1st year
Acting Tecniques I
The Ancient Tragedy
- Stage presence – Neutral mask
- Tragic Monologue - Text Analysis
- Myths and Rituals
- The Greek tragedy: Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles
Narrative Techniques
- Eastern and Western fairy tales and stories
- Mysteries and Sacred Representations
- Narration/mime
- Audience calling and storytelling
- Character study
- Anthropology of gesture - The archetypes
- Larval masks of Basel
- Character and counter-character development: Lecoq method
- Character development: Stanislavski method - Strasberg
- Character development in the Authors Theatre
Modern drama
- Poetry acting
- Great feelings
- The modern drama: cinema and theatre
- Psychology and Environments
- Theatre of narration
- Melodrama comedy
2st year
Acting Tecniques II
Commedia dell'Arte
- Improvisation theatre and The human comedy
- The half-masks of the Commedia dell’Arte
- Characters, plots, lazzi and theatrical scenario
- Farcical themes - Basic needs
- Binary and modular relationships
Molière
- From Commedia dell’Arte to Authors Comedy
- Cultural Archetypes and Satire
- The Illustrious Théâtre
- Satire of the bourgeois class
- Satire of the ecclesiastical class
- Satire of the medical class
Comedy - Irony
- Comedy: mechanisms and dysfunctions
- "Comedic timing"- The "gag"
- Technique of improvisation
- The theatrical clown - The comic couple
- The anomaly, the detachment, the innocence
- The allegorical - The grotesque - The deformation
- The medieval and modern buffoon
Shakespeare - Theatre and Cinema
- Tragedies and Comedies
- Monologues - Dialogues
- Text analysis - Verses and Prose
- The role of the "fool"
- Power, madness, misunderstanding, premonition
- Catharsis - Scene and byplay
3rd year Acting Tecnique III
The Modern Theatre - The 1900’s
- A. Chekhov - H. Ibsen - A. Strindberg
- F. G. Lorca - L. Pirandello - J. Genet
- F. Dürrenmatt - B. Strauss
- The avant-garde and the Figurative Arts
- The Dadaist Theatre - Surrealist - Futurist
- J. Cocteau - V. Majakovskij
- The Theatre of Cruelty: Artaud
- The Epic Theatre: Brecht
- The Theatre of the Absurd - The "Nonsense"
- A. Jarry - S. Beckett - E. Ionesco
- G. Perec - H. Pinter - R. Queneau
- The Absurd in the cinema: Monty Python
The Modern Comedy
- Situational and repetition Comedy
- Theatre within Theatre - Style Exercises
- The English farce: O. Wilde, M. Frayn, R. Cooney, P. Shaffer
- Edwardian Comedy
- The Comedy: noir, brilliant, grotesque
Satire and Parody in current affairs
- Cultural Satire: current affairs
- Imitation - Caricature - Parody
- Picture and Frame
- Cartoon and Comics
- Sociology of Media - Dysfunctions
1st year Film Acting
Acting: Stanislavskij - Strasberg
- Concentration, observation, attention
- Psychological and behavioral analysis
- The "if" and the given circumstances
- Character Motivation
- Analytical Memory - Sense Memory - Affective Memory
- Public character / Private character
- Dramatic action and narrative flow
- Non-consequential Acting
- Audition techniques
- Acting on camera
- Arthouse cinema repertoire
- Framing: shot and reverse-shot
- Close up and extreme close up acting
2nd year Film Acting
Acting and New Media
- Web series and Television series
- Writing Techniques
- Shooting techniques
- Site specific
1st/2nd years Techniques of improvisation I and II
- Eastern and Western fairy tales and stories
- Movement and gestures
- Word and sound
- Great feelings and imagination
- Improvisation
- Deconstructing gesture
- Non-verbal language
- Silent zones
1st Year Orthoepia of the Italian language
- Phonology - Pronunciation
- Hyphenation - Phrasing
- Diction - Orthoepy
- Tonal height, Stress and Emphasis
- Altering - Deformation
1st Year Reading Techniques
- Cold reading and Dramatic reading
- Intentions and subtext
- Verse and prose reading
- Soliloquy - Monologue - Dialogue
1st/2ndYear
Phono-articulatory and resonatory voice output techniques I and II
- Rhythm - involuntary breathing
- Voice projection: sound-conducting pathways
- Tonal height - Pitch - rhythm - modulation
- Natural breathing
- Autogenic training - energy
- Face mask - Voice training
- Timbre - Volume - Vocal range - Articulation
- Word from technique to expressive
- Organic voice body
- Onomatopoeic - "Grammelot"
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3rdYear Voice education
- Dramatic scores
- Onomatopoeia and Voicing
- Vocal deflection: falsetto, guttural, distortion
- Verbal automatisms - Assonances - Dragging of assonances
- Breaking and transforming feeling into speech
- The voice and theatrical styles
1st/2ndYear Poetic Acting I and II
- Tone - Rhythm - Volume
- Metric laws
- Rhythmic development
- Harmony
- Imagination - Visualization - Interpretation
- The sound of the evocative word
2ndYear Acting in English
- Drama
- Intonation and expressive reading
- Acting for set and stage
- Elements of the English language
Music and Singing Music and Singing 1st/2nd/3rdYear
- Solfeggio and Score reading
- Homogeneous sound and breathing
- Intonation and ranges
- Rhythmic and melodic exercises
- Jazz and vocalist improvisations
- Acting on musical score
- Musical - Recital
- Chorus singing - Songs from Repertoire
- Individual and group exercises
- Harmony and dissonance
Physical training: Expressive Movement 1st/2nd/3rdYear
- Techniques of relaxation
- Elements of yoga
- Bioenergetics
- Analysis and decomposition of movement
- The grammar of gesture
- Rhythm - Balance - Pulse
- Body expression
- Feldenkrais method
Elements of modern and contemporary dance 1st/2nd Year
- Supports - Thrusts - Transmissions
- Start points and falls
- Scores of movement
- Floorwork
- Spatial orientation and possible combinations
- Relation between body and space
- Energy - Time - Space
- Collective kinetic proposal
Elements of choreography 3rd Year
- Kinesphere
- Architecture of movement
- Body - Space - Quality - Shape
- Systems of composition
- Improvised macrosystems
- "Motion" of feelings
- Theatre and figurative arts
Mime and pantomime 1st Year
- Object handling and fixed point
- Imaginary objects - Everyday actions
- The abstract gesture: Decroux
- Segmentation and construction of mimic phrases: Marceau
- Actions (pull, push, etc.): Lecoq
- Pantomime white - accelerated - cartoonish - cinematic
- The great movements of the Lecoq Method (the raft, the discus thrower, etc.)
Acrobatics 2nd Year
- Elements of Thai Chi Chuan and Karate
- Somersaults, cartwheels, handstands, flips and acrobatic figures
- Accidents and acrobatic fights
- Levers - portair - human pyramids
- The gesture from common to acrobatic
- Elements and techniques of nouveau cirque
Makeup and Costume 1st Year
- Theatrical and cinematic make-up
- Theatrical and cinematographic costume design
- Fabrics and materials
Open Air Theatre 3rd Year
- Puppet Theatre
- Writing and screenplay
- Design and construction
- Architecture of performance space
- Manipulation and acting with objects
- Sets in motion
- Macro and micromanipulation
Textual analysts and dramaturgy 2nd Year
- Text Analysis
- Narratology
- Techniques of composition
- Plot and character development
- Staging Set up
- Dramaturgical construction
- Theater genres and acting methods
History of Theatre and Entertainment 1st/2nd/3rdYear
- Theatre as a rite
- The Greek tragedy
- The medieval theatre
- The Oriental Theatre
- The theatre of the Commedia dell’arte
- The Elizabethan Theatre
- The modern theatre
- The 1900’s and the Avant-garde
- The great authors of the history of theatre
- History of Directing
- History of theatre theories
- History of Mime
- History of Dance
- History of Cinema
Sector Organization 2nd/3rdYear
- Copyright and Image rights
- Project management of the show
- Marketing, communication, fundraising
- Production system of live entertainment, film and events
Psychology and Theatrical Pedagogy 3rdYear
- "Training"
- The theatre lesson
- The educational path
- Pedagogical criticism
- Group dynamics
Writing and Screenplay 1st/2nd/3rdYear
- Original scripts: plot development
- Structure and style
- Writing for the Puppet Theatre
- Writing of theatrical scenario
- Profile and story of a character
- Film writing
- Themes, time shifts
- The free adaptation: synthesis of a work
Direction - Stage direction 1st/2nd/3rdYear
- Techniques, styles and directorial languages
- The director’s function
- Structure of a show
- Choice of scenic languages
- Linear, analog, surreal productions
- Casting and direction of actors
- Stage architecture
- Music, costume and set design
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