32158 - Theatre Laboratory (1)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student: - knows and deepens the performative, organizational, managerial and artistic-professional aspects related to theater disciplines, favoring practical experience (acting and management of the body in motion); - can integrate practical experience with historical, theoretical and critical knowledge.

Course contents

Practical dance workshop
in collaboration with Elisa Pagani*

The Theatre Laboratory (1) aims to offer the students a practical experience of dance workout, focusing in particular on the choreographic process, thanks to the approach to the work of the choreographer Elisa Pagani, director of the DNA Company (www.dnamove.com).

How to write and create a contemporary dance performance? DNA's creative strategy proposes a fertile pattern that fits into the dancer body and into the narrative needs of choreutic creation. As DNA changes and evolves from the conservation of a generative error, the starting point of the creative process is a biomechanical task, a delivery to be explored, which allows the weaving of the choreographic material which will then be forged and modeled to create the narrative landscape. Components ofevolution and creative development are the acceptance of the slip and the unexpected change, as an opportunity to discover a dynamics till that moment ignored, which turns out to be more efficient, functional and progressive. A dance made up of attempts at salvation, authenticity and honesty, in which the truth is welcomed in favor of an instinctive and ecological aesthetic. The dancer is immersed in a shared system that constantly transforms himself, a dynamic environment within which the body is danced. It inevitably welcomes the audience into the telling as an active, involved, ingested observer. In that act of restoring visibility to the realities that already exist within each of us, but not having their own language, there's the key to read DNA creations.


Calendar
Lessons will be held from February 2023, according to the schedule in this page. They will take place at the DAMSLab Theatre (Piazzetta P.P. Pasolini, 5/b - Bologna).

 

Registration procedure

To participate in the Laboratory you must send to Elena Cervellati (e.cervellati@unibo.it) an email with which you ask to enroll in, indicating your name and surname, serial number, degree course attended. The request must be sent by Friday, February 10, 2023.

Prior knowledge is not required to access the Workshop, since the proposed activity is designed to accommodate people with different skills, who have never had experience in the field of dance practice or who have already undertaken a course of study.

 

 

* ELISA PAGANI started as a choreographer in 2005, working with theatre and dance theatre directors.

From 2012 to 2015 she has been the artistic director of the contemporary dance department at the Accademia del Teatro dell’Antoniano in Bologna, Italy.

She is now the Artistic Director and choreographer of DNA, a contemporary dance company which she founded in 2013, now supported and promoted by cultural association DaNzA, affiliated with Bologna city council and MIC. Since then, the company has been working in Italy and abroad, intersecting artistic production with professional training projects, seminars and community dance, in collaboration with some of the most important Italian and foreign partners, as Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (UK), Accademia Nazionale della Danza, Scenario Pubblico – Compagnia Zappalà Danza, FND – Aterballetto, Napoli Teatro Festival, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Università if Bologna, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, MAST - Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia, Florence Dance Festival, Radialsystem - Sasha Waltz and Guests (DE), Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK), BIG STORIES (ES), University of the Arts in Tirana, ISIA (Pesaro Urbino), Liceo Coreutico in Mantova, Università of Padova.
From 2016 to 2022 she is at the head of Alma PRO, the professional contemporary dance department of Alma Studios in Bologna.

Readings/Bibliography

Useful (but not mandatory) readings:

• Elena Cervellati, Storia della danza, Pearson, Torino 2020

• Elena Randi, Il corpo pensato. Teorie della danza nel Novecento, Dino Audino, Roma 2020

Suggestions for further readings and insights will be given during the course.

Teaching methods

The Laboratory offers a practical experience of dance training, based on the methodology developed by Elisa Pagani. The practical lessons will be complemented by the viewing of some video extracts of performances, appropriately introduced and analyzed in the classroom.

Attendance at the Laboratory requires participation in the Training Course on Safety in Places of Study, in e-learning mode [https://elearning-sicurezza.unibo.it/].

Assessment methods

The Theatre Laboratory, like other similar activities, does not provide for a profit examination. The constant and active participation in the lessons, monitored by the attendance register, will then determine the achievement of fitness.
To qualify, it is essential to attend at least 80% of classes. For students and students who have attended less than 80% of the lessons it will not be possible to proceed to the verbalization of the Theatre Laboratory.

Teaching tools

Projection of video materials, reading and analysis of texts.

Office hours

See the website of Elena Cervellati