shared scenic material. The goal will be to understand how an individual urge can resonate with broader dimensions — cultural, ecological, political — and become a collective experience.

3. Performance Composition
In the final phase, participants will develop individual or collective actions, scenes, and compositions starting from the material that emerged during the workshop. The composition will be built in dialogue with the landscape of the Po River and with the locations chosen for the final presentation.

Creation of the site-specific performance starting from the distribution of surveys to the community.
A central part of the project consists of collecting anonymous surveys aimed at the community. Through questions dedicated to the theme of urgency, participants will collect testimonies, images, desires, fears, and reflections from the people of the territory and from their own reference communities. The collected responses will constitute the dramaturgical and performative material of the work. Through the On Urgency methodology, people’s words will be transformed into movement, voice, performance actions, and site-specific compositions.

The final performance will develop in two different locations connected to the Po River territory and the festival activities. The locations will be defined later, based on the festival logistics and the contents emerged from the surveys. The intention is to work in two different contexts: one more anthropized and one more natural, both in relation to water and the river landscape.

Who this workshop is for
To performing artists, musicians, researchers, interdisciplinary artists, practitioners of somatic disciplines, and all people interested in the relationship between body, ecology, community, and performance.