SOTTOBOSCO

Chiara Bersani | IT

SOTTOBOSCO's starting point was when Italian choreographer Chiara Bersani was in a forest when a lockdown was declared. There she reflected on the accessibility of nature for people with a physical impairments. Bersani, who is confined to a wheelchair herself, has a different access to nature than the fellow artists with whom she was there and for whom 'back to nature' means something different than to her. How could people with disabilities survive in a forest? Or, should we imagine 'nature' differently? SOTTOBOSCO, undergrowth, is her answer to that question.

Location Verkadefabriek/Grote Zaal

Running time 50 min.

Genre Theatre, dance

A group of children with a disability gets lost in the woods. Or perhaps, they have been abandoned. Perhaps the forest, one day, simply grew around it. What could happen? What will become of their bodies? Their hearts, wheelchairs and crutches? What will their eyes look at? What language will they speak? And whoever happens to find them, how would they approach them? Based on these questions, Chiara Bersani creates an impressive agile performance together with experience experts with a mobile disability.

Chiara Bersani returns to Boulevard with her performance SOTTOBOSCO. She previously presented her work on Boulevard: Seeking Unicorns in 2019 and The Whales Song in 2021.

SOTTOBOSCO is part of Lijn73, in which we work with makers who have or want to develop a special commitment to the city. This year these makers also seek out specific groups as audiences or co-makers in projects. This way Theaterfestival Boulevard continues to delve into and connect with the city and its inhabitants.

Workshop

A few days prior to the performance, Bersani enters into a collaborative process with experts by experience - people with a physical disability - from Den Bosch and the surrounding area. Are you interested in participating in this workshop or would you like to inform someone about this?
Read here for more information and registration.

SOTTOBOSCO by Chiara Bersani will premiere on Sunday the 6th of August at 19:00h.

This project takes place in the frame of the Feminist Futures Festival which is part of the apap - Feminist Futures, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Combitickets

You can buy a combiticket for this performance in combination with Louis Janssens - Desire on Sunday 6 August.

Click here to buy this combiticket.

Credits

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
Assistant and touring Simone Chiachiararelli
Care and production for workshop Chiara Boitani
Promotion, curatorship, booking Giulia Traversi
Communication and press kit Dalila D’Amico
Logistic and organization, producer Eleonora Cavallo
Administration Chiara Fava
Production corpoceleste c.c.0.0#
Photo Giulia Agostini
Painting Enrico Pantani

Coproduction Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition. Tandem “Connecting Dots” L’Arboreto Teatro Dimora - Mondainno (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), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts–de-France (FR), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER vzw / Arts Centre VIERNULVIER, (Gent, BE), Snaporazverein, Samaden (CH), SPIELART Theater Festival (Munich, DE) , Centrale Fies (Dro, ITA), Fuorimargine Sardegna Teatro (Cagliari, ITA).

With the support of MiC – DIREZIONE GENERALE SPETTACOLO (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) From 2020-2024, Chiara Bersani is supported by apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project cofunded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.