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.

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 (only some entries, see moodle)
(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 (edited by), Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 2021 (open access)
(3 chapters to discuss in class)

Non attending students will add to the list also this book:
Erika Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics, Taylor and Francis, 2008.

A selection of essays and videos is available in the dedicate section of Moodle

The examination for both attending and non attending students, consists of an oral test, i.e. an interview lasting approximately 15 minutes, starting with the presentation of a topic of the student's choice (a case of a performance or a performing arts festival), which the student must frame historically and theoretically, emphasising in particular the topics addressed in class and using the specific vocabulary acquired during the course.
Non attending students will add to the list of essays and videos in Moodle also

Erika Fischer-Lichte, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics, Taylor and Francis, 2008.

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.

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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