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Chiara Bersani

Sottobosco
Women and Children First
  • Thu 13.03
    20:30 - 21:20
    Minardschouwburg, Gent
    Romain Deconinckplein 2
    Tickets
  • Fri 14.03
    20:30 - 21:20
    Minardschouwburg, Gent
    Romain Deconinckplein 2
    Tickets

Boswandeling met mensen met een beperking

Italian choreographer Chiara Bersani and her performers invite you into the undergrowth of an imaginary forest. Are they lost or has someone left them behind? Or did the forest grow up around them one day? In this mysterious habitat they move in tandem with the light and the sound: unpredictable, trembling and fluid. How does a body that cannot walk dance?

For her new creation Sottobosco, Bersani organises workshops for people with a physical disability. At each playground, she and a group of local performers investigate how their bodies can coexist in and with nature. A new step in Bersani’s artistic exploration of the politics of the body.

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"A touching situation of timid but poignant movements of people who recognise something in each other."

Theaterkrant

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 - 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 - Logistics 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 (Ljubljana, 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 (Trondheim, NO), DansIT (Trondheim, NO), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts-de-France (Roubaix, FR), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER vzw / Arts Centre VIERNULVIER (Ghent, 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 Programme of the European Union (Santarcangelo di Romagna, ITA), Skånes Dansteater (Malmö, SE), IntercettAzioni - Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia (Milan, ITA) 

Project Winner: 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: Officine Papage - Teatro dei Coraggiosi (Pomarance, ITA), Teatro delle Commedie (Livorno, ITA), Teatro Popolare d’Arte (Lastra a Signa, ITA).