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Bio

Chiara Bersani is an Italian performer and writer active in the fields of the performing arts, experimental theater, and contemporary dance. Her works, presented on international circuits, center on the concept of the “Political Body.” With *Gentle Unicorn*, a performance included in the Aerowaves circuit, she won the UBU Award for Best New Actress/Performer Under 35 in 2018 and the Total Theatre Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2023, *Deserters*, the artist’s first solo exhibition, opened at the Kunsthaus in Basel, in collaboration with GAMEC in Bergamo and supported by the 11th edition of the Italian Council.
She is co-curator, alongside Giulia Traversi, of the Spazio Kor season and Guest Curator for the 2025 edition of the international performing arts festival *Bastards* (Trondheim, Norway). She is a member of Al.Di.Qua.Artists, a professional association for artists with disabilities. For her work as an activist, she was nominated for the Black Carpet Awards and the Diversity Awards in 2023. She is an associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro 2025–2027.

Flavia Dalila D’Amico is a scholar and curator in the field of the performing arts. Her research interests focus on the intersections between bodies, political subjectivities, and technologies within the performing arts. In 2022, she published the book Lost in Translation: Disabilities on Stage (Bulzoni Editore), which explores the relationship between disabilities and theater. In 2024, she co-authored with Diana Ciufo Accessibility as an Aesthetic Principle: A Year of Experimentation in Art, Co-Design, and Social Justice (Bulzoni Editore). In 2025, she co-authored with Chiara Bersani and Giulia Traversi the book Above All Else: Toward a CRIPS Future (Sossella Editore).
She is a member of Al. Di. Qua. Artists, a professional association that promotes the rights of artists with disabilities. She manages communications for Chiara Bersani and the artistic residency Creazioni Accessibili, which aims to experiment with dramaturgy of access, produced by ORBITA|Spellbound National Center for Dance Production.

Giulia Traversi is a curator and dramaturg in the field of the performing arts. In 2014, she worked as an organizer at the NID platform in collaboration with the Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo. She has worked in the promotions department at the Teatro Era in Pontedera—the National Theater of Tuscany—and curated the “Maps to the Stars” series at the Cinema Lumiere in Pisa. She currently manages Chiara Bersani, Doris Uhlich, Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin, and Gianmaria Borzillo. In 2025, she served as a guest curator alongside Chiara Bersani at the Bastard International Festival in Trondheim, Norway. She is co-artistic director with Chiara Bersani of the Spazio Kor theater in Asti, head of accessibility and dance at the Teatro Mercadante in Cerignola, and president of the Associazione Teatro di Buti. She teaches promotion and communication of cultural events at the University of Pisa, in the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge.