85122 - ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE SCENE (1) (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the course, students will have acquired knowledge of the theoretical and critical reflections on the performing arts in Italy from the second half of the twentieth century to the first decade of the new millennium, with a particular focus on mise-en-scène and dance. Students will be capable of autonomously analysing critical, theoretical and poetic texts regarding the performing arts and will have acquired a series of tools for understanding pertinent iconographic and video documents.

Contenuti

What is performance? How is it related to its cultural and historical context? What defines the “Italian” Performance Scene? Rather than searching for an ontological definition of the “Italian” performance scene, the course will focus on an historical reconstruction of the performative genres that developed in Italy since the Sixties questioning the culture the theatre forms reacted to or contributed producing in the specific circumstances of their inception through specific case studies.

After a short methodological introduction on theatre and performance studies, the connection between the aesthetic trends and the Italian changing cultural and political context will be illustrated. Finally, a focus will be devoted to Italian social theatre.

 

 

Testi/Bibliografia

Attending students:

a. Valentina Valentini, New Theatre in Italy (1963-2013), Routledge, London and New York, 2017, pp. 1-108.

b. Reader: Italian Contemporary Performance: Methodology and case studies, 2019-2020, pp. 200 (available on the e-learning course page.).

C. Notes from class and extracts from primary sources either available on https://nuovoteatromadeinitaly.sciami.com/en/ or shared on the e-learning course page

Non-attending students:

a.Valentina Valentini, New Theatre in Italy (1963-2013), Routledge, London and New York, 2017, pp. 1-108.

b. Reader: Italian Contemporary Performance: Methodology and case studies, 2019-2020, pp. 200 (available on the e-learning course page.).

C. extracts from primary sources available on https://nuovoteatromadeinitaly.sciami.com/en/ or shared on the e-learning website.

D. In addition for non-attending students: 1) Carlson, Marvin (1996), Performance: A Critical Introduction, London, Routledge, 1996, pp. 1-6.

Metodi didattici

Lectures and seminars led by the teacher.

The https://iol.unibo.it/ platform will also be used to share material with the students. Both attending and non-attending students are required to access the e-learning course website for study material, calendar and communications.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Attending students:

Students will have to pass an oral exam, with questions aimed at verifying the student's knowledge of the themes treated in the program's texts and in class. Questions will be aimed at testing both the student's ability in exposing with an appropriate language the topics tackled by the bibliographical material and their skills in making connections between the aesthetic forms and their cultural background. In order to do it, they will need to go over the videos, primary sources and iconographic material shared in class.

Students attending classes (at least 80% of the course) will prepare a powerpoint presentation that they are expected to hand it in at least 8 days before the exam date. Their final exam will be completed by an individual conversation, moving from their powerpoint presentation to some topics from the full syllabus.

Non-attending students are requested to hand in a five-page essay before the exam date, completed by a final bibliography. The subject has to be agreed on with the teacher after a first reading of the bibliographical material. Their final exam will be completed by an individual conversation moving from their essay to some topics from the full syllabus. Non-attending students will also use online video, primary and iconographic sources to be able to refer to the specific performances quoted in the bibliographical material.

Assessment criteria:

Proper language and the ability to critically speak about the book and reader contents, as well as the capacity to make connections will lead to a good/excellent final grade.

Acceptable language and the ability to resume the books' content will lead to a sufficient/fair grade.

Insufficient linguistic proficiency and fragmentary knowledge of the bibliographical material will lead to a failure in passing the exam.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Performances and artistic processes will be discussed in class with reference to a rich audio-visual documentation, primary and critical bibliography.

Orario di ricevimento

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