20709720 - TRADITIONS, CRAFTS, LIVING THEATER

OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMME
Study meetings and laboratory meetings dedicated to specific areas of puppet theatre framed by scholars, artists and teachers both from an historiographical point of view and from the scenic practice's perspective. The objective is to analyse the “living” puppet theatre, its expressive possibilities and, at the same time, the great traditions included in it, that today live renewing themselves. So, traditions and crafts, but also history and modernity of a living theatre. Material theatre and, at the same time, theatre of history and memory.
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Programme

Study meetings and laboratory meetings dedicated to specific areas of puppet theatre framed by scholars, artists and teachers both from an historiographical point of view and from the scenic practice's perspective. “Marionettes, puppets, shadows and dummies between East and West”: these are the topics of the meetings of this course, meetings with scholars and, above all, with the masters of these theatrical traditions.
The objective is to analyse the “living” puppet theatre, its expressive possibilities and, at the same time, the great traditions included in it, that today live renewing themselves. So, traditions and crafts, but also history and modernity of a living theatre. Material theatre and, at the same time, theatre of history and memory.


Core Documentation

TEXTS FOR THE EXAMINATION:

ATTENDING STUDENTS
1) Alfonso Cipolla, Giovanni Moretti, "Storia dei burattini e delle marionette in Italia", Corazzano, Titivillus, 2011
2) Texts and materials that will be recommended and / or provided during the lessons (it will be possible to diversify the study topics by choosing from the topics covered in class and agreed with the teacher).


NON ATTENDING STUDENTS
1) Alfonso Cipolla, Giovanni Moretti, "Storia dei burattini e delle marionette in Italia", Corazzano, Titivillus, 2011
2) Mariano Dolci, Vito Minoia, "Dialogo sul trasferimento del burattino in educazione", Urbino, Edizioni Nuove Catarsi, 2009 (per informazioni sulla distribuzione del volume si rimanda al sito www.edizioninuovecatarsi.org)
3) Giorgio Agamben, "Pulcinella ovvero Divertimento per li regazzi", Roma, ed. nottetempo, edizione aggiornata del 2016
4) Materials prepared by the professor and published in the teacher's area on the site of the FilCoSpe department, to download online: http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo-uniroma3-it.mirror.uniroma3.it/vventurini/materiale-didattico/dispense-corso-tradizioni-mestieri-teatro-vivo-a-a-2018-19/

E-MAIL ADDRESS OF THE PROFESSOR: valentina.venturini@uniroma3.it
LESSONS: second semester


Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons. As indicated in the list of the texts for the exam, for attending students there are differences in the topics and texts in the program. To be considered attending students must not do more than three absences.

Attendance

Attendance is strongly recommended.

Type of evaluation

Oral examination with the teacher. Attending and non-attending students will have to answer at least one question posed orally on each part of the program, with reference to the recommended texts and lectures. The assessment of the learning takes place through an oral test assessed by the minimum mark of 18/30, corresponding to the basic knowledge of all parts of the program and of the technical language, to the maximum mark of 30/30 with honors, which is equivalent to excellent mastery of the subjects, excellent or excellent property of language, excellent or excellent analytical ability.