Vanessa Mattei Scarpaccini,
born in Cortona in 2004, is a young Italian-Polish dancer.
Her delicate research focuses on the gifts that body offers to space, to time, and to their rhythms. She pays careful attention to the state the body inhabits. Through an extremely receptive and available body, she composes.
The project she proposes is a contemporary dance solo that, starting from an autobiographical device, finds concreteness in an analogy that has always characterized her days: it is named after a butterfly called Vanessa io.

Vanessa io is found in the temperate regions of Europe and Asia.
She frequents woods and gardens, fluttering from March to October.
Vanessa is also my name.
A study about the sweetness of remembering.
The limbs gather in small acts of resistance against melting into the rituals of hiding and escaping. Space is moved and stirred as the autobiographical pretext becomes body. This is simply an act of gratitude for that little me who will always be a great part of me.