ELEMENTS OF THEATRE AND LIVE ART PRODUCTION I

The course is part of the Master's Degree Program in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities that offers research methodologies and professional approaches to managing the arts. It provides depth knowledge of theatre, dance, and live art by introducing students to the principal theories governing their production and reception.

Students will be able to situate theatre, dance, and live art productions in the broader context of arts and cultural heritage. They will also be able to apply some fundamental concepts of arts management to these fields. During the course, they will learn how to approach a theatre performance critically and take notes from the lessons and referral texts to fix the main concepts and develop their analysis and synthesis skills. Finally, students will be able to use specialist vocabulary. The written exam will allow students to verify their knowledge by relating it to what they have learned throughout the entire curriculum.

No prerequisites or basic knowledge of theatre are required to attend the course.

The course will provide a depth knowledge of contemporary theatre, dance, and live art as forms of cultural heritage. Students will be confronted with a wide range of theatrical theories and performance practices starting from a selection of video recordings of theatre shows to analysing different genres, production processes and the mechanisms that regulate the reception of the audience. The terminology needed to understand the texts under scrutiny will be introduced and examined in class. For students unable to attend, the program is the same. Still, a meeting with the professor is strongly recommended to discuss the referral texts and to understand how to prepare for the final exam.

Christopher B. Balme, The Cambridge Introduction to Theater Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11).

Patrice Pavis, The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre, London, Routledge, 2016 (solo alcune voci) (https://books.google.it/books ? id=ryYRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=performance+studies+dictionary&source=bl&ots=fUaVN_eBlo&sig=ACfU3U3Vb6UcUT- 2g7vuXKMR0BtBJ9Sb9Q&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGlPOK1eroAhXLfMAKHcNXA0IQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=performance%20studies%20dictio nary&f=false.)

Susanne Franco and Gabriella Giannachi (a cura di), Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 2021 (open access)
(3 chapters to discuss in class)

A selection of essays and videos is suggested on moodle (the password will be provided via email by Prof. Franco

The evaluation is based on the sum of the marks obtained in the intermediate tests and the final test. The final exam is the same for attending and non-attending students and consists of a written OPEN ACCESS test based on two questions. To pass the exam, students must answer both questions and refer to the bibliography and the list of videos in moodle. Each answer must be about 5000 characters spaces included. The time available in two hours.

The course is structured around a series of lectures with screenings of images and videos. The course is linked to an e-learning platform (moodle.unive.it) where the students can find information about readings and links to the videos presented and discussed during the classes.

English

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development