«Gentle Unicorn»
Chiara Bersani

Unicorns are magical animals.

Many stories are about unicorns.

But what do unicorns think about themselves?

The performer Chiara Bersani is 98 centimetres tall.

And she gives the unicorn a voice.

And a body.

The audience looks at her.

Chiara Bersani looks back.

The play shows:

• How do other people look at us?

• What do they think about us?

• And how can we deal with this?

Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and choreographer. In her internationally touring works, she explores concepts and practices of the «political body» and its interactions with social images and narratives. As an activist, she is committed to the accessibility of the p

erforming arts for artists with disabilities. «Gentle Unicorn» was selected for Aerowaves Twenty 2019 and was shown at the Venice Biennale, the Reykjavík Dance Festival and the international dance festival Dance Umbrella in London, among others. In 2018 she received the UBU Prize and in 2019 the first prize in the dance category of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. From 2020-2024 she was supported by apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, a project funded by the Creative Europe program of the EU. 

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