It is a site-specific performance with Silvia Calderoni (and surprise guests), designed to inhabit the spaces of the exhibition FUTURE IN THE PAST—inaugurated at the City Museum on March 15—and dedicated to the new Motus Digital Archive, which collects materials from 35 years of theatrical adventures. An atlas-like exhibition that, from the viscosity of the past, fertilizes the future—as we’ve defined it—choosing to set up the new wing of the museum as a surprising, non-chronological itinerary. The passage from one room to another—through a corridor/tunnel of words that reawaken the ghostly voices of the many actors and actresses who have crossed Motus’ stages—gives life to a mnemonic nebula where the boundaries, beginnings, and endings of individual performances no longer make sense, because everything is part of one great 35-year-long work.

In relation to this fluid positioning, which transforms the exhibition into an autonomous artistic object, Silvia Calderoni will inhabit the space, staging a “Dadaist and furious” montage with a kaleidoscopic dramaturgy: a journey through time and space, through the reenactment of fragments from the many scripts and director’s notebooks on display, as if gliding on her mythical roller skates or driving Pasolini’s car, exhibited in the museum garden.

Bio 

Silvia Calderoni, actress, performer and author who trained with Teatro della Valdoca before joining Motus in 2006. Star of MDLSX (co-authored with Daniela Nicolò) and Valdoca’s Enigma. Requiem per Pinocchio. Ubu Prize winner (2009, best actress under 30). Film work includes La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser (Manuli, 2012) and Moonbird (Martino, 2022). With Ilenia Caleo, she develops performative research projects like KISS and The Future is now. Artistic consultant for Sherocco Festival and co-curator of Rome’s Short Theatre (2025-2027).

Credits 

A project by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande
With Silvia Calderoni (and special guests)

Production by Motus

The exhibition is realized with the collaboration of Beatrice Ottaviani
and co-curated by Ilaria Mancia

Installation by Lucia Mussoni and Damiano Bagli
Production by Dea Vodopi
In collaboration with Eduard Popescu
Graphics by Federico Magli
Press office by UC Studio

FUTURE IN THE PAST is the exhibition dedicated to the Motus Archive, realized thanks to the PNRR TOCC call, funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, “Digital Transition of Cultural and Creative Organizations,” in collaboration with the Gambalunga Library of Rimini, the support of the Municipality of Rimini, the technical partner 4Science SPA, and the backing of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo.
A special thanks to the archivist Mara Sorrentino, who, in over a year of work, cataloged the exploded materials, now visible on the portal.

Duration 

60′

Language/Subtitles 

Italian/ live English translation 

Tickets

Free

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