28126 - Theories and Cultures of Representation (LM)

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Marco De Marinis
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-ART/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Marco De Marinis (Modulo 1) Gerardo Guccini (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music and Theatre Studies (cod. 8837)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student acquires basic multidisciplinary theoretical-methodological instruments and skills necessary for the learning and understanding of theatrical facts (included the musical ones), taking into account an essential intercultural and trans-cultural consideration of the live performance. Moreover, the student obtains deep knowledge about theatrical study (included the musical one) and about theatrical theory, without disregard the nowadays necessary intercultural and trans-cultural consideration of the live performance, a knowledge which includes also the perspectives and contributes belonging to the ‘hard science', in addition to those belonging to history and humanities. The student obtains sophisticated theoretical-methodological instruments of multidisciplinary range, essential for future artistic, critical and organizational responsibilities in the field of the live performance.



Course contents

THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
I. MODULE: NEW THEATROLOGY AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES. A DIALOG BETWEEN TWO TRADITIONS OF THEATRE STUDIES
Inizio: 2 febbraio 2015

II. MODULE: THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY SCENE
Inizio: 13 aprile 2015

Readings/Bibliography

Program and texts.

Program for 6 credits (one module):
- M. De Marinis, Capire il teatro. Lineamenti di una nuova teatrologia, Roma, Bulzoni, new ed. 2008
- F. Deriu, Performatico. Teoria delle arti dinamiche, Roma, Bulzoni, 2012

- Lesson's notes or another book in the bottom  list

Program for 12 credits (I and II module):
- M. De Marinis, Capire il teatro. Lineamenti di una nuova teatrologia, Roma, Bulzoni, New ed. 2008
and 3 books in this list:
- F. Deriu, Performatico. Teoria delle arti dinamiche, Roma, Bulzoni, 2012
- A. Cascetta, ed., Il teatro verso la performance, "Comunicazioni Sociali", XXXVI, 1, 2014 (Ed. Vita e Pensiero)
- E. Fischer-Lichte, Estetica del performativo, Roma, Carocci, 2014 (forthcoming)
- R. Schechner, Magnitudini della performance, Roma, Bulzoni, 1999
- V. Turner, Antropologia della performance, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993.
- Lesson's notes
or another book in the list above.

Teaching tools

Audiovisual documents and web sites.

Office hours

See the website of Marco De Marinis

See the website of Gerardo Guccini