We're taking you to the NEXT Festival!
With a shuttle bus leaving from the Gymnase, discover two shows in one evening.
We’re taking you to the NEXT Festival!
With a shuttle bus leaving from the Gymnase, discover two shows in one evening.
Sottobosco
Chiara Bersani (Italy)
Created in 2023 | 50 mins
Chiara Bersani explores the relationship between disabled bodies and the environment. Enriched by her encounters with disabled children, the Italian artist loses herself with them in an undergrowth. Sottobosco plays with light and sound to make the bodies disappear in harmony with nature.
Songs of a Wayfarer
Claire Cunningham (United Kingdom)
Created in 2024 | ≈ 1h15
Songs of a Wayfarer was originally a cycle of four songs composed by Gustav Mahler. Claire Cunningham drew inspiration from it for her eponymous solo. Using dance, song and a pair of crutches, the choreographer examines the act of travelling for bodies that are prevented from doing so.
Sottobosco
Design, text: Chiara Bersani
Performance: Chiara Bersani, Elena Sgarbossa
Sound dramaturgy: Lemmo
Technical direction, set design, lighting: Valeria Foti
Costumes: Ettore Lombardi
Dramaturgy: Chiara Bersani, Giulia Traversi
Artistic consultant: Marco D’Agostin
Songs of a Wayfarer
Concept, choreography, performance: Claire Cunningham
Artistic collaboration: Julia Watts Belser
Assistant director: Dan Watson
Dramaturgy: Luke Pell
Set and Costume Design: Bethany Wells
Lighting: Chris Copland
Sound: Matthias Herrmann
Sottobosco
Production: corpoceleste c.c.0.0#
Coproduction: Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition (Mondaino), Sardegna Teatro (Cagliari), Bunker (Ljubljana), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France
Support: Creative Europe, Theaterfestival Boulevard (s-Hertogenbosch), Carreau du Temple Etablissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de ParisTanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf), Tanz Im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer ( Berlijn), Rosendal Teater (Trondheim), DansIT (Trondheim), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Gent), Snaporazverein (Samaden), SPIELART Theaterfestival (München), Fuorimargine Centro di produzione della Danza (Cagliari)
Songs of a Wayfarer
Production: Claire Cunningham
Coproduction: Mousonturm Frankfurt, Next Festival Kotrijk, HAU Hebbel am Ufer & No Limits Festival Berlin, No Limits Festival Hong Kong, Kammerspiele Munich, Sadler’s Wells London, Dampfzentrale Bern.
Created as part of the Einstein Strategic Professorship ‘Choreography, Dance and Disability Arts’ at the HZT Berlin.
