THE PEDAGOGICAL JOURNEY
The silent body
The presence and the action in the empty space
The beginning of the expressive body
Dramatic tension before the use of the words
The expressive body
Pure and ingénue form and the birth of the voice
The body and the space of text
The human tragicomedy
COURSE WORK
Physical preparation
Anthology of the movement of life
Primary drives
Basic dynamics of movement
Primordial locomotion
The essential articulation
The structures of elementary creatures
Movement technique
The space of the body
The body in the space
Movement analysis of the body in action
The 20 movements by Jacques Lecoq
Mask: As a dynamic structure that moves in the space and
moves the space;
The phrase of articulation of the dramatic action by Matteo Destro:
- the phrase of 5 steps
- the phrase of 9 steps
- the phrase of 14 steps
- the phrase of 26 steps
Fundamental techniques of play of the mask
Advanced technique of articulation
Mask work
Neutral Mask: made by Donato Sartori
Primordial and Larval Masks: made by Matteo Destro
Full Dramatic Masks: made by the students of the program
Monodirectional Masks: made by Matteo Destro
Half Tragi-commedia Masks: made by the students of the program
Satirical Masks: made by Matteo Destro
Voice work
The body, the mask and the space of the voice.
The chorus
The collective mask
Physical rhythm
The energy becomes a tempo
The inner music of the play
PlayWriting
The situation and the dramatic drives
Crescendo: steps of the dramatic tension
Development of the theme
The countermask and the variations
The imbalance of comedy
The forces and the dramatic tensions become body, space and timing
Autonomus ensemble work
Small groups of students work on themes connected to the overall course-work
LABORATORY WORK
Study of the form
Observation of different forms in daily life,
The journey of the form from the larval to the expressive and then became style (comedy, tragedy, drama, grotesque, absurd),
The evolution of the form in the sculpture made of clay
Work on transition from the state of calm to the state of tension, through the form
Mold of the face
Masks design and creation of full mask, half mask, larval mask
Project
Clay sculpture
Plaster mold (for undercuts)
Paper mache
Finishing
Color
Original project
Structures
Everyday objects: the state and choral transposition of the structure
The mask of the set
Architecture of the scenic space
To enter into a mask means to feel what gave birth to it, to rediscover the basis and to find what makes it vibrate in yourself. After this it will be possible to play it from within.
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Jacques Lecoq
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