2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-ART/05 (PERFORMING ARTS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Storia dell'arte medievale, moderna e contemporanea

2°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FIASCHINI FABRIZIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

The course requires the basic knowledge of the history of the theatre , study and analysis of the scenic languages in the twenties century

The course aims to provide the student with critical and interpretative tools for the knowledge and study of the performance, not only from a theoretical and methodological point of view, but also through historical analysis of the main expressive forms it has taken during the twenties century, interacting with artistic, cultural, ritualistic and sociological processes. At the end of the course the student must have acquired the basic skills to read the complex structure of performance (artistic, anthropological, social), with special reference to the relationships between product and process, aesthetics and ethics, visual arts and social action.

The contents of the course are so structured:

1. The notion of performance in the different disciplinary approaches (artistic, linguistic, anthropological, sociological)
2. The performative model in the system of the arts: the crisis of the concept of the opera as product and the end of the primacy of the text and author
3. Ethics / Aesthetics, Process / Product
4. The partecipatory paradigm
5. The birth of performance: the notion of event and the social performances (the universal and colonial expositions); the korperkultur
6. Performance and new dance: Monte Verità (Rudolph Laban, Mary Wigman, Loie Fuller, Ruth Saint Denis, Isadora Duncan)
7. Performance and the Vanguards (especially Futurism and Dadaism)
8. The performance in second part of twentieth century
9. Grotowski: the performer
10. Schechner (Dionysus in ’69)
11. The happening, art installations and the relationships between art and performance
12. The public art
13. The contemporary performing arts

The course is based on the following teaching methods:
1) Lectures
2) Slides, especially concerning visual and iconographic sources
3) View and comment of videos of theatrical plays and performances
4) Presence of external guests, both scholars and artists that works in the field od theatre and performing arts (actors, directors, stage managers, art directors)
5) Planning of theatrical plays selected from the theatres of Pavia and Milan to be viewed by the students.
6) Sharing of all teaching materials on the web-based platform Kiro

The course requires the knowledge by the student of the following reference texts, closely related to the contents of classroom lessons:


1. General texts:

a. FABRIZIO DERIU, Performatico. Teoria delle arti dinamiche, Bulzoni, Roma 2012
b. FABRIZIO FIASCHINI, Dionysus in 69: Richard Schechner tra teoria e prassi della performance, «Mantichora», 1, 2011, pp. 238-261 rivista on line (www.mantichora.it)
c. JERZI GROTOWSKI, Il performer, «Teatro e Storia», 1, 1988, pp. 165-169.

3. One of these books:

a. NICOLA SAVARESE, Teatro e spettacolo fra Oriente e Occidente, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001.
b. MARCO DE MARINIS, In cerca dell’attore, Bulzoni, Roma 2000.
c. LORENZO MANGO, La scrittura scenica. Un codice e le sue pratiche nel teatro del Novecento, Bulzoni, Roma 2003.

4. One of these books:

a. ROBERTO TESSARI, Teatro e antropologia. Tra rito e spettacolo, Carocci, Roma 2004.
b. EUGENIO BARBA, La canoa di carta. Trattato di antropologia teatrale, Il Mulino, Bologna 1993.
c. JERZJ GROTOWSKI, Per un teatro povero, Bulzoni, Roma 1970

5. One of these books

a. RICHARD SCHECHNER, Teoria della Performance, Bulzoni,Roma 1984
b. RICHARD SCHECHNER, Magnitudini della Performance, Bulzoni, Roma 1999
c. VICTOR TURNER, Dal rito al teatro, Il Mulino, Bologna 1984
d. VICTOR TURNER, Antropologia della Performance, Il Mulino, Bologna 1993

The oral exam aims to verify the knowledge and the skills acquired by the students about these didactic fields:
1) Lectures
2) Reference texts
3) Theatrical performances viewed by the students

The oral exam aims to verify the knowledge and the skills acquired by the students about these didactic fields:
1) Lectures
2) Reference texts
3) Theatrical performances viewed by the students