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art residency project, based on rural practises. DESCRIPTION

The Stone Oven House is an art residence, based on rural practises in a post-industrial context.

Aimed at combining social and environmental harmony, we are establishing an experimental platform for life and creation. The activities in residence follow the principles of: sustainability and shareconomy. The guests of the residence are invited to reflect on the idea that the village is the city of the future: a place where people work online and live in nature, growing their own vegetables. One of the main functional elements of the residence is a large stone oven, used to bake food and to dispose of the accomplished art, in order to generate the heat for the oven itself. Art works that are not suitable to be burnt in the stone oven, are reused to satisfy utilitarian needs. Contemporary art, as a reflection of today’s society, embodies the laws of the art market: artistic overproduction does not match consumer enjoyment. So the art recycling in the Stone Oven House enters this scenario, as a symbolic protest against the conventional dynamics of the contemporary market and as a matter for reflection on production and consumption, including art. Therefore, the inevitability of art recycling gives artists freedom to create art regardless of its placement on the art market shelves. Each activity in residence then tries to respect the sustainability reasoning: from the creation of art to its fruition, from the procurement of food to interaction with the local community. We dedicate, moreover, particular attention to the improvement of offline interactions, crucial for a good and healthy community. We invite to the Stone Oven House both artists and non artists with the mission to bring them together in their lives and professions. We want it to be a pleasant workplace for artists and an unconventional residence for the other guests. Learn more: http://balovinandbeccato.info/en/en-residencyproject/

25/09/2026

Today we’d like to introduce you to Natasha Pirogova, who will be leading the dance and photography workshop with Paola Mongelli in October. She has already run some workshops here at Stone Oven House which were very well received, and we can’t wait to see her at work here.

A dancer, artist, movement and dance therapist, movement scholar and guide, she has been supporting people on journeys of transformation through the body, dance and presence for over thirty years.

Born in Russia, she has lived in Italy for more than thirty years, combining contemplative depth and aesthetic sensitivity in a personal and distinctive style of work.

She is the creator of the ‘La Danza di Natasha’ method, presented in the book of the same name, in which the body becomes a path to knowledge, freedom and personal truth.

Info about the workshop in bio.
Танец Наташи • Италия

23/09/2026

This October, Paola Mongelli Paola Mongelli returns to Stone Oven House to lead a residential workshop together with Natasha Pirogova, exploring the meeting point between photography, body and dance.

Paola is a visual artist and photographer who lives and works in the same territory where Stone Oven House is based. Her work approaches photography not only as a way of making images, but as a practice of seeing: observing, listening, and entering into a deeper relationship with what surrounds us and with what happens within us.

Her artistic practice brings together research, education of the gaze and shared creative processes. She invites people to slow down, look more carefully, and let the body become part of the creative process.

For us, this is a special return. Paola has already been part of Stone Oven House with her exhibition Kaleidos Time and with a residential photography workshop she led here in the past.

The images we are sharing come from those moments: fragments of the exhibition and of the workshop, traces of a work that moved through the house, its spaces, the people and the landscape around us.

From 23 to 25 October, Paola and Natasha will guide a new journey through vision, movement and presence. Info and registration in bio.

Workshop ArtistResidency ValPellice

13/09/2026

This year, we decided to move our artistic residencies outside the high season and keep summer mostly for holiday guests.

But somehow, artists kept finding us anyway.

Among the people who came through Airbnb, Booking or simply found us directly, there were many creative and interesting people.

Koen came from Belgium as a guest — a PE teacher, and, as we soon discovered, also a very good photographer.

He shared with us these photographs taken at Stone Oven House and around the valley.

It was one of the nicest surprises of this summer: even without organizing residencies, creativity remained very much part of the house.

Photos:

06/09/2026

From 23 to 25 October, Stone Oven House will host The Dancing Body, the Seeing Body — a residential workshop exploring the meeting point between dance and photography.

The workshop will be led by Paola Mongelli, visual artist and photographer, and Natasha Pirogova, dancer and movement therapist.

Both are longtime friends of Stone Oven House and have led workshops here before: Paola on photography, and Natasha on the body, dance and even voice. They also became friends here — in the house with the oven — and now return for their first workshop together.

Three days dedicated to the relationship between body, image and space: seeing through movement and allowing what we see to become movement again.

No dance experience is required, and you don’t need a professional camera — a smartphone is perfectly fine.

The programme includes the workshop, full-board accommodation and a sauna session. As always at Stone Oven House, we will live, practise and eat together in a real home among the mountains of Val Pellice.

📅 23–25 October 2026
📍 Stone Oven House, Rorà, Italy
🎟 Workshop: €220
Early booking before 20 September: €200
🏡 Full-board accommodation: from €180, depending on the room type.

Full programme and registration:
https://natashapirogova.com/visione

03/08/2026

From today Natasha Pirogova Танец Наташи - Италия - Россия will be in residence with us in Rorà.

Natasha works through the body, movement and dance, creating spaces where people can feel more alive, free and authentic. Her sessions are not simply about learning steps or techniques: she invites participants to listen to their bodies, allow their own personal movement to emerge, and rediscover presence, sensitivity and courage.

During her residency, it will be possible to dance with her every morning for about one hour, through gentle movement and dance sessions: a way to awaken the body.

It will also be possible to book individual sessions for those who would like to dedicate some more intimate and personal time to themselves.

To take part in the morning dance sessions, with admission by voluntary contribution, please write to:

[email protected]

To book an individual session with Natasha, with times and fees to be agreed directly with her:

[email protected]
+39 338 966 2849

23/07/2026

TO THE SOURCE OF ETERNAL YOUTH
September 10–14, 2026

Not every retreat is about escaping life. Some help you return to it differently.

This September, Stone Oven House will host an intimate retreat with Igor Grishin — Go Master, martial arts teacher, and creator of the Living Legs movement method. After being advised to undergo knee replacement surgery, he chose a different path, dedicating years to exploring the body’s natural capacity for recovery. That personal journey became the foundation of a unique practice combining movement, awareness, and strategic thinking.

Spend five days in a small group in the Italian Alps: movement practice, the game of Go, walks through ancient chestnut forests, swims in crystal-clear mountain streams, homemade Italian food, and long evenings around a centuries-old stone oven.

This is not an intensive course or a wellness escape. It is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with your body, and experience a different rhythm of living, where nature, meaningful conversation, and attentive movement become part of the practice itself.

September 10–14, 2026
Stone Oven House · Rorà · Italian Alps
Language: russian

More information:
https://goama.ru/retrit-mastera-go-v-italii/

17/07/2026

Tomorrow from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., we’re opening the doors of the Stone Oven House studios so you can meet the artists currently in residence.

Rahn Marion Rahn Marion is an interdisciplinary artist from Memphis, Tennessee. Through oil painting and watercolor, his work explores the relationship between identity, spirituality, community, and belonging.
Raised in the religious context of the Southern United States, Rahn has gradually transformed his artistic practice into his own form of spiritual exploration. During his residency at Rorà, he is focusing primarily on landscape painting.

Joining him will be musician Evgeny Shishenkov Evgeny Shishenkov who will present a short jazz and improvisation performance together with our singer guest Stefano Lenzi.

Afterward, those who wish may stay for a convivial dinner. The dinner is reserved for members of the association.
Membership card and reservation required.

11/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Rorà for the screening of the first film in the ‘Che Cine a Rorà’ film series. The film was *Ma Tèrra* by Andrea Fantino, shot in the Stura Valley, not too far from us, which explores the Occitan language and its speakers – and we enjoyed it. Thank you to the Unione Montana Valle Stura for sharing the film, and thank you to the director for his work. We hope to meet him in person on another occasion.

For this film series, we have tried to choose films that tell stories which also resonate with
Rorà, but which haven’t necessarily been produced geographically close to us.

Unione Montana Valle Stura
Andrea Fantino

Follow us to find out about the upcoming films.

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Indirizzo

Via Maestra 4, Rorá
Piemonte
10060

Telefono

+393405611840

Sito Web

http://Stoneovenhouse.com/

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