Actor's Studio 

THE PROFESSIONAL ACTOR is a pool of professional modules regarding different techniques and acting’s subjects, this module is just the one of the fundamental step to perform in front of the audience.

Basic objective of the First Module "Mental Stuff"  is to introduce basic and advantaged actor methodologies to make each one able to create their one training warm up, increase improvisation’s skill and investigate about life necessity reducing stress and acquiring more balance and self confidence.

This module is the basic introduction to several techniques and his development during the 4 months workshop will depend closely to the group 


Program
 
a)      Actor basic general training                                                                  (Various Methodologies)
 
b)      The individual warm up                                        (method. Grotowski, Delacroze, Delsarte)
 
c)       Presentation and fake identities                                                           (Original Methodology)
 
d)      Character and Psychological Improvisations                       (method. Stanislavski- Lecoq)
 
e)      “Silent and music  Improvisations”                                                      (Original methodology)
 
f)       Element of Mime, Pantomime and Physical Theatre                  (Various Methodologies)
 
g)       Element of Classical and Modern Theatre                                      (Various Methodologies)                       
 
h)      Preliminary structures of a theatre creation and performance   (Individual Progressive)

 

Pinocchio is part of this tradition with its “full-body-mask” inserts in a meta-writing literature structure. The Adventures of Pinocchio will be filtered by the 6 Characters of Pirandello, characters looking for their time to play.
Even Pirandello with is negative relativism looked at the Commedia as the way to fix his dreaming symbolism and his vast meta-theatre experimentation.
 
Program
 
1.       Warm up sections                          (Method. Grotowski, Delacroze, Delsarte)
 
2.       Harmonization Exercises, Build Games                       (Grotowski –various)
 
3.       The neutral and larval masks                                                          (Meth. Lecoq)
 
4.       The Puppet dance                                                             (Original Methodology)
 
5.       Deprivation movement and Dance            (Methodology Bausch- Original)
 
6.       The Charlatan                                                                        (Commedia Dell’Arte)
 
7.       Fragments of “the Adventures of Pinocchio”    (Collodi and Original Meth)
 
8.       Fragments from “The 6 Characters”              (Pirandello  and Original Meth) 
 
9.       THE PERFORMANCE                                          - Stage in front a real audience- 
 

Following the schema of the PROFESSIONAL ACTOR, the COMPLETE PERFORMER’s objective is to address the Actor to find an original way to express skills and talents.

The first module is about epic, Intimate, absurd and expressionist theatre so, basically a large part of the modern and contemporary theatre from the crisis of the bourgeois theatre to a contemporary experimentation.

The neutral mask (Lecoq methodology) will be largely adapted to the individual purpose of physical exploration as well a basic workshop of the intimate theatre writing will transform the performer in author of his actions.

Beckett, Ionesco, Artaud will be the main author for a common inspiration.
 

Program

a)      Warm up sections                                                    (Method. Grotowski, Delacroze, Delsarte)
 
b)      The Neutral Mask                                                                                                     (Method. Lecoq)
 
c)       Harmonization Exercises, Build Games, Hata Yoga                        (Grotowski –various)
 
d)      The creative writing for contemporary Theatre                              (Original Methodology)
 
e)      Collective and Individual improvisations                (Various and original Methodologies)
 
f)       Deprivation movement and Dance Theatre                                                                  (Original)
 
g)      The Absurd Theatre                                                                                                (Beckett, Original)
 
h)      The Epic and  Intimate Theatre                                                   (Third Theatre Original Meth)
 
i)        The Expressionist Theatre –  Cruel actions in Physical Theatre (Artaud - Original Meth)           
 
j)        THE PERFORMANCE                                                                    - Stage in front a real audience-
 

Shakespeare is fundamental step to be an actor and a complete performer. In fact with this workshop each student can explore intensively impulses and energies able to “dress” Shakespearian roles.

Larval and expressive masks (Lecoq methodology) will be largely adapted to the individual purpose of physical exploration as well to create scenes and sequences for the production

A large study of William Shakespeare major well-know script “Hamlet”, will be focused on underscoring the difference between “Soul” and “Characters”, working out to find how actor creativity can bring Shakespeare close to all contemporary issues.

Program
a)      Warm up sections                                       (Method. Grotowski, Delacroze, Delsarte)
 
b)      Larval and Expressive Masks                                                                    (Method. Lecoq)
 
c)       Harmonization Exercises, Build Games, Hata Yoga            (Grotowski –various)
 
d)      Shakespeare in Contemporary Theatre's writing                 (Original Methodology)
 
e)      “ Impulses”  Individual and collective Improvisations     (Various methodologies)
 
f)       The” Up Spring” Pizzica Metropolis dance                             (Original Methodology)
 
g)      Poetic walking meditation and Individual actions                (Original Methodology)
 
h)      Fragments from “Hamlet” of W. Shakespeare              (Shakespeare, Gordon Greg)
 
i)        The Shakespearian Roles (Soul- Villain- Character)                             (Original Meth)
 
j)        The Shakespearian Chorus and  the Players                                            (Original Meth)
 
k)      THE ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE                                  - Stage in front a real audience-