28139 - Eastern Theatres (LM)

Learning outcomes

After this coursestudent has acquire knowledge about the origins and development of Asians theaters. The student is able to recognize the fundamental principles of theater in Asia and to understand the relationship between Eastern and Western theatre. The student develops skills in research and interpretation of main types of Asian theater.

Course contents

First module:
The course aims to investigate, by means of a preliminary anthropological contextualization, the codification of theatrical knowledge in Asia.
In particular we'll observe the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge from master to pupil through the centuries, and the consequent relationship between tradition and modernity in Japanese nōtheater, studying the Treatises of Zeami (fifteenth century).

Second module:
Asian scenes are often populated by gods and demons, brave heroes opposed by powerful but petty and greedy antagonists, celestial nymphs and spirits of folklore, which often coexist in a lack of distinction between high and low, courtly and vulgar, positive and negative.
The mise-en-scène of the myth, the epic and the folklore will be the red thread along which various theatrical and cultural models will be presented. A study of these issues will also be reported to Japanese pop culture (anime and manga).

Readings/Bibliography

ProgramExamination: 6 CFU forattending students
Giovanni Azzaroni – Matteo Casari, Asia il teatro che danza, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2011.

Casari Matteo, Teatro nō. La via dei maestri e la trasmissione dei saperi, CLUEB, Bologna 2008.

 

Program examination: 6 CFU forworking groupsduring lessons
Attending students may choose to participate in working groups carrying out activities in-depth on some topics of the course. For these students the program examination is:

Matteo Casari, Teatro nō. La via dei maestri e la trasmissione dei saperi, CLUEB, Bologna 2008.

3 chapters of your choice of  Giovanni Azzaroni – Matteo Casari, Asia il teatro che danza, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2010.

 

ProgramExamination: 12 CFU forattending students
Giovanni Azzaroni – Matteo Casari, Asia il teatro che danza, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2011.

Casari Matteo, Teatro nō. La via dei maestri e la trasmissione dei saperi, CLUEB, Bologna 2008.

A textof your choice:

Giovanni Azzaroni, a cura di, Rāma VS Bāli. Dei e demoni giocano la guerra, CLUEB, Bologna, 2007.

Alessandra Consonni, a cura di, ‘Cham Yig. Il libro tibetano delle danze, CLUEB, Bologna, 2008.

A textof your choice:

Giuseppe Tucci, a cura di, Il libro tibetano dei morti, TEA, Milano, 1999 (o successive edizioni).

R.K. Narayan,Il Ramayana raccontato da R.K. Narayan, Guanda, Parma, 1990 (o successive edizioni).

 

Program examination: 12 CFU for working groups during lessons
Attending students may choose to participate in working groups carrying out activities in-depth on some topics of the course. For these students the program examination is:

Giovanni Azzaroni – Matteo Casari, Asia il teatro che danza, Le Lettere, Firenze.

Matteo Casari, Teatro nō. La via dei maestri e la trasmissione dei saperi, CLUEB, Bologna 2008.

A textof your choice:

Giovanni Azzaroni, a cura di, Rāma VS Bāli. Dei e demoni giocano la guerra, CLUEB, Bologna, 2007.

Alessandra Consonni, a cura di, ‘Cham Yig. Il libro tibetano delle danze, CLUEB, Bologna, 2008.

 

Not attendingstudents will also have to prepare on a text chosen from:

Antonio Attisani, Fiabe teatrali del tibet, Titivillus, Pisa, 1996.

Matteo Casari, Teatro, vita di Mei Lanfang. Con la traduzione integrale di Addio mia concubina, CLUEB, Bologna, 2003.

Katja Centonze, ed., Avant-gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butō: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010.

Giorgio Renato Franci, Induismo,  il Mulino, Bologna, 2005.

Alessandro Guidi, Lo Yueji. Il pensiero musicale nelle Cina antica, CLUEB, Bologna, 2005.

Rolf A. Stein, La civiltà tibetana, Einaudi, Torino, 1998.

Zeami Motokiyo, Il segreto del teatro nō, Adelphi, Milano, 1987.

 

Teaching methods

The teaching will be a balanced mix of theoretical and practical examples, in anthropological context, in order to allow all students to be able to reach the final target .

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Teaching tools

Dance performances videos relating to the topics presented during the course.

Links to further information

http://www.spettacolodalvivo.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Matteo Casari