| CODE | 84350 |
|---|---|
| ACADEMIC YEAR | 2017/2018 |
| CREDITS | 6 credits during the 3nd year of 8457 Letters and Humanities (L-10) GENOVA |
| SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | L-ART/05 |
| LANGUAGE | Italian |
| TEACHING LOCATION | GENOVA (Letters and Humanities) |
| SEMESTER | 1° Semester |
Once traditional theater scholars overcame the 18th century prejudice (plays=literature), they were free to focus on performative aspects (“History of the Theater and Spectacle”). Today the need for a new approach is taking shape, one that considers the wide range of theatrical behavior without the presumption of a linear narrative. Its object is as improbable as it is ephemeral but underlies an understanding of the present.
While not constituting a discipline, the anthropological approach to the study of theater can speak to both its past and present significance by incorporating and even using our inevitable prejudices in the very story of their irreducible historical and geographical discrepancies. This course aims to use contemporary and ancient, Eastern and Western, theatrical and media examples to retrace the main issues of theater and its current state: the body, improvisation, ritual, voice, myth, space, mask and costume, why, when and how theater functions.
We aim to provide students with the following skills: from a historical perspective, to appreciate the discrepancy (irreducibility?) among theatrical phenomena; from a cultural perspective, to consider the trans-media, multidisciplinary and intercultural traits of theatrical forms; from a critical perspective, to understand the creative, social diversity of theater today from actor’s theater to director’s theater to community theater.
In-class lectures using audio/visual materials and practical exercises
Icarus, Thespis and Solon: three myths of origin, Thebes as CSI (the primal scene), skene and theatron, mimesis and catharsis (and today, Mirror Neurons), theater space as relational space, hypotaxis and parataxis (from the Valenciennes Passion play to the The Last Days of Mankind), masks, poor devils (the birth of Harlequin), in this, the theater ( a dramatic turn of events), Saint Genesius, protect us, theater-workshop (the actor-saint of Jerzy Grotowski), theatrum mundi, (the International School of Theater Anthropology founded by E. Barba), from the Living Theater to reality shows, on the ruins of teatro all’italiana (Peter Brook).
Office hours: After each lesson or by appointment.
ROBERTO CUPPONE (President)
LIVIA CAVAGLIERI
In-class lectures using audio/visual materials and practical exercises
Oral
The evaluation will be divided into three equal parts: a) learning the content of the required readings, b) the ability to write a critical assessment of them, c) initiative toward personal development
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17/01/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 17/01/2018 | 17:30 | IMPERIA | Orale | |
| 07/02/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 07/02/2018 | 15:00 | IMPERIA | Orale | |
| 22/02/2018 | 15:00 | IMPERIA | Orale | |
| 23/05/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 11/06/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 11/06/2018 | 15:00 | IMPERIA | Orale | |
| 25/06/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 25/06/2018 | 15:00 | IMPERIA | Orale | |
| 09/07/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 10/07/2018 | 15:00 | IMPERIA | Orale | |
| 12/09/2018 | 11:00 | GENOVA | Orale | |
| 12/09/2018 | 15:00 | IMPERIA | Orale |
Please contact the instructor for information on bibliography or other course materials, to resolve any problems getting access to the texts or to request any justified changes to the program.