
PHYSICAL PREPARATION:
movement analysis / economy of movement and development in space / great movements / scenic balance / body and vocal training
DRAMATIC MEANING AND USE OF TIME, RHYTHM AND SPACE
THEATRE PLAY
NEUTRALITY AND SCENIC PRESENCE:
observation and imitation of daily life
STILLNESS ZONE AND NEUTRAL MASK:
nature-dynamic analysis - elements, materials, animals and its dramatic transposition
THE POETRY OF THE INSTANT:
theatre of objects and materials
APPROACH TO THE DRAMATIC TERRITORIES:
Basel Masks / expressive Masks / recycling-material masks
THE GREEK TRAGEDY AND ITS CONTEMPORARY TRANSPOSITION:
the hero / the Greek Chorus and collective choreographies
CREATION OF A CHARACTER AND OF AN “OPPOSITE” CHARACTER-
FROM REALITY TO STYLIZATION:
walk and gestures / attitudes / human passions and emotions / rhythm and musicality
LANGUAGE OF GESTURE:
melodrama and melo-mime / photo-roman / white pantomime / silent movie pantomime / comic melo
THE GROTESQUE:
the buffoons / the comic grotesque and „black humour“
FROM HARLEQUIN...:
half masks of the Commedia dell’Arte / actions and lazzi of the Commedia „all improvviso“ / improvisation techniques / the human comedy
…TO THE SMALLEST MASK IN THE WORLD, THE RED NOSE:
theatre and circus clown / the search of ones own clown
THE LANGUAGE OF GESTURE: FROM PANTOMIME TO CARTOON, FROM THE SET TO THE THEATRE:
cartoon – mime / mimed comic strips /the „Bande Mimate” and the illusion of movement, spaces, objects and characters in the cinema.
