c/o Museo della Grancia
via Fratelli Rosselli
Serre di Rapolano Terme
53040 Siena Italy
General enquires
Santibriganti teatro
via Artisti 10
10124 Torino Italy
local organizer
mail - website
Faction of Fools
Washington DC USA
international coordinator
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Pictures from the Turin Event
Stefano Roggero photographer
Mario Gallo photographer
In Turin in the 2011 for the second edition the theatre company Santibriganti organizes a celebration day that gathers different artists and audience from the 5 continents.
The 'Commedia dell'Arte', symbol of italian and european renaissance theatre, today is still a reality with a large actors' community from all over the world that is playing with masks and their different languages. Among the guests Madame Lecoq, widow of the unforgettable master Jacques Lecoq (one of the first artists that relied his theatre researches and teaching on the use of mask) and Mimmo Cuticchio, from the tradition of the sicilian Pupi and Lo Cunto.
Besides, at the Garybaldi Theatre of Settimo Torinese (Torino), there will be the sixth edition of the MascheraFest festival (dedicated to Commedia dell’Arte e popular theatre traditions) with remarkable performances and prestigious artists.
We thank all the actors, masks' makers and theatre experts that will be in Turin and the people all over the world that coordinated by Faction of Fools (Washington DC - USA) will celebrate the second Commedia dell' Arte Day. At last, but not the least, we want to thank all the cultural institutions of Turin and the Piedmont Region for the collaboration.
Mauro Piombo Santibriganti Teatro
25th of February - h. 9.30-13
[Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti]
via Accademia Albertina 6 Torino
aula teatrino Scuola di Scenografia
La maschera e la scena
Origins and iconography, physiognomy and psycho-morphology of the masks of the Commedia dell'Arte. The engraving of masks in wood chops, materials and tools, the manufacturing of leathers.
Attended by Sfefano Perocco di Meduna (Ve) and Renzo Antonello (Vi)
25th of February - h. 10-24
[Cavallerizza]
Theatre Masks Exhibition
A unique exhibition of masks made by among the major italian craftsmen whose works keep alive the Commedia dell' Arte tradition.
Exhibitors
25th of February - h. 10,30
[Casa Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani]
Corso G. Ferrarsi 266, Torino
Maschera da Smascherare
Lecture - Performance about Commedia dell'Arte
Attended by Alessio Nardin. The lecture is open to Highschool's students with in collaboration with of Fondazione TRG
25 febbraio - Ore 14.30
[Cavallerizza]
.. e la Maschera si mise la Commedia
(.. and the mask wore the comedy)
Forum between the masks' craftsmen and the public
The peculiar relationship between the craftsman that sculptures a mask and the actor that makes it alive. The forum is led by the craftsmen present at the exhibition.
25 febbraio - ore 17.30
[Cavallerizza]
Tra‘compagnie fraternali’ e Fratelli d’Italia
Forum / led by prof. Roberto Tessari
Since threehundred years before the Italian unification the actors' companies of the Commedia dell'Arte built a world of shows that was admired all over Europe. The amazing masks and the melting pot of the italian dialects well mixed together were a fundamental vehicle and symbol of the unity that was going to have birth later on.
The use of different languages with the other multietnical tracts tipical of the more advance contemporary theater was anticipated centuries before by the copresence of the dialects in the old Commedia dell'Arte. Hosts: Madame Lecoq, Mimmo Cuticchio, Carlo Boso, Titino Carrara, Marco Rota, Filipe Crawford.
Because the unexpected and at the eleventh hour withdrawal of the contribution promised by the 'Piemonte Region administration' this part of the program has been deleted
25th of February - h. 16.45, 19.30 and 21.15
[Cavallerizza]
DI COMMEDIA IN COMMEDIA
Kermesse of theatre short performances about “Giuseppe Garibaldi-Unità d' Italia” as gift to 2011 celebration of 150 years Italy Unification.
Jokes, blunders, sneers: the Commedia dell' Arte masks tell about the italian Unification's 150 years.
participants:
26 Febbraio - ore
Lo Spirito dentro la Maschera
Lecture – Performance by Gianluca Bottoni e Silvia Giletti
Turin University – Corso Unione Sovietica 218 bis Turin
Sur – Società Umane Resistenti e Antropocosmos Rete Frontera
February/March
[Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti, via Accademia Albertina 6 Torino]
Le Maschere della Commedia dell’Arte
The Dramaturgy of the "Improvvisa"
Practical workshop of Commedia dell' Arte directed by Mauro Piombo. Actors, directors and teachers of international fame will attend: Carlo Boso (Theatre dell'Arte ……. Parigi), Adriano Iurissevich (Venezia in Scena), Massimo Macchiavelli (Fraternalcompagnia –Bo), Michele Modesto Casarin (Pantakin da Venezia), Marco Rota (Teatro Viaggio – Bg). The workshop is open to the students of Scienze della Formazione/DAMS Università di Torino with the contribution of CRUT - Centro Regionale Universitario per Il Teatro La Maschera e la Scena.
