Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door, Or has it Feathers, like a Bird, Or Billows, like a Shore. (Emily Elizabeth Dickinson)
A group of disabled children gets lost in the woods. Or maybe they were abandoned. Maybe they were chasing a love. Maybe the woods, one day, simply grew all around them. What could happen? What will become of their bodies? Of their hearts? Of wheeling chairs and crutches? What will their eyes look at? What language will they speak? And those who either happen or wish to find them, how should they approach them? Can they do it? Will they know how to ask for permission?
Performer, author, director/choreographer, winner of the 2018 Premio UBU for best actress/performer under 35, in Sottobosco Chiara Bersani creates an environment where impromptu groups of disabled people can meet and become community. The only thing we know in advance about this environment is its stratification. There will be a sky above our heads, unattainable and horizontal, where sounds and lights will move at the same relentless pace as the expanding universe. There will be an underwood living under that sky and inhabited by the performers, by the audience, by other sounds and other lights that will live and tremble like bodies and plants.
What lies between the sky and the underwood we still don’t know. The sonic dimension of the performance refers to the multiform and multidimensional route that a meridian can cover from North Pole to South Pole. The evolution of sound throughout the play recalls a hyperbolic movement crossing states, light and dark places, textures of different matters, clean and foggy, empty, wide or narrow. Microsounds, tiny worlds inhabiting these macroforms, details that build up a spatial environment that lives and listens, in a continuous transformation.
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