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Chiara Fersini
Chiara Fersini (1991) is a dancer and choreographer from Salento, in South-East Italy, currently based in Germany. She works internationally as a freelance artist, performing in both national and international contexts, and has developed an artistic practice that spans stage performance and independent creation.
As a dancer, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers and companies, including Luana Rossetti – cie. [LR], Toula Limnaios, Johannes Wieland, Reut Shemesh, Oxymoron Dance Company, Chaim Gebber Open Scene, Rigolo Tanztheater, Barbara Bess, Curtis & Co., Hans-Otto-Theater, Theater Thikwa, Vola Stageart Company... In 2014-15, she was part of the Junior Ballet de Lille (France), performing works by choreographers such as Olivier Dubois and Sébastien Thierry. In 2016 she joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company International Program in Israel, where she performed original repertoire from the company.
Since 2022, she has been developing her own choreographic work, which has gained national and international recognition. Her creations have been supported by institutions such as Fonds Darstellende Künste, the City of Nürnberg, BLZT, Tanzzentrale e.V., CON Bamberg, Kultur.Lokal.Fürth, as well as by the RIESCO project of Network Internazionale Danza Puglia. In 2024 she won the RiGenereAzioni call with her solo work Shelters.
Since 2026 she is a Producing Artist associated with the Tanzzentrale e.V. of the region of Nürnberg.
Her academic background includes also a diploma from the Mo.Da. school in Modena (Italy), where she graduated in 2014 as a professional modern-contemporary dancer and worked as a teacher's assistant. In the same year, she completed a Bachelor's degree in European Languages and Cultures at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Current work
A CHOIR OF ECHOES
PREMIERE and SECOND PERFORMANCE:
30 & 31 OCTOBER 2026 - Kulturwerkstatt Auf AEG NÜRNBERG
What happens when the body carries the distance between where we come from and where we are?
A Choir of Echoes is a choreographic ritual emerging from the encounter between contemporary dance and the ancient healing traditions of Southern Italy. Inspired by the phenomenon of Tarantism and its ecstatic dances, the work looks at the body as a place where displacement, longing, memory and transformation accumulate.
Two bodies move through states of tension, repetition and release, tracing the invisible weight of what has been left behind and what cannot be fully reached. Personal memories meet inherited gestures, while rhythm becomes a passage between isolation and connection.
The work evokes a ritual that no longer belongs to a single time or place: a space where individual experiences can resonate collectively, and where the body becomes both the site of a wound and a possible means of transformation.
A Choir of Echoes is an invitation to witness this passage — from fragmentation towards connection, from what is carried alone towards what can be shared.
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