© Alice Brazzit
SOTTOBOSCO
A group of children with disabilities get lost in the woods. Or maybe they were abandoned. Maybe they were chasing a love. Perhaps the woods, one day, just grew around them. Our present tells us: things happen. They surprise us, and all we have to do is to figure out if we can survive them or not.
Credits
Creation / action / text Chiara Bersani
Action 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
Production corpoceleste
Co – production Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition. Tandem “Connecting Dots” L’Arboreto Teatro Dimora – Mondaino (ITA), Sardegna Teatro (Cagliari, ITA), Bunker (Ljubliana, Slovenia) supported 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), Santarcangelo 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 collaboration with Teatro Metastasio, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, Virgilio Sieni Danza, Fabbrica Europa. Creative residency in Officine Papage – Teatro dei Coraggiosi (Pomarance, ITA), Teatro delle Commedie (Livorno, ITA), Teatro Popolare d’Arte (Lastra a Signa, ITA)
Chiara Bersani
Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and author active in the field of performing arts, research theater and contemporary dance. As an interpreter and as a director / choreographer moves through different languages and visions. Her works, presented in international circuits, are born as creations in dialogue with spaces of different nature and are mainly aimed at a “neighbor” to the scene.
Her research as an interpreter and author is based on the concept of the “Political Body” and the creation of practices aimed at training its presence and action. The “manifest” work of this research is Gentle Unicorn, a performance included in the Aerowaves platform.
For the rigor in embodying this study she is awarded the UBU Award for best new actress / performer under 35 for 2018.
In August 2019, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gentle Unicorn and Chiara Bersani won the first prize in the dance category of the Total Theater Awards.
Chiara Bersani is an artist of apap – Advancing Performing arts project – Feminist Future, a project co-funded by the Creativnde Europe Programme of the European Union, until 2024.