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Laboratory Course “Intensive”
Acting

Structure and participation fee

The Courses are held in Classroom A and B of the "Circo Massimo" Didactic Center of the Accademia Internazionale di Teatro.

The course is organised in 9 intensive workshops that occurr on:
Saturday 9.00am - 1.00pm / 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Sunday 9.00am - 1.00pm / 2.00pm - 6.00pm

Partecipation fee:
Quarterly fee € 350
Annual membership fee € 60

Single weekend fee € 200
Annual membership fee € 60

1° Quarter

A.A. 2022/23

1° Stage: 22-23 October 2022
2° Stage: 5-6 November 2022
3° Stage: 17-18 December 2022

 Sat at 9-13 / 14-18
Sun at 9-13 / 14-18

2° Quarter

A.A. 2022/23

4° Stage: 7-8 January 2023
5° Stage: 11-12 February 2023
6° Stage: 4-5 March 2023

 Sat at 9-13 / 14-18
Sun at 9-13 / 14-18

3° Quarter

A.A. 2022/23

 7° Stage: 6-7 May 2023
8° Stage: 27-28 May 2023
9° Stage: 24-25 June 2023		 Sab ore 9-13 / 14-18
Dom ore 9-13 / 14-18

Calendar A.A. 2022/2023

1° Stage October 22th – 23th 2022
The stage presence - tragic monologue

  • Stage presence
  • Neutral mask
  • Chorus and Corifeo
  • Myth and Rite
  • Tragic monologue
  • Diaphragmatic breathing
  • Diction: vowels and consonants
  • Stamp - Volume
  • Dramatic reading

2° Stage November 5th - 6th 2022
Melò - Poetry - Modern Drama

  • Reciting poetry: great feelings
  • Modern drama
  • Psychology and environments
  • Exasperation and paradox of sentiment
  • The voice: sound channels, resonators
  • Hyphens - phrases - articulation
  • Poetic and dynamic of diction

3° Stage December 17th – 18th 2022
W. Shakespeare

  • Tragedies and Comedies
  • Monologues - Dialogues
  • The figure of the "fool"
  • Verses and prose
  • Power, madness, equivocation, premonition
  • Tonal height, accent, pause, intonation
  • Phonation in relation to movement - space
  • Text analysis
  • Scene and backstage

4° Stage January 7th – 8th 2023
Storytelling - Narrator/Mime - Mime e Pantomime

  • Oriental and Western tales and stories
  • Mysteries
  • Narrator / Mime
  • Call to the public
  • Mime - The art of gesture
  • Abstract movement
  • Pantomime (white, comics, accelerated)

5° Stage February 11th – 12th 2023
La Commedia dell'arte - Molière

  • The Comedy “all’improvviso”
  • Farce and jokes
  • Characters and plots
  • Molière: the archetypes
  • Improvisation on “canovaccio”
  • Zanni, Pantalone, the Doctor and the Captain
  • Author comedy

6° Stage March 4th – 5th 2023
The allegorical and modern Buffoon

  • Deformation
  • The buffoonish herd
  • The Metaphor
  • The Parody
  • The Grotesque
  • Use of the voice: laugh, cry
  • Speech alteration
  • M. De Ghelderode
  • Comedy and irony

7° Stage May 6th – 7th 2023
The Characters and Contra-Characters

  • Anthropology of the gesture
  • Types - Archetypes
  • Characterization technique
  • Character construction
  • The contra-embodiment: realism / stylization
  • Psychological and behavioral analysis
  • Dramatic action and narrative arc
  • Dramatic score
  • Sensory exercises
  • Analytic / affective / emotional memory
  • Exploration of motivations of the character
  • Identification, intention, subtext

8° Stage May 27th - 28th 2023
The theatrical Clown

  • The relationship with the public
  • The comic couple - The trio
  • The claim and the failure
  • Innocence, detachment
  • Mechanisms and dysfunctions
  • "Comic Timing"
  • Study of the "gag"
  • Improvisation technique
  • Peripheral vision

9° Stage June 24th – 25th 2023
The theatre of the Absurd

  • Excerpts from the authors of the 20th century: Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, Jarry, etc.
  • Excerpts from contemporary authors
  • Theater and visual arts
  • Dadaist and surrealistic coreographies
  • The relationship with the object
  • Dance-Theater

Registration details

  • No specific attitudes are required and there are no age limits.
  • For this course, weekends of intensive studies and rehearsals are planned in order to prepare recitals / performarces of of the Acting Academy.
  • Registrations for the first quarter (Oct-Dec 2022), are formalized starting from September 7th 2022, at the secretariat of the Academy, as follows:
  • Signature for acceptance of the theater course contract and regulation.
  • Delivery of two photo cards.
  • Delivery of a photocopy of a valid identity document.
  • Payment of the quarterly fee + membership registration.

 

Corso Intensivo Accademia Internazionale di Teatro

As in the best Acting Schools in Italy, the Academy also conducts courses in specialization or approach to acting. The Actor Course organized by the International Theater Academy is directed by the teachers themselves of also acting in the Academy's teaching modules those enrolled in the Acting Course have the right to attend the students' practical exams of the Academy of Theater. (RECITATION COURSE / THEATER SCHOOL) Quarterly students courses participate in the Academy's Evenings / Show, presenting their works conclusive at the theater. The themes of the "staging" concern the different stylistic acting forms plays: tragedies and comedies of author, narrative theater, fragmentary recitation of the Teatro dell'Assurdo.(CORSO TEATRO / SCUOLA RECITAZIONE / ACCADEMIA TEATRALE).