“Not Found” | Apriamo le gabbie 2025 – Human Form and Dance | Milan, November 7–16, 2025

On November 16, Not Found takes the stage at PACTA Salone in Milan, concluding the festival “Apriamo le gabbie 2025 – Human Form and Dance”, dedicated to exploring the body as both an ancestral and contemporary language.

Created and performed by Aws Al Zubaidi, Marco Valerio Montesano, and Emerson Damian Vergel as part of the Master of Arts in Theatre program at Accademia Teatro Dimitri, the piece emerges as an exploration of the inner void that each of us encounters when facing life’s greater questions. A void that is not absence, but a fertile space for listening, doubt, and rebirth.

In Not Found, the body becomes a tool for inquiry and vulnerability. Through suspended gestures and invisible connections, the performers guide the audience on an intimate and collective journey, where absence turns into presence and uncertainty into possibility.

A final act that closes the festival with the strength of silence and the power of movement.