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The object on stage
...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 on a particular stage writing that uses, as a source of inspiration, the creative improvisation between actor and object. The aim of the seminar is to introduce or deepen actors, performers, dancers, and directors in the practice of object animation. It is a seminar on animation, that is, the act of pretending and making an object alive, natural, and instinctive. The object, which behaves like a person or an animal, lives through experiences that we do not have and could respond in ways we never would. Everyone does it as a child (and all parents do it too). The puppet is a safe way for us to experience thrills, adventures, stories of love and death. What we do in theater is a refined version aimed at an audience, but the desire to imagine life in an object on stage and to help someone else imagine life in that object presupposes certain principles and some rules. It is not a course for marionettes and puppets but for all inanimate matter that can appear on stage. A puppet is also an object and the principles for animating it are the same as those to start animating a stick of wood. The precision of the gesture that conveys the inner life of a puppet can be breathtaking, it immediately takes us out of everyday reality and into a world where anything is possible. Topics covered in the course -How to be beside things -How to convey movement and life to an inanimate object. -Apply to a foreign body the principles that regulate the use of the mask, breathing, and the analysis of movement engines. -Increase listening and the ability to dialogue with the unexpected -How to guide the spectator's gaze (in a condition of lack of human and expressive references) -"Diminish myself", die a little, to give life to that object or meaning I am acting -Matter and history -Objects produce ideas -Creation of a dramaturgy Annarita Colucci is an actress, performer, director, and theater teacher. In Rome, she obtained her professional diploma as an actress and assistant director at the International Academy and graduated in Performing Arts at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Since 2009 she has worked with the Ondadurtoteatro company with which she has participated in the most important international open-air theater festivals and in the squares of Europe, South America, and Asia, participates in international residencies, and continues her study and research on dance theater, acrobatics, and image theater. In 2012, together with Roberto Andolfi, she founded the Illoco Teatro company, active in Italy in figure and image theater. From October 2013 to 2018 she collaborated with the Department of Arts and Performing Sciences at La Sapienza. She coordinates, organizes, and leads the project "To make the theater I dreamed of."
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