The workshop aims to introduce the students to a specific procedure in making a theatre performance, providing them, together with elements of knowledge on a theoretical level, the possibility of making it a concrete experience.
The work will mainly concern the awareness of the place as common and concrete ground of the creative process. Then, it will develop in the recognition of the tools and languages (light, sound, physical action) and in the experimentation of several findings and solutions, related to points of views and the interplay of skills and materials. Every participant is involved as a performer and as a designer of the collective creation. The common goal is the proposal and the public rehearsal of an accomplished score, worked out from one of the hypotheses of stage composition identified in the space.
The work will mainly concern the awareness of the place as common and concrete ground of the creative process. Then, it will develop in the recognition of the tools and languages (light, sound, physical action) and in the experimentation of several findings and solutions, related to points of views and the interplay of skills and materials. Every participant is involved as a performer and as a designer of the collective creation. The common goal is the proposal and the public rehearsal of an accomplished score, worked out from one of the hypotheses of stage composition identified in the space.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
The workshop introduces the participants to the criteria and methods of the "theatre of places", a project related to the creation of theatrical and installation works starting from the specific characters of the sites. In this project the characters of the site become generative with respect to the performance. The texts, the actions, the movement take shape during the preparatory work carried out on the spot, on the basis of the suggestions collected in it and the reading of the pre-existing elements and relationships. The workshop will be introduced, on the first day, by a theoretical meeting on the project, with audiovisual supports, and related discussions. In the two following days it will put the participants, divided into groups, in the condition of experiencing the possible relationships with the space, with the elaboration of short actions and interventions, which assume the place as an ordering principle: the last two days will be dedicated to the “montage” of the actions. Particular emphasis will be given to the role played by light in the process
Fabrizio Crisafulli, Il teatro dei luoghi. Lo spettacolo generato dalla realtà, Dublin: Artdigiland 2015
Fabrizio Crisafulli, Active Light. Issues of Light in Contemporary Theatre, Dublin: Artdigiland 2013
Programme
Light and the PlaceThe workshop introduces the participants to the criteria and methods of the "theatre of places", a project related to the creation of theatrical and installation works starting from the specific characters of the sites. In this project the characters of the site become generative with respect to the performance. The texts, the actions, the movement take shape during the preparatory work carried out on the spot, on the basis of the suggestions collected in it and the reading of the pre-existing elements and relationships. The workshop will be introduced, on the first day, by a theoretical meeting on the project, with audiovisual supports, and related discussions. In the two following days it will put the participants, divided into groups, in the condition of experiencing the possible relationships with the space, with the elaboration of short actions and interventions, which assume the place as an ordering principle: the last two days will be dedicated to the “montage” of the actions. Particular emphasis will be given to the role played by light in the process
Core Documentation
Optional:Fabrizio Crisafulli, Il teatro dei luoghi. Lo spettacolo generato dalla realtà, Dublin: Artdigiland 2015
Fabrizio Crisafulli, Active Light. Issues of Light in Contemporary Theatre, Dublin: Artdigiland 2013
Reference Bibliography
Fabrizio Crisafulli, Il teatro dei luoghi. Lo spettacolo generato dalla realtà, Dublin: Artdigiland 2015 Fabrizio Crisafulli, Active Light. Issues of Light in Contemporary Theatre, Dublin: Artdigiland 2013Type of delivery of the course
WorkshopType of evaluation
The student's attendance and the quality of his/her participation in the workshop will be evaluated. A short report (3 pages) on the criteria, principles and steps of the workshop is requested, which will also be subject to evaluation.