41888 - Perfoming Arts

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the history of social theater and its influences in education and rehabilitation; knows the theatrical experiences organized in places of social marginality; knows some laboratory instruments

Course contents

In the context of the medical humanities, healing processes are also nurtured and discussed in contact with the performing arts disciplines. At the same time, the questions of reality and care have forced theatre and dance to rethink their tools. In this course we will investigate this specific median territory through the analysis of practices and methodologies that compensate for situations of discomfort through the "being there" of theatre (Guccini) and by "bringing back to unity" scraps of personal stories (Pontremoli).

We start from some fundamentals theories about educational and social theatre, in search of definitions to describe the field of our investigation, reconsidering the historiographic and scientific contributions on the relationship between care and the performing arts. After a few historical outlines on Italian theatre experiences, we will focus on the work of Giuliano Scabia (1935-2021), also delving into the methodological principles of some working tools such as psychodrama and Theatre of the Oppressed.

The study horizons thus opened up will be "verified" and accompanied through workshop-like moments that will make use of autobiographical writing techniques, group narration and dramatisation.

Finally, through theoretical-practical seminars, students will meet with national practitioners and scholars in the field of theatre and healing (the final schedule of which will be available from the end of October).

Readings/Bibliography

The examination bibliography consists of a compulsory general monograph and some articles on the work of Giuliano Scabia.

In the course of the lectures, in-depth materials will be presented that will make up a course handout to accompany and support the lectures, recommended for those attending and compulsory for those not attending, who will also be provided with additional texts from the list below.

 

Book

Francesca Fava, Il teatro come metodo educativo. Una guida per educatori e professionisti sociosanitari, Roma, Carocci Faber, 2018

Essays

Giuliano Scabia, Marco Cavallo. Una esperienza di animazione teatrale in un ospedale psichiatrico, Turin, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1978 (pp. 5-8; 11-21; 32-35; 65-73; 123-134, available in the handout).

Massimo Marino, Il poeta d'oro. Il gran teatro immaginario di Giuliano Scabia, Florence, La casa usher, 2023 (chapter Marco Cavallo lotta per gli esclusi, pp. 62-87, available in the lecture notes).

Handout (recommended)

Lorenzo Donati (ed.), Theatres between art and care, handout available on Virtuale from the first day of class

The materials in the handout are taken from the following bibliography (not compulsory, an additional specific reading programme for non-frequent attendees will be indicated from this list)

1. Ivonne Donegani, Gabriella Gallo, Angela Tolomelli, La scena terapeutica del teatro, «Narrare i gruppi», vol. 11, n. 1, maggio 2016
2. Gerardo Guccini e Marco Menini (ed.), Curare il teatro. Il Laboratorio permanente di Nerval Teatro ad Armunia, ETS, Pisa, 2019 (particularly Maurizio Lupinelli, Autori di se stessi, pp. 55-60 and Gerardo Guccini, Il Laboratorio Permanente di Maurizio Lupinelli: premesse immediate e antecedenti storici, pp. 81-84, entrambi disponibili in dispensa)
3. Stefano Masotti, Per un teatro stabile delle condizioni differenti, verso un teatro dell’arte: l’esperienza del laboratorio-scuola e della Compagnia teatrale ZeroFavole (R.E.), «Nuovi arti terapie», n. 27. n.1, 2009 [https://www.nuoveartiterapie.net/la-rivista/numero-27/]
4. Claudio Meldolesi, Forme dilatate del dolore. Tre interventi sul teatro di interazioni sociali, «Teatro e Storia», vol. 33, (nuova serie IV) annale 2012 [https://www.teatroestoria.it/pdf/33/33-20-MELDOLESI.pdf]
   
   

Dispensa Reader

1. Lorenzo Donati (ed.), Teatri fra arte e cura, available from december 2022
   
   Materials in the Dispensa are taken from the following bibliography (not mandatory):

• Claudio Bernardi, Teatro sociale. L'arte tra disagio e cura, Carrocci editore, 2004 Roma
• Cecilia Carponi, Andrea Porcheddu (ed.), La malattia che cura il teatro. Esperienza e teoria nel rapporto tra scena e società, Dino Audino Editore, Roma, 2020
• Ivana Conte (ed.), Il pubblico del teatro sociale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2012
• Roberto Cuppone (ed.), Catarsi. Storie ed esperienze di un teatro-che-cura. Atti del Convegno (Vicenza, 25-26 ottobre 2013), Laboratorio Olimpico Atti, 2013
• Flavia Dalila D’Amico, Lost in Translation. Le disabilità in scena, Bulzoni, Roma, 2021
• Marco De Marinis, Il teatro dell'altro. Interculturalismo e transculturalismo nella scena contemporanea, La casa usher, Firenze, 2012
• Gerardo Guccini (ed.), Verso un teatro degli esseri, dossier in «Prove di drammaturgia», XII, n. 1, 2001
• Stefano Masotti, Identità reali in situazioni di rappresentazione, in «Antropologia E Teatro. Rivista Di Studi», n. 1, 2010
• Id., Arte Teatrale, Pedagogia Teatrale e Cura, in Pierangelo Bordignon, Gloria Burbello, Stefano Masotti, Carlo Presotto (a cura di), Paradiso. Diario di una ricerca teatrale e umana in Babilonia Teatri, libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni, Padova, 2019.
• Giulia Innocenti Malini, Breve storia del teatro sociale in Italia, Cue Press, Imola, 2021
• Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione, Alberto Pagliarino (ed.), Fare teatro sociale. Esercizi e progetti, Roma, Dino Audino, 2007
• Giuliano Scabia (ed.), Marco Cavallo. Una esperienza di animazione in un ospedale psichiatrico, Einaudi, Torino, 1976
• id. Chi è la cura? Per Cristina Giglioli, cardiologa. Scritti, disegni, fotografie, partiture raccolti da Giuliano Scabia, La conchiglia di Santiago, San Miniato, 2021
• Alessandro Pontremoli, Teoria e tecniche del teatro educativo e sociale, UTET, Torino 2007
• Id. Elementi di teatro educativo, sociale e di comunità, Utet, Torino, 2014
• Andrea Porcheddu, Cosa c’è da guardare? La critica di fronte al teatro sociale d’arte, Cue Press, Imola, 2017
• Cristina Valenti, Dall’animazione ai teatri delle disabilità, in «Art’ò», n. 14, estate 2003
• Loredana Simoncini e Stefano Masotti, Una terza area di intervento: il paradigma dell’emozione narrativa in «Antropologia E Teatro. Rivista Di Studi», n. 3, 2012
• Victor Turner, Dal rito al teatro, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1986

Teaching methods

Lectures;
workshop group work through expressive restitution techniques, autobiographical writing, group narration, role playing and dramatisation;
practical-theoretical seminars led by external experts (directors, trainers, national theatre and care scholars)

Assessment methods

The verification of learning is closely linked to the assiduity of attendance and active participation in the work proposed in the classroom, the importance of which is emphasised. Some practical workshop-type exercises, with small theatrical and expressive outcomes (writing, drawing, dramatisation, etc.) will accompany the lessons. During the course, students will be asked to keep track of their work by means of a written diary, which will be handed in and discussed on the day of the exam as an integral part of the course and in the context of the proposed bibliographical horizons.

During the examination, which will last between 15 and 20 minutes, the extent to which candidates:

• possess the proposed knowledge (bibliography and insights presented during the lectures)
• are able to articulate a personal reasoning, also as a result of participation and interaction with the course exercises proposed during the lectures and in the light of what they have learnt during the degree course
• are able to translate the knowledge learned into operational principles and skills to be used in the present and future of the profession.

Teaching tools

Lessons will use of audio-visual materials, paper, oral and media sources. The use of the e-learning platform for sharing study materials is foreseen.

Office hours

See the website of Lorenzo Donati