The first two works to emerge from a study on participatory dramaturgy resulting from the call Indagine Milano, with the citizens from four outlying districts of Milan, are staged at the Teatro Grassi with the performances Sogni Zero by Virginia Landi and Ida Treggiari and Arcipelago by Pablo Tapia Leyton.

Is there still a place for people that is not subject to market logic? This is the question that lies at the heart of Sogni Zero, a participatory theatre project involving the residents of the Niguarda district in Milan. Sogni Zero sees sleep as a niche of resistance against capital, as it is the only remaining place in human existence that is not exploited for profit. Unconscious dreams are transformed into moments of creativity that are capable, perhaps, of projecting us towards an alternative late-capitalism scenario. Is it possible to restore sleep’s potential for revolution?
The company is comprised of Virginia Landi and Ida Treggiari, both theatrical directors. Landi graduated in Visual Arts and Theatre at the IUAV University in Venice, while Treggiari graduated as an actress at the Teatro Arsenale in Milan.  They met while attending the Civic School of Theatre of the Teatro Paolo Grassi, where they both graduated in directing in 2017. During their studies, they discovered their shared interest in participatory theatre, and in 2018 they formed the YAH! Collective together with a number of companions from the academy. Landi and Treggiari are responsible for artistic direction, carrying forward processes of observation on the geography of memory. There theatrical work centres on exchanges with communities, places and memories, experienced from the viewpoint of outsiders.

Arcipelago is the transformation of places of memory, pleasure and congregation that belong to our districts, through a process of mapping that presents them as ecosystems, natural landscapes and possible futures. The work on the district of Giambellino-Lorenteggio is the initial universe of the stories. The first steps are determined by the free participation of five performers; trust, encounter and positivity shape the archipelago.
Pablo Tapia Leyton, a Chilean artist with more than 15 years of dance career behind her, has been living in Italy since 2014, working as a performer for Enzo Cosimi, Daniele Ninarello, Jerome Bel, and collaborating with Fattoria Vittadini, Eko Danza, T.I.D.A, Opera Bianco, Balletto di Roma and Cié twain. He teaches on the professional three-year dance course at the Balletto di Roma under the director, Roberto Casarotto. Since 2021 he has been teaching at the Accademia Internazionale Di Teatro in Rome (AFAM). As well as Indagine Milano, as a writer he has won a number of calls for tender over the past year, including the call organised by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Essen-Germany, with the project Sevenproject.