Theater workshop: Places: living testimonies
The Cultural Institutes and the Department of Human Sciences of the University of San Marino are promoting a citizenship education program that uses the language of theatre as its primary research tool. This program includes the revival of the theatre workshop—successfully launched in 2017—led by actor and theatre researcher Silvio Castiglioni.
The project's goal is to deepen a process of reflection through a structured proposal, capable of grafting itself onto the local area, becoming a cultural event for the entire community, an opportunity for everyone to enrich themselves and develop themselves through the narration of places and spaces that are part of San Marino's identity.
Furthermore, the staging of the work will have the dramaturgical support of the poet Franca Mancinelli and the dancer Veronika Aguglia, in a work of continuous stimulation and exchange with the participants to provide useful elements for the adaptation of texts and bodywork intended for the stage.
Silvio Castiglioni, Actor and theater researcher, with a degree in philosophy, founder of the CRT in Milan and artistic director of the Santarcangelo Festival. He has worked with, among others, Eugenio Barba, Raùl Ruiz, and Federico Tiezzi. He has staged productions based on texts by N. Revelli, A. Zanzotto, S. D'Arzo, F. Dostoevsky, A. Manzoni, N. Pedretti, and R. Baldini. His latest works include: Casa Ghizzardi: mi ricordo anchora, for the Milan Triennale, and Concerto per Jack London, with Fabrizio Bosso. For many years, he directed the Center for Social and Community Dramaturgy at the CRT in Milan. He currently teaches theater at the Catholic University of Brescia and the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan.
Franca Mancinelli is the author of poetry books Mala kruna (Manni, 2007), Sourdough (with a note by Milo De Angelis, Nino Aragno, 2013), Transit booklet (Amos editions, 2018), published in English translation by The Bitter Oleander Press (Fayetteville, New York) with the title The Little Book of Passage. A re-edition of his first two books is collected in An hour's sleep from here (Italic Pequod, 2018). His texts are included in the anthology New Italian poets 6, edited by Giovanna Rosadini (Einaudi, 2012) and, with an introduction by Antonella Anedda, in XIII Italian Notebook of Contemporary Poetry, edited by Franco Buffoni (Marcos y Marcos, 2017).
Veronika Aguglia is a dancer who practices the art of movement and choreography through research related to theater and its possible connections with the languages of the visual and performing arts. She studies with national and international choreographers including Simona Bertozzi, Cindy Van Acker, Roberta Mosca, Miriam Gourfink, and Kat Velazur. In Ravenna, she graduated from the professional dancer course with a specialization in choreography at IDA (International Dance Association), directed by Emanuela Tagliavia, and trained with teachers Paolo Mohovic, Silvie Bidegain, Laura Moro, Davide Montagna, and Lorella Rapisarda. In Italy, she studies with teachers Lorand Zachard, Hervè Diasnas, Lindsey Kemp, Cristina Rizzo, Raffaella Giordano, and Frey Faust.
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The project is aimed at anyone who feels the need to explore the language of theatre as a tool for knowledge that enables the development of new forms of active participation and social cohesion. Participants will become authors of a narrative built on living testimonies connected to the San Marino region: locations and spaces in the historic center, Borgo Maggiore, and Mount Titano will be used to jointly create a theatrical event.
Duration: The course will consist of 90 hours of laboratory work and will be structured as follows:
Saturday, December 7, 2019, 10:30 a.m. – presentation of the project and collection of registration fees, at the Department of Human Sciences of the University of San Marino (via Napoleone Bonaparte, n. 3 – San Marino City) followed by meetings at the Teatro Nuovo di Dogana approximately during the following weekends in 2020:
Friday, January 24th from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday, January 25th from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 14:30 to 17:30
Saturday, February 15th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday, February 16th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Saturday, February 29th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday, March 1st, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Friday 6 March from 17.00 to 21.00
Saturday, March 7th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Friday 20 March from 17.00 to 21.00
Saturday, March 21th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Saturday, April 18th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday, April 19th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Friday, April 24th from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 25th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday, April 26th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Attendance fee: €100,00 (one hundred/00); €50,00 (fifty/00) for those under 18 and university students; the fee must be paid on Saturday, December 7th at the presentation.
The project is taken care of from the Cultural Institutes – Performing Arts and the Theatre and Citizenship Research and Teaching Centre of the University of the Republic of San Marino.
For information and registration: Marilena Stefanoni tel. 0549 88 24 55 marilena.stefanoni@pa.sm
Maddalena Lonfernini, tel 0549 887007 maddalena.lonfernini@unirsm.sm