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The Lecture-Performance: Implementing Performative Pedagogy in Literature Class
2020
In recent years the performative has gained importance within the pedagogical field and has opened new perspectives in educational research. Experience has shown that the integration of performative elements in the learning process allow teachers to involve learners emotionally and cognitively. The present paper deals with a learning experience performed with students in the course “German Literature (2nd language)” at the University of Valencia. From the perspective of Performative Pedagogy, students are asked to carry out a research project and then transfer the acquired knowledge to the theatrical format that must be didactic: a Lecture-Performance. This activity highlights the benefits …
Eleonora Duse as Juliet and Cleopatra
2017
From her debut as Juliet in 1872 onwards, the career of Eleonora Duse (1858–1924) is marked by an evolving, changeable approach to her Shakespearean roles. In different ways and under diverse circumstances, each of her Shakespearean parts represented something of a turning-point in her cursus. Scholars have argued that life and art, emotional instinct and theatrical performance, coalesced seamlessly throughout her Shakespearean repertoire, and in particular in her interpretation of Cleopatra (Puppa 2009). Yet while this theory that she acted out her own personal life, and that her characters’ feelings coincided with her own, is an attractive one, it is also reductive. New evidence——the disc…
Fortuna dell’«Alda» di Guglielmo di Blois fra il XII e il XIII secolo: commedie elegiache, “fabliaux” e romanzi cortesi
2018
In questo intervento vengono studiate la fortuna e le imitazioni dell’Alda, commedia elegiaca latina di Guglielmo di Blois (scritta verso il 1169-1170), nella letteratura latina e volgare dei secc. XII e XIII. In particolare, dopo una presentazione generale dell’opera ci si sofferma su alcune commedie elegiache latine successive (Baucis et Traso, De mercatore, De uxore cerdonis di Iacopo da Benevento), su alcuni fabliaux antico-francesi del sec. XIII (Trubert di Douin de Lavesne, Li sohaiz desvez di Jean Bodel, l’anonimo De la damoisele) e sui romanzi di Chrétien de Troyes (Yvain) e di Roberto di Blois (Floris et Lyriopé). L’ultima sezione del lavoro è fondata, infine, sullo studio delle co…
L’Asilo, Napoli: Dall’ordine poliziesco della politica culturale al regime estetico della comunità che viene
2020
This paper presents and analyses the cultural and social centre "Asilo" in Naples as an urban commons and as an example of critical citizenship.
PROTEZIONE E MIGLIORAMENTO DELLE PRESTAZIONI ANTINCENDIO NEI TEATRI ALL’ITALIANA. FIRE PROTECTION AND PERFORMANCE UPGRADE IN ITALIAN STYLE THEATRES
2018
Se storicamente gli incendi sono stati la causa principale di distruzione di molti teatri all’italiana, ancora in un recente passato interventi di conservazione, restauro e adeguamento alle norme antincendio, in alcuni casi incolti e irrispettosi, ne hanno stravolto gli elementi architettonico-costruttivi caratterizzanti. Come per ogni edificio storico, ancor più nei Teatri, in cui l’effimero connota molte parti della costruzione, è necessario garantire oltre alla salvaguardia delle vite umane, la protezione dell’edificio e del suo valore intrinseco. Il processo per raggiungere livelli adeguati di prestazioni e sicurezza antincendio pone pertanto molte sfide per i legislatori, i progettisti…
Città Invisibili of Teatro Potlach: A Journey to Rediscover Our Cultural Heritage
2017
Città Invisibili is a multidisciplinary art project made by the Italian company Teatro Potlach. Compared to the canonical theatrical performances, Città Invisibili, being in its essence a site-specific performance, interacts with the place where it grows. With the project, the Italian group builds next to the existing space of the place (physical space and memory space) other two spaces, the space of the staging and the space of the performer, using different materials, in particular cloths and video projections. Moreover Teatro Potlach conducts a historical, anthropological and social research trying to bring out the latent memory of places. All these interventions bring out from the place…
Straight into the Eyes - Jacek Łumiński and the Silesian Dance Theatre (1991-2011)
2020
The fi nal decade of the 20 th century was the turning-point for the development of Polish contemporary dance. In 1991 Jacek Łuminski established the Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom. The theatre is said to be in the avant-garde of all activities related to contemporary dance development in Poland. It was J. Łuminski and his theatre who pioneered new trends in contemporary dance at the beginning of the nineties of the 20 th century, at the same time they have conducted educational activity over the intervening twenty years. The aim of this article is to present the artistic and educational activity of the Silesian Dance Theatre of the recent twenty years. In the beginning the author presents…
I Cannot Place You: Dementia and the Pandemic Experience in The Visiting Hour by Frank McGuinness
2021
This paper presents a new play by Frank McGuinness, a play which was streamed to audiences in April 2021 and published a few weeks later. Set in contemporary Ireland, it focuses on two themes which seem to preoccupy its author: dementia, to which he devoted another play, Hanging Gardens and the consequences of living in a time of Pandemic. In particular, I argue, McGuinness indirectly seems to address an important question: how can literature and theatre offer an opportunity for reflecting about what is happening around us? Can literature help us to better understand and face the world? The play foregrounds the restorative power of emotional authenticity as we see a father and his daughter …
Il movimento disegnato: studi grafici sulle scenografie d’avanguardia
2018
L’articolo affronta lo studio delle immagini visuali prodotte dal movimento attraverso il disegno delle scenografie realizzate durante quel momento di rivoluzione teatrale, in atto tra il 1920 e il 1930, che vide la cooperazione di differenti settori dell’arte, tra cui la fotografia, la pittura, l’architettura, il cinema, la danza, la scultura, la musica. I valori visuali che innescarono la teorizzazione dell’avanguardia artistica e, successivamente, la produzione nella forma e nello spazio del disegno scenografico costituiscono un corollario di sistemi dinamici, metafora del movimento decostruito attraverso la figurazione dell’idea e al tempo stesso significazione della distorsione interpr…
The Evaluation of the Cultural Industries Impacts on the Local Economies: The Teatro Massimo Foundation
2022
Thanks to its relevant positive effects, the cultural industry, including the Opera Houses, is becoming increasingly important for economic and social well-being. On the other hand, given their cultural relevance and the high costs, these activities require the support of public funds. This evidence generates the need to quantify the economic benefits deriving from its activities to evaluate the opportunity and the return of the public financial support. The study analyses the case of the Fondazione Teatro Massimo di Palermo offering an estimate of the economic, occupational, and fiscal impact on the municipal, provincial, regional, and national territories. The results show how the Opera H…