Production Details / Press Releases
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 interrogationof the politics of the body, and asks how self-constructed images interact with social narratives – how bodies dance.
[Source: tanzimaugust.de]
TFB Nr. 1793
Cast & Credits
By and with: Chiara Bersani, Elena Sgarboss, Lemmo
Live Sound & Dramaturgical Advice: Lemmo
Scenography, Lighting Design & Technical Direction: Valeria Foti
Costume Design: Ettore Lombardi
Dramaturgy: Chiara Bersani, Giulia Traversi
Artistic Advice: Marco D’Agostin
Assistant & Touring Management: Simone Chiachiararelli
Production Workshop: Chiara Boitani
Communication & Press Relations: Dalila D’Amico
Promotion & Curatorship: Giulia Traversi
Production Management: Eleonora Cavallo
Administration: Chiara Fava
Stage (HAU): Mohammad Nazari und Şenol Şentürk
Light (HAU): Fabian Boldt, Klaus Dust und Claes Schwennen
Video (HAU): Marius Bratoveanu
Sound (HAU): Thorsten Hoppe
Costumes (HAU): Viktoria Posacec
Production: corpoceleste c.c.0.0#
Co-production: Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition. Tandem ‘Connecting Dots’ L’Arboreto Teatro Dimora – Mondainno, Sardegna Teatro, Bunker Ljubliana, supported by Creative Europe, Theaterfestival Boulevard, Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Carreau du Temple Etablissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de Paris, tanzhaus nrw, Rosendal Teater, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER vzw / Arts Centre VIERNULVIER, Snaporazverein, SPIELART Festival, Centrale Fies, Fuorimargine centro di produzione della danza
Supported by: MiC – DIREZIONE GENERALE SPETTACOLO, Homo Novus Festival, Santarcangelo Festival project as part of BE PART. Project winner of Toscana Terra Accogliente.
Residencies: Officine Papage –Teatro dei Coraggiosi, Teatro delle Commedie, Teatro Popolare d’Arte
From 2020–2024, Chiara Bersani is supported by apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project cofunded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Tanz im August 2023
Artistic Director: Ricardo Carmona
Executive Producer Festival: Stefan Nagel
Producer & Dramaturge: Alina Lauer
Production und Team Assistance: Luzie Barzen
Dramaturgical Advisor: Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi
Production Associates: Sujmo Akcali, Arantxa Ciafrino, Vivien Hohnholz, Aki Kimura, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Ekaterina Voronova, Benze C. Werner
Technical Director Festival: Ingo Ruggenthaler
Tanz im August is a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin
Tickets: +49 (0)30 259 004 27
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)