Course description
The legend of the origins of theater is connected from the beginning with the theme of the welcome to the stranger: the gifts of the vine, wine, drunkenness and thus indirectly of the theater, are done by Dionysus to Icario farmer to repay his hospitality. Without constituting a discipline, the anthropological approach is able to speak, together, of what the theater has been and what it still is for us; incorporating and indeed using our inevitable prejudices in the story itself of its irreducible differences, historical and geographical. The course aims to trace, between ancient and contemporary examples, western and eastern, the principal questions regarding the theater and its relevance today: the body, the improvisation, the ritual, the voice, the myth, the space, the mask; why, when and how the theater "works" as a diversity workshop.
Lectures, with projection of video materials
Mandatory:
Eugenio Barba, Nicola Savarese, L’arte segreta dell’attore. Un dizionario di antropologia teatrale, Milano, Ubulibri, 2005
Roberto Tessari, Teatro e antropologia. Tra rito e spettacolo, Roma, Carocci, 2004
Suggested:
Peter Brook, Lo spazio vuoto, Roma, Bulzoni, 1998
Erving Goffman, La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Bologna, il Mulino, 1997 Cesare Molinari, Storia del teatro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996
Ricevimento: After each lesson or by appointment.
ROBERTO CUPPONE (President)
LIVIA CAVAGLIERI
LUCA MALAVASI
Sem: I
19 sept. - 15 dec. 2016
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THEATER
Oral examination: the assessment will focus in equal parts (3/3) a) on the learning of the information contents of the prescribed texts, b) on the critical processing ability of their content, and c) on the initiative of personal deepening.
Attendance
Optional
