Falling Forward

Restituzione pubblica del workshop per professionisti con Chiara Bersani

Villa Ciani

Past event

12 June 2026

14:30

Falling Forward

Restituzione pubblica del workshop per professionisti con Chiara Bersani

Villa Ciani

Past event

12 June 2026

14:30

Public presentation of the workshop for professional dancers with and without disabilities, held from 10 to 12 June under the guidance of Chiara Bersani.

The workshop will conclude with a public sharing session, emerging from the research and practice undertaken by the participants alongside Chiara Bersani. Through dance and the relationship between bodies, gestures, presences and resonances will emerge, capable of redefining the stage as a political and sensitive space. The presentation will offer a glimpse into the process experienced during the workshop, highlighting the plurality of bodies, memories and choreographic possibilities that emerged from the collective work.

Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and creator working in the fields of the performing arts, experimental theatre and contemporary dance. Whether as a performer or as a director/choreographer, she moves between different artistic languages and visions. Her work as a performer and creator is based on the concept of the Political Body and on the development of practices aimed at training its presence and action. The ‘manifesto’ work of this research is Gentle Unicorn, a performance featured in the Aerowaves circuit. 
She was awarded the 2018 UBU Prize for best new actress/performer under 35. In 2019, with Gentle Unicorn, she won the Total Theatre Award for dance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Supported by the European project apap – Feminist Future, in 2023 she presented her first solo exhibition, Deserters, at the Kunsthaus in Basel, in collaboration with GAMeC in Bergamo.
In 2025, she received the ANTI Prize for Live (Kuopio, Finland) and was an artist-in-residence at the Triennale Milano Teatro for the three-year period 2025–2027. Her work is supported by MiC – Direzione Generale Spettacolo.

Duration
30' circa