A group of children with disabilities get lost in the forest. Or maybe they were abandoned. Maybe they were following love. Maybe the forest simply grew around them. What could happen? What would happen with their bodies? With their hearts? The wheelchairs and the crutches? What will their eyes look upon? What language will they talk? And who will find them, how would he approach them? Can he do it? He will know how to ask permission? 

Sottobosco creates an environment where impromptu groups of people with disabilities can meet and become a community. 

Why you should see it ➜ “Chiara Bersani is as powerful on stage as one rarely manages. She is an author, an actress, a ballerina and a performer. Her glance on the world and art can be felt as she uses her body as a political work”.

CREDITS

Creation / Texts Chiara Bersani 
Performers Chiara Bersani, Elena Sgarbossa 
Sound dramaturgy Lemmo 
Lighting, set design, and technical direction Valeria Foti
Costumes Ettore Lombardi  
Dramaturgy Chiara Bersani, Giulia Traversi  
Advice and external eye Marco D’Agostin  
Assistant Simone Chiacchiararelli 
Workshop production and management Chiara Boitani   
Promotion, management, booking Giulia Traversi 
Communication and press kit Dalila D’Amico 
Video and photos Alice Brazzit
Logistics, organisation, production 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, SI) supported by Creative Europe, Theaterfestival Boulevard (‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL), Carreau du Temple – Cultural and Sports Institute of the City of Paris (Paris, FR), Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, DE), Tanzt Im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, DE), Rosendal Teater (Trondehim, NO), DansIT (Trondehim, NO), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts–de-France (Roubaix, FR), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER vzw / Arts Centre VIERNULVIER (Ghent, BE), Snaporazverein, (Samedan, CH), SPIELART Theater Festival (Munich, DE), Fuorimargine Dance Production Center (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), Santarcangelo Festival, European project BE PART co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union (Santarcangelo di Romagna, ITA), Skånes Dansteater (Malmö, SE), Homo Novus Festival International Festival of Contemporary Theatre (Riga, LV), IntercettAzioni – Artistic Residency Centre of Lombardy (Milan, ITA).    

Winner of Toscana Terra Accogliente project, R.A.T. Residenze Artistiche Toscane, in collaboration with Teatro Metastasio, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, Centro di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni, Fabbrica Europa. Creative residencies at Officine Papage – Teatro dei Coraggiosi (Pomarance, ITA), Teatro delle Commedie (Livorno, ITA), Teatro Popolare d’Arte (Lastra a Signa, ITA)

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