Friday October 31, 8–11PM
secrets by Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini. Performance (40’) at 9PM
Saturday November 1, 12–8PM
Dear Lola & Prisci by Martina Rota. Performance (20’) at 5:30PM
secrets by Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini. Performance (40’) at 7PM
Sunday, November 2, 12–8PM
Open Studio Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini
📍 Cripta747, Via Giovanni Giolitti 32/c, Turin
free entry, 99 seats available
Andrea Bambini and Elena Francalanci, fellows of the IX edition of Cripta747 Residency Programme, present secrets, a performative and curatorial investigation into the unstable nature of memory and the role of emotion in shaping both individual and collective remembrance.
Francalanci, choreographer and performer, and Bambini, composer and pianist, have been collaborating since 2023, performing internationally while co-directing MOLT, a Berlin-based platform for music and visual arts, which will accompany secrets with a curatorial intervention. In their collaborative practice, space, body, and sound continuously affect one another, turning architecture into a living score. Working through an interplay of gesture and sound, and drawing on improvisation, the duo has shaped a dramaturgy in which memory and recollection surface as acts of effort — physical, mental, or emotional.
secrets begins from the idea that every memory carries an unspoken truth, and that remembering itself is a creative act — one that can move between reality and imagination. Conceived as a site-specific performance for Cripta747, the work merges dance, theatre, musical composition, stagecraft, and found playlists into a raw and tactile weave. The artists play with the material textures of the space and the intensity of sound volumes, moving through sequences of fullness and emptiness. Repetition becomes a tool to process the very effort underlying memory as a creative and emotional gesture.
Drawing on pop culture, symbolism, and elements of dramatic exaggeration, Bambini and Francalanci use these as catalysts for images that are both personal and communal, becoming part of our collective memory. In this process of transformation, the duo composes a nuanced score dedicated to the act of remembering — a gesture that preserves even as it reimagines, inviting the audience to reinterpret the present with them.
secrets will be presented on October 31 and November 1, 2025. On the second day, it will be accompanied by Dear Lola & Prisci, a performance by Martina Rota, which places the spoken word at the center of the choreographic action — exploring its poetic resonances, imaginative detours, and, at times, its potential as a salvific gesture. The two performances are conceived to resonate with one another and with the inner and outer spaces of Via Giolitti, amplifying the unstable and collective potential of what repeats and transforms in the very act of repetition. Here, memory and recollection exist in constant exchange — between inside and outside, near and far, real and projected. During opening hours, the space will host a sonic and installative version of secrets.
On November 2, the public is invited to take part in Francalanci and Bambini’s open studio — an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the artists and explore the research developed during their stay in Turin.
Elena Francalanci is an Italian artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work is rooted in classical and post-modern dance, intertwined with visual arts. Often starting from personal or autobiographical narratives, her practice unfolds into performances that merge classical elements with contemporary references, including echoes of pop culture. Her work has been presented at Silent Green (2025), ACUD Galerie (2025), CTM-Vorspiel (2024), Atelier Gardens (2024), Art Biesenthal/Wehrmuehle (2024), Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig (2023), Kleinehumboldtgalerie (2023), Garage Gallery Prague (2023), among others. Since 2023, Elena has been co-founder and curator of the Berlin-based project MOLT.
Andrea Bambini is a composer, pianist, and curator. His works have been released by Berlin-based labels AUT Recordsand Verlag, and the Dutch label Esc.Rec. His projects and collaborations have been reviewed in international outlets such as Monopol, Bandcamp (The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: April 2023), Jazzwise, YYYYMMDD Contemporary, and O Fluxo. His music has been broadcast on Radio3, Radio Popolare, PW-Magazine, Zweikommasieben, Radio Raheem, Radio80000, and AllAboutJazz, and presented in venues including Volksbühne (Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz), Silent Green Kulturquartier, CTM-Vorspiel, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Galerie EIGEN + ART Lab, and Morphine Records Raum. Since 2023, Andrea has been curator of MOLT in Berlin.
Martina Rota (Bergamo, 1995) is a visual and performance artist. She is co-founder of MASSIMO, an independent contemporary art space established in 2019 together with Giulia Parolin and Stefano Galeotti. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the urgencies, desires, and traumas of the body in both personal and collective dimensions. She studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Visual Arts) and continued her training in Italy and across Europe — at SNDO - School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam (2017), the DA.RE course directed by Adriana Borriello in Rome (2018), and the research program “Incubator for Future Choreographers” at C.I.M.D. in Milan (2019–2021), directed by Franca Ferrari.
Founded in January 2023, MOLT aims to build an inclusive cultural community that bridges disciplines and fosters connections among artists and audiences internationally. Its activities focus on events that intertwine cinema, music, visual arts, dance, and performance — offering a space open to experimentation and exchange. Through a curatorial program attentive to diverse languages and perspectives, MOLT reflects the vitality of Berlin’s creative
Cripta747 Residency Programme is supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Regione Piemonte, and Fondazione CRT.
We are pleased to announce Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini as fellows of Cripta747 Residency Programme 2025.
Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini began collaborating in 2023. They use space as a source of inspiration, treating it as a foundation for blending their autobiographical experiences into a language that brings together music and performance art. With backgrounds in dance and piano, they combine their classical training with improvisation and pop culture. Their work explores and reinterprets traditional symbols and everyday gestures, creating performances that evolve between composition and repetition.
Based in Berlin, they are also part of Molt, artists run project focused on performance art, music and visual arts.
Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini will be in Turin from October to December.
For more information, email us at info@cripta747.it
Friday October 31, 8–11PM
secrets by Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini. Performance (40’) at 9PM
Saturday November 1, 12–8PM
Dear Lola & Prisci by Martina Rota. Performance (20’) at 5:30PM
secrets by Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini. Performance (40’) at 7PM
Sunday, November 2, 12–8PM
Open Studio Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini
📍 Cripta747, Via Giovanni Giolitti 32/c, Turin
free entry, 99 seats available
Andrea Bambini and Elena Francalanci, fellows of the IX edition of Cripta747 Residency Programme, present secrets, a performative and curatorial investigation into the unstable nature of memory and the role of emotion in shaping both individual and collective remembrance.
Francalanci, choreographer and performer, and Bambini, composer and pianist, have been collaborating since 2023, performing internationally while co-directing MOLT, a Berlin-based platform for music and visual arts, which will accompany secrets with a curatorial intervention. In their collaborative practice, space, body, and sound continuously affect one another, turning architecture into a living score. Working through an interplay of gesture and sound, and drawing on improvisation, the duo has shaped a dramaturgy in which memory and recollection surface as acts of effort — physical, mental, or emotional.
secrets begins from the idea that every memory carries an unspoken truth, and that remembering itself is a creative act — one that can move between reality and imagination. Conceived as a site-specific performance for Cripta747, the work merges dance, theatre, musical composition, stagecraft, and found playlists into a raw and tactile weave. The artists play with the material textures of the space and the intensity of sound volumes, moving through sequences of fullness and emptiness. Repetition becomes a tool to process the very effort underlying memory as a creative and emotional gesture.
Drawing on pop culture, symbolism, and elements of dramatic exaggeration, Bambini and Francalanci use these as catalysts for images that are both personal and communal, becoming part of our collective memory. In this process of transformation, the duo composes a nuanced score dedicated to the act of remembering — a gesture that preserves even as it reimagines, inviting the audience to reinterpret the present with them.
secrets will be presented on October 31 and November 1, 2025. On the second day, it will be accompanied by Dear Lola & Prisci, a performance by Martina Rota, which places the spoken word at the center of the choreographic action — exploring its poetic resonances, imaginative detours, and, at times, its potential as a salvific gesture. The two performances are conceived to resonate with one another and with the inner and outer spaces of Via Giolitti, amplifying the unstable and collective potential of what repeats and transforms in the very act of repetition. Here, memory and recollection exist in constant exchange — between inside and outside, near and far, real and projected. During opening hours, the space will host a sonic and installative version of secrets.
On November 2, the public is invited to take part in Francalanci and Bambini’s open studio — an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the artists and explore the research developed during their stay in Turin.
Elena Francalanci is an Italian artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work is rooted in classical and post-modern dance, intertwined with visual arts. Often starting from personal or autobiographical narratives, her practice unfolds into performances that merge classical elements with contemporary references, including echoes of pop culture. Her work has been presented at Silent Green (2025), ACUD Galerie (2025), CTM-Vorspiel (2024), Atelier Gardens (2024), Art Biesenthal/Wehrmuehle (2024), Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig (2023), Kleinehumboldtgalerie (2023), Garage Gallery Prague (2023), among others. Since 2023, Elena has been co-founder and curator of the Berlin-based project MOLT.
Andrea Bambini is a composer, pianist, and curator. His works have been released by Berlin-based labels AUT Recordsand Verlag, and the Dutch label Esc.Rec. His projects and collaborations have been reviewed in international outlets such as Monopol, Bandcamp (The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: April 2023), Jazzwise, YYYYMMDD Contemporary, and O Fluxo. His music has been broadcast on Radio3, Radio Popolare, PW-Magazine, Zweikommasieben, Radio Raheem, Radio80000, and AllAboutJazz, and presented in venues including Volksbühne (Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz), Silent Green Kulturquartier, CTM-Vorspiel, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Galerie EIGEN + ART Lab, and Morphine Records Raum. Since 2023, Andrea has been curator of MOLT in Berlin.
Martina Rota (Bergamo, 1995) is a visual and performance artist. She is co-founder of MASSIMO, an independent contemporary art space established in 2019 together with Giulia Parolin and Stefano Galeotti. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the urgencies, desires, and traumas of the body in both personal and collective dimensions. She studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Visual Arts) and continued her training in Italy and across Europe — at SNDO - School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam (2017), the DA.RE course directed by Adriana Borriello in Rome (2018), and the research program “Incubator for Future Choreographers” at C.I.M.D. in Milan (2019–2021), directed by Franca Ferrari.
Founded in January 2023, MOLT aims to build an inclusive cultural community that bridges disciplines and fosters connections among artists and audiences internationally. Its activities focus on events that intertwine cinema, music, visual arts, dance, and performance — offering a space open to experimentation and exchange. Through a curatorial program attentive to diverse languages and perspectives, MOLT reflects the vitality of Berlin’s creative
Cripta747 Residency Programme is supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Regione Piemonte, and Fondazione CRT.
We are pleased to announce Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini as fellows of Cripta747 Residency Programme 2025.
Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini began collaborating in 2023. They use space as a source of inspiration, treating it as a foundation for blending their autobiographical experiences into a language that brings together music and performance art. With backgrounds in dance and piano, they combine their classical training with improvisation and pop culture. Their work explores and reinterprets traditional symbols and everyday gestures, creating performances that evolve between composition and repetition.
Based in Berlin, they are also part of Molt, artists run project focused on performance art, music and visual arts.
Elena Francalanci and Andrea Bambini will be in Turin from October to December.
For more information, email us at info@cripta747.it