Chiara Bersani: SOTTOBOSCO
performance
(Italy, Slovenia)
A group of children with disabilities gets 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.
Chiara Bersani takes her audience and performers on a journey into the underwood of an imaginary forest. In this mysterious environment, sounds and gestures gradually evolve into an independent language. The work builds upon workshops with persons with motor disability. In collaboration with these participants, Bersani investigates how bodies with disabilities can coexist with nature. She continues her in-depth, artistic interrogation of the politics of the body, and asks how self-constructed images interact with social narratives – how bodies dance.
Sottobosco is co-produced by Bunker through an international project Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition that aims to connect Europe’s peripheries through joint artistic actions.
50 minutes
Creation, action, text: Chiara Bersani
Action: Elena Sgarbossa
Sound, dramaturgy advice: Lemmo
Lighting and set designer, technical director: Valeria Foti
Costume designer: Ettore Lombardi
Dramaturgy: Chiara Bersani, Giulia Traversi
Artistic advice: Marco D’Agostin
Workshop participants: Tina Cerk, Marja Koren, Mija Pungeršič, Barbara Šamperl, Urša Urbančič
Assistant and touring: Simone Chiachiararelli
Care and production for workshop: Chiara Boitani
Promotion, curatorship, booking: Giulia Traversi
Communication and press: Dalila D’Amico
Video and photos: Alice Brazzit
Logistic, organization, production: Eleonora Cavallo
Administration: Chiara Fava
Local producer: Anja Vrhovšek
Production support: Lea Kukovičič
Lighting technitian: Andrej Petrovčič
Technical support: Janko Oven, Martin Podrzavnik, Igor Remeta, Duško Pušica
Production: corpoceleste c.c.0.0#
Co-production: Sardegna Teatro, Bunker, Ljubljana, L’Arboreto Teatro Dimora
Supported by: Evropska unija – program Ustvarjalna Evropa: Kultura, Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition, Muzej za sodobno umetnost Metelkova, Ministrstvo za kulture RS, Mestna občina Ljubljana
Photo by: Alessandro Sala
