Università Roma Tre

The workshop is organized as a mixed pedagogical setting that alternates stage practice with historical reflection, aiming to approach empirically the principles of Theatre Anthropology as identified by Eugenio Barba during the ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) sessions and then make them conscious through some theoretical observations.
Will be provided some of the tools that lead to developing a certain quality of stage presence. Presence of the feet, of the voice and of the body intended as body-mind. The workshop will be shaped firstly along the guidelines of the training, specifically psychophysical training – the work on oneself based on exercises from eastern (especially those based on the technique by the Japanese master Tadashi Suzuki) and western stage crafts. Within this, focus will be given to the work on rhythm and rhythmic actions, that is actions generated in reaction to an external impulse, e.g. music; other key points will be the work on intentions, on the ‘body to body’ communication, and on the differences between choral voice and individual voice).
A second guideline of the workshop will be improvisation as in the meaning given by Stanislavsky, relating to the construction of a character.
Finally, the work will be completed along the third guideline of research on the score, intended as a construction of individual and of group materials based on the play Antigone. The score will also serve as process for approaching the concept of physical and vocal stage dialogue, the principle of action-reaction and a certain quality of listening, psychophysical as well.
Through readings and analyses, we will attempt to always root the practices of the workshop in the context of theatre history studies.
The transmission and learning of any technique mean learning a way to stand in life. A path. A way to breathe, to resist, to measure oneself against one’s limits to look for ways to overcome them.

Sofocle, Antigone (Einaudi editore, traduzione di Massimo Cacciari, ISBN 9788806188764)