Learning objectives
The course aims to transmit to students the methodological tools and theoretical historical knowledge to analyse and understand forms, languages, and systems of artistic production and theatrical staging through the exegesis and critical interpretation of its written, oral and visual sources.
Knowledge and understanding: the alternation of lectures and seminars will allow students to acquire specialised knowledge on theatrical production and staging and achieve a certain methodological and analytical competences with respect to the discussion of the tangible and intangible heritage of the performing arts with specific interest in issues relating to entertainment archives and atlases (physical, mental and digital).
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course intends to offer specialised knowledge of the performing arts, which links theatre practice with the study, translation and research of ancient dramais, as well as oral performing practices --that is those 'intermediate' expressive and performative forms - as discussed by Aby Warburg - who find in theatrical action and in the movement of dance, in gesture, in recitative, in singing, in music, as in the scene, the expressive capacity that links life to art.
We will analyse forms, languages and systems of theatrical staging through the exegesis and critical interpretation of texts, oral and visual sources, starting from a selection of documents preserved in local, national and international archives and collections.
By retracing some of the historical-theoretical trajectories of theatrical forms and practices, we will explore models of performance atlases, through which the material and immaterial heritage of the performing arts is archived, documented, valorised and ultimately shared and participated.
Part of the course will have a historical-critical focus and will address general issues of theatrical disciplines. In parallel we will proceed with some laboratory and seminar-type lessons, which will see the participation of specialists in the sector with the projection of video and digital materials, and which will be organised around the study of specific case studies, to identify forms and systems of reactivation of themes, languages and cultural heritage in the performing arts and theatrical staging between past and present.
The laboratory setting of part of the lessons will allow students to achieve a certain methodological and analytical ability with respect to the discussion of the material and immaterial heritage of the performing arts, with specific interest in issues relating to archives and atlases of the performance (physical, mental and digital).
Full programme
he course, in person, will be structured through frontal lessons, viewings of film materials relating to theatrical and performance works, alternating with seminar moments in which a selection of readings will be discussed in class, making use of active learning methodologies, which involve the active participation of students in class.
The course also includes meetings with sector operators and visits to some of the city's archives and/or museums aimed at an introduction to the methods of identifying traces of the show and the study of direct sources.
The course, in person, will be structured through frontal lessons, viewings of film materials relating to theatrical and performance works, alternating with seminar moments in which a selection of readings will be discussed in class, making use of active learning methodologies, which involve the active participation of students in class.
The course also includes meetings with sector operators and visits to some of the city's archives and/or museums aimed at an introduction to the methods of identifying traces of the show and the study of direct sources.
The course aims to transmit to students the methodological tools and theoretical historical knowledge to analyse and understand forms, languages, and systems of artistic production and theatrical staging through the exegesis and critical interpretation of its written, oral and visual sources.
Knowledge and understanding: the alternation of lectures and seminars will allow students to acquire specialised knowledge on theatrical production and staging and achieve a certain methodological and analytical competences with respect to the discussion of the tangible and intangible heritage of the performing arts with specific interest in issues relating to entertainment archives and atlases (physical, mental and digital).
The course aims to transmit to students the methodological tools and theoretical historical knowledge to analyse and understand forms, languages, and systems of artistic production and theatrical staging through the exegesis and critical interpretation of its written, oral and visual sources.
Knowledge and understanding: the alternation of lectures and seminars will allow students to acquire specialised knowledge on theatrical production and staging and achieve a certain methodological and analytical competences with respect to the discussion of the tangible and intangible heritage of the performing arts with specific interest in issues relating to entertainment archives and atlases (physical, mental and digital).
The course aims to transmit to students the methodological tools and theoretical historical knowledge to analyse and understand forms, languages, and systems of artistic production and theatrical staging through the exegesis and critical interpretation of its written, oral and visual sources.
Knowledge and understanding: the alternation of lectures and seminars will allow students to acquire specialised knowledge on theatrical production and staging and achieve a certain methodological and analytical competences with respect to the discussion of the tangible and intangible heritage of the performing arts with specific interest in issues relating to entertainment archives and atlases (physical, mental and digital).
Bibliography
The Bibliography of the course will be shared at the beginning of the classes, via Elly.
Teaching methods
The course includes: frontal lessons, seminars and workshops in the archives.
Assessment methods and criteria
Final Exam: written and oral. More information will be shared in class.
Other information
The course also includes an international internship in collaboration with UCL and Oxford University and addressed to a group of 10 selected students.
