CHIARA BERSANI

GENTLE UNICORN

for a limited number of spectators

ph_Alice Brazzit
  • 26 November 2019 - 19:30 Stage Teatro Comunale - No subscription
  • 26 November 2019 - 21:30 Stage Teatro Comunale - No subscription
conception, creation, action

Chiara Bersani

music

Fra De Isabella

production Associazione Culturale Corpoceleste_C.C.00#
co-production Santarcangelo Festival, CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa)
with the support of PoesieSposa creazione realizzata presso le residenze artistiche Centrale FIES (Dro, Trento), Graner (Barcellona), Carrozzerie | N.o.T. (Roma), Gender Bender Festival (Bologna), CapoTrave/Kilowatt (Sansepolcro).

Chiara Bersani is one of the 7 artists supported, for 2018, by the project: ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche azione della Rete Anticorpi XL – Network Giovane Danza d’Autore Progetto
in collaboration con LST – Ferrara

Performance running time 40 minuti circa

“What happens if a figure with mythological and yet orphaned features of a myth appears in the collective imagination
that reasons and describes its existence? A symbol is born. Fragile. Uprooted. A perfect sacrificial victim for anyone wanting to fill it with meanings. Thus the Unicorn has changed over the centuries form, fathers and meanings,
to become a contemporary pop icon. The Unicorn, a creature without a homeland and without history, has been used and abused by humans, deprived of the right to speak. My wish now, is to compensate it for the injustices it has suffered. I want to give it a story, a love, a choice … ”

Chiara Bersani