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The Object on the Stage
"The Beauty is What the Eye Rediscovers in the World and What the Mind Already Knows."
Orhan Pamuk
"The Object on Stage" is a research workshop focusing on a particular form of stage writing that draws inspiration from the creative improvisation between actor and object. The aim of the seminar is to introduce or deepen the skills of actors, performers, dancers, and directors in the practice of object animation.
It is a seminar on animation—that is, the act of pretending and enabling an object to appear alive, natural, and instinctive. The object, behaving like a person or an animal, experiences things we do not and may respond in ways we never would. All children do this (as do all parents). The puppet provides a safe way for us to experience thrills, adventures, stories of love and death. What we do in the theater is a refined version of this, aimed at an audience. Yet the desire to imagine life in an object on stage and to help someone else imagine life in that object involves certain principles and rules.
This is not a course on puppetry or marionettes but rather on all inanimate materials that may appear on stage. A puppet is also an object, and the principles for animating it are the same as those for bringing a wooden stick to life.
The precision of gesture that conveys the inner life of a puppet can be breathtaking, immediately taking us out of everyday reality and
into a world where anything is possible.
Topics Covered in the Workshop:
How to relate to objects.
How to impart movement and life to an inanimate object.
Applying the principles of mask work, breath, and the analysis of movement dynamics to an external body.
Enhancing listening skills and the ability to engage with the unexpected.
How to guide the audience’s gaze (in a context lacking human and expressive references).
"Diminishing myself," dying a little, to bring life to the object or meaning I am acting out.
Material and storytelling.
Objects generate ideas.
Creating dramaturgy.
Annarita Colucci is an actress, performer, director, and theater educator. In Rome, she earned a professional diploma as an actress and assistant director at the Accademia Internazionale and graduated in Performing Arts at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Since 2009, she has worked with the Ondadurto Teatro company, performing at major international theater festivals in open-air spaces and city squares across Europe, South America, and Asia. She participates in international residencies and pursues research in dance theater, acrobatics, and visual theater. In 2012, she co-founded the Illoco Teatro company with Roberto Andolfi, which is active in Italy in the fields of puppet and visual theater. From October 2013 to 2018, she collaborated with the Department of Arts and Performing Sciences at La Sapienza. She coordinates and organizes the project "To Create the Theater I Have Dreamed Of.
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