Chiara Bersani
Chiara Bersani
Seeking Unicorns
Kunsthalle
June 21, 2026
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Duration 40 minutes
Regular 28,-/ Reduced rate 16,- EUR
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“Seeking Unicorns” is a performance designed for non-theatrical spaces: empty, full, silent, and crowded spaces. Spaces whose light and history ask to be listened to and inhabited. Spaces in which the unicorn tries to find itself in a new form, in which it renounces the fairy tales of the theatre to begin a journey destined to be different for every audience. The unicorn is always looking for the other, it is on the hunt. It experiments with new forms of love, finds something, or not, and in the meantime, small wonders can happen that might completely change its search and seeking. In “Seeking Unicorns”, Chiara Bersani uses the wonder of the unicorn to explode and reconfigure performance’s habitual routines. Chiara invites her audience to receive and imagine the body of the performer, as well as their own bodies, and the bodies that surround them, in new and inconceivable ways.
Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and choreographer active in the field of performing arts, research theatre and contemporary dance. Her works, presented in international circuits, are born as creations in dialogue with spaces of different nature. Her research as an interpreter and author is based on the concept of the “Political Body” and the creation of practices aimed at training its presence and action. The “manifest” work of this research is “Gentle Unicorn”. For the rigor in embodying this study she was awarded the UBU Award for best new actress / performer under 35 for 2018. In August 2019, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gentle Unicorn and Chiara Bersani won the first prize in the dance category of the Total Theatre Awards. Chiara Bersani is an Associate Artist of Triennale Milano Teatro 2025-2027 and nominated for the SEDA - Salavisa European Dance Award 2026.
This guest performance is kindly supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture Ministero della Cultura, Direzione generale Spettacolo, supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hamburg. In cooperation with the 9th Triennal of Photography Hamburg.
Concept, Creation, and Direction: Chiara Bersani
Music: F De Isabella
Lighting Design and Technical Director: Valeria Foti
Tour Technician: Paolo Tizianel
Dramaturgical Consultant: Luca Poncetta
Dramaturg: Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
Coach: Marta Ciappina
Mentoring: Alessandro Sciarroni
External Eye: Marco D’Agostin
Curation and Promotion: Giulia Traversi
Communication and Press Office: Dalila D’Amico
Production Organizer: Eleonora Cavallo
Administrative Consultant: Chiara Fava
Cover photo: Roberta Segata courtesy Centrale Fies
Production: Associazione Culturale Corpoceleste_C.C.00#
Co-production: Santarcangelo Festival, CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa)
Creation realized at the artist residencies Centrale FIES (Dro, Trento), Graner (Barcelona), Carrozzerie | N.o.T. (Rome), Gender Bender Festival (Bologna), CapoTrave/Kilowatt (Sansepolcro).
Chiara Bersani is one of seven artists supported in 2018 by the ResiDance XL project – places and residency projects for choreographic creations – part of the Rete Anticorpi XL – Network Giovane Danza D’autore coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino.
