March 5, 2008

WELLINGTON, MARCH 29+30: Commedia dell’Arte workshop

This workshop is designed for professional theatre artists, drama teachers or students wishing to develop their skills in the style of Commedia.

Commedia dell’Arte is the theatrical play of urgency and survival: a physical celebration of rhythm, attitudes and improvisational madness.

The workshop proposes an introduction into the world of Commedia dell’Arte, and will touch upon the following themes, in order to reach the level of play that the mask requires.

– The Body in the Space and the levels of playing.

– The play of urgencies: animal states, humans passions and the poetry of survival.

– The analysis of the mask as a moving structure in the space: forms, trajectories, dynamic oppositions, mask and "contre"-mask.

– The essential types of Traditional Commedia.

– Lazzi and "botta e risposta" (action and reaction) as the basis of improvisation in Commedia dell’Arte.

$195 ($165 conc) Deposit of $50 to be paid by 15 March.

Enrolment and information contact Greg Goodyer : ggoodyer@hotmail.com Mob: +64 0212674986

For further info on all workshops visit: www.giovannifusetti.com

Giovanni Fusetti was a student, pedagogical assistant and improvisation teacher at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. He co-founded and served as pedagogical director of KIKLOS International School of Theatre Creation in Padua, Italy, and is now developing the school’s new form: HELIKOS. Giovanni has taught and collaborated internationally with theatre companies, schools and universities including Naropa University (Boulder, CO), LISPA: London International School of Performing Arts (London), Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre (Blue Lake, CA). Giovanni’s 20 years of pedagogical research includes training in Theatre in Education, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Wutao and Process Work. His pedagogy integrates physical theatre with different practices of physical and emotional awareness.