Galeria Municipal do Porto

Chiara Bersani: Seeking Unicorns

Fogo Fátuo #2

01.03.2025

Schedule

16:05

Venue

Galeria Municipal do Porto — Floor 0

Admission

Free

Chiara Bersani is an Italian author, choreographer and performer working in the fields of performing arts, theatre and contemporary dance. Her research is based on the concept of the “Political Body” and the creation of practices aimed at testing the limits of attention and presence.

The performance Seeking Unicorns is a version of Gentle Unicorn, her artistic manifesto for non-theatrical venues. The site-specific soundscape stimulates all our senses. It enhances our ability to hear and our vision becomes sharper, discovering places that need to be inhabited. The Unicorn embodies the concept of the Political Body, pivotal in Bersani’s research, according to which the body no longer testimonies to the history lived by someone but to a political entity made so by the meeting/clash with society.

This performance features the Foz do Douro Marching Band. It forms part of the programme for the second edition of Fogo Fátuo.

Fotografias de Renato Cruz Santos