ID:
509747
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
DISCIPLINE DELLO SPETTACOLO
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the critical-interpretive categories with which to understand contemporary actor/actress culture and languages. It will focus on the analysis of the theories and pedagogical methods of Western acting experiences that have developed throughout the 20th century to the present day.
At the end of the course, the students will therefore have to demonstrate:
(a) to know and be able to interpret the acting models, performance languages and pedagogical practices present in the experience of nineteenth-century and contemporary acting,
b) to know how to contextualize, from a historical, critical and methodological point of view, the evolution of acting practices and languages,
(c) to know how to analyze and refer to the adopted critical-interpretive categories the textual and iconographic documents that testify to the developments of actorial languages and pedagogies of reference throughout the 20th century up to contemporary times.
At the end of the course, the students will therefore have to demonstrate:
(a) to know and be able to interpret the acting models, performance languages and pedagogical practices present in the experience of nineteenth-century and contemporary acting,
b) to know how to contextualize, from a historical, critical and methodological point of view, the evolution of acting practices and languages,
(c) to know how to analyze and refer to the adopted critical-interpretive categories the textual and iconographic documents that testify to the developments of actorial languages and pedagogies of reference throughout the 20th century up to contemporary times.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge of theater history, with special consideration of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Knowledge of the Italian language
Knowledge of the Italian language
Teaching Methods
The corse uses the following methodologies:
1) Frontal lectures
2) Dedicated power points, with summaries, references to textual and iconographic sources
3) Subgroup work, presentations and class discussions (video-recorded and uploaded to KIRO platform to facilitate students who cannot attend in-person classes) on case studies (acting schools and training courses, performances, etc.) supported by viewing video documents on the pedagogical forms and methods of contemporary acting
4) Sharing of teaching materials on the Kiro interactive platform (the following will be shared: PPTs, links to the video and photographic sources analyzed, essays and in-depth articles, presentations and documents developed by the subgroups on case studies, in-depth bibliography, detailed exam program, supplementary teaching materials for non-attending students)
5) Meetings with actors, actresses, theater pedagogues and pedagogues.
1) Frontal lectures
2) Dedicated power points, with summaries, references to textual and iconographic sources
3) Subgroup work, presentations and class discussions (video-recorded and uploaded to KIRO platform to facilitate students who cannot attend in-person classes) on case studies (acting schools and training courses, performances, etc.) supported by viewing video documents on the pedagogical forms and methods of contemporary acting
4) Sharing of teaching materials on the Kiro interactive platform (the following will be shared: PPTs, links to the video and photographic sources analyzed, essays and in-depth articles, presentations and documents developed by the subgroups on case studies, in-depth bibliography, detailed exam program, supplementary teaching materials for non-attending students)
5) Meetings with actors, actresses, theater pedagogues and pedagogues.
Assessment Methods
The examination will consixte of an oral interview designed to test the skills and training content acquired by the student and the student. With this in mind, the interview will focus on:
1) Content of the course lectures
2) Interpretation of the iconographic and video materials analyzed and ability to use the critical-interpretive categories adopted
3) Bibliography
The exam for non-attending students will be based on the integrated syllabus agreed with the students on a case-by-case basis.
1) Content of the course lectures
2) Interpretation of the iconographic and video materials analyzed and ability to use the critical-interpretive categories adopted
3) Bibliography
The exam for non-attending students will be based on the integrated syllabus agreed with the students on a case-by-case basis.
Texts
Luigi Allegri, L’artificio e l'emozione. L’attore nel teatro del Novecento, Laterza, Bari, 2014.
For further study:
Cristina Valenti (a cura di), Il nuovo attore. Con un focus sul teatro in carcere al tempo del coronavirus, «Quaderni di teatro carcere», 2019-2020, n. 7-8
Erving Goffman, La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1969
Some bibliographic supplements and video and photographic sources will be pointed out during the course.
For non-attending students, supplementary texts, video and photographic sources will be indicated in the KIRO folder (see directions under the "Altre informazioni" section of the Syllabus).
For further study:
Cristina Valenti (a cura di), Il nuovo attore. Con un focus sul teatro in carcere al tempo del coronavirus, «Quaderni di teatro carcere», 2019-2020, n. 7-8
Erving Goffman, La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1969
Some bibliographic supplements and video and photographic sources will be pointed out during the course.
For non-attending students, supplementary texts, video and photographic sources will be indicated in the KIRO folder (see directions under the "Altre informazioni" section of the Syllabus).
Contents
In terms of training content, the course program will be as follows:
1. Sources and methods for the study of acting languages and pedagogies
2. Actorality throughout Western history.
3. The twentieth-century revolution: pedagogical directors
4. Stanislavsky
5. Mejerchol'd
6. Copeau
7. Brecht
8. Grotowski
9. Barba
10. Actor and/or performer?
11. The non-actor or new actor in social theater: the case of prison theater
12. Actorship between the stage and offstage
1. Sources and methods for the study of acting languages and pedagogies
2. Actorality throughout Western history.
3. The twentieth-century revolution: pedagogical directors
4. Stanislavsky
5. Mejerchol'd
6. Copeau
7. Brecht
8. Grotowski
9. Barba
10. Actor and/or performer?
11. The non-actor or new actor in social theater: the case of prison theater
12. Actorship between the stage and offstage
Course Language
Italian
More information
The course includes the preparation of supplementary materials for students who cannot attend.
The materials will be uploaded to the KIRO folder in the subfolder titled "Supplementary Materials."
In addition to the in-person reception, the course will provide weekly online reception with the professor at times agreed upon with non-attending students.
To schedule meetings, outline the exam syllabus and analyze supplementary materials, non-attending students are asked to contact the professor via email at giuliaemma.innocenti@unipv.it.
The materials will be uploaded to the KIRO folder in the subfolder titled "Supplementary Materials."
In addition to the in-person reception, the course will provide weekly online reception with the professor at times agreed upon with non-attending students.
To schedule meetings, outline the exam syllabus and analyze supplementary materials, non-attending students are asked to contact the professor via email at giuliaemma.innocenti@unipv.it.
Degrees
Degrees
HUMANITIES
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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