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Sottobosco

Chiara Bersani / corpoceleste c.c.0.0#
Italia

7th February 25 • h. 8.30 pm

Spazio Rossellini

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There will be a sky above our heads, inaccessible and horizontal, in which sounds and lights will move with the same inexorable gait as the expanding universe. There will be an undergrowth that will live under that sky and will be inhabited by the performers, by the audience, by other sounds and other lights that will live trembling like bodies and plants. What lies between the sky and the undergrowth we do not yet know. (Chiara Bersani)

Sottobosco is the latest creation by artist Chiara Bersani, an imaginative environment in which impromptu groups of people with disabilities become a community. The performance is inspired by an image: A group of boys and girls with disabilities are lost in the woods. Maybe they were abandoned. Perhaps they were chasing a love. Perhaps the forest simply grew up around them one day. What could happen? What will become of their bodies, their hearts, their prams and crutches? What will their eyes look at? What language will they speak? And how will those who find them, by chance or desire, approach them? Can he do it? Will he be able to ask permission? 

The sound dimension performed live by the musician Lemmo refers to the multiform and multidimensional path that a meridian can take, from the north pole to the south pole. Micro sounds, tiny worlds that inhabit these macro forms, details that build a living, listening spatial environment in continuous transformation.

Chiara Bersani is an Italian performing artist and choreographer exploring the politics of the body and how the images we create interact with society’s narratives. Her research is based on the concept of the “Political Body” and the creation of practices aimed at training its presence and action. As an activist Chiara works on the accessibility of disabled artists in the performing arts scene. Her "manifesto" work of this research is Gentle Unicorn, a performance included in the Aerowaves circuit. In 2018 she won the Ubu Award as best performer under 35. Her new creation, Sottobosco (undergrowth) explores the relationship between disabled bodies and natural landscapes. Chiara Bersani is an artist of apap – Ad-vancing Performing arts project – Feminist Future, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Pro-gramme of the European Union, until 2024.

creation/ text Chiara Bersani

performer Chiara Bersani, Elena Sgarbossa

sound dramaturgy Lemmo

lighting and set designer / technical director Valeria Foti

costume designer Ettore Lombardi

dramaturgy Chiara Bersani, Giulia Traversi

artistic advice Marco D’Agostin

assistant and touring Simone Chiacchiararelli

care and production for workshop Chiara Boitani

promotion, curatorship, booking Giulia Traversi

communication and press kit Dalila D’Amico

Video and photos Alice Brazzit

logistic and organization, producer Eleonora Cavallo

administration Chiara Fava

production corpoceleste c.c.0.0#

co - production: Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition. Tandem “Connecting Dots” L’Arboreto Teatro Dimora - Mondaino (ITA), Sardegna Teatro (Cagliari, ITA), Bunker (Ljubliana, Slovenia) sup-ported by Creative Europe; Theaterfestival Boulevard (s-Hertogenbosch, NL), Carreau du Temple Etablissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de Paris (Paris, FR); Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, DE); Tanzt Im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, BE); Rosendal Teater (Trondehim, NO); DansIT (Trondheim, NO); Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts–de-France (Roubaix, FR); Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER vzw / Arts Centre VIERNULVIER (Gent, BE); Snaporazverein, (Samaden, CH); SPIELART Theaterfestival (Munich, DE); Fuorimargine Centro di produzione della Danza (Cagliari, ITA). Apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

with the support of MiC – DIREZIONE GENERALE SPETTACOLO (ITA); Centrale Fies (Dro, ITA), Homo Novus Festival International Festival of Contemporary Theatre (Riga, LV); Santarcange-lo Festival project included in the European project BE PART co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union (Santarcangelo di Romagna, ITA); Skånes Dansteater (Malmö, SE); IntercettAzioni - Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia (Milan, ITA).

project winner of Toscana Terra Accogliente, a project by R.A.T. Residenze Artistiche Toscane, in col-laboration with Teatro Metastasio, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, Virgilio Sieni Danza, Fabbrica Eu-ropa. Creative residency in Officine Papage - Teatro dei Coraggiosi (Pomarance, ITA), Teatro delle Commedie (Livorno, ITA), Teatro Popolare d’Arte (Lastra a Signa, ITA) 

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