Ateneo - UPO

The course will consist in a series of continuing workshops aimed at the collective writing, staging and producinh of a play in Italian. A series of activities and exercises will be proposed on improvisation, dramatic techniques, voice, body, posture, spatialisation, gesture, as well as elements of stage- and actors-direction. On the other hand, and depending on the profile of the students enrolled, the course intends to provide a series of techniques and tools useful as an introduction to FL teaching and learning performative methods, particularly for teachers-to-be, and elements of multicultural teaching through performative activities.

Cesare Molinari, Storia del teatro, Laterza, 2007.

Paolo Quazzolo, Conoscere il teatro, Marsilio, 2014.
Alain Viala, Histoire du théâtre, PUF, diverse edizioni
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, a cura di John Russell Brown, Oxford UP, 1995.
Ulteriori materiali saranno forniti a lezione.

- Improving Italian language skills (for Italian L2 or FL students) through orality and performativity of the language (with attention to proxemic and pragmatic aspects).
- Working on the language (also on written aspects) with a creative and task-oriented approach (writing a performative text).
- Providing a basic set of dramaturgical and staging techniques.
- (Depending on the audience) To illustrate and test a number of basic techniques of performative methods in teaching and learning FL and intercultural didactics through performance adressed to future teachers.
- Working in class groups towards a common goal.

None but a strong motivation.

Practical performative activities. Elements of theory derived from observation and practice.

Evaluation during the semester and through a final public performance. Class work, organisation of and participation in the final performance, constant commitment and group solidarity will be the parameters taken into account for the obtention of ECTS. A workshop diary will also be required. It has to be written according to the explanations which will be given in class.

The workshops aim to familiarise students with the different aspects of theatre work, on the text, on forms of writing and dramaturgy, on the body, on the voice, on creativity, on the more technical aspects of artistic staging, through a series of exercises and activities through which we will move from the theatrical idea to staging process. In parallel, we will work on oral and written language expression techniques in creative and communicative contexts, on the pragmatic and proxemic aspects of expression. (Depending on the audience) Through practice and reflection, the future teachers will experience a range of techniques of performative FL teaching and learning, useful for the renewal of inclusive pedagogical practices centred on the learner’s needs and on multiculturalism from a performative perspective.

- Experiencing how to work in group forms in ways that simulate the structure of a theatre company.
- Working creatively on the Italian language in order to construct a performance from a theatrical idea.
- Practising brainstorming, artistic co-construction, collective organisation.
- Constructing, staging, performing a play in public