1^st year Acting Tecniques I

The Ancient Tragedy

• Stage presence – Neutral mask
• Tragic Monologue - Text Analysis
• Myths and Rituals
• The Greek tragedy: Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles

Narrative Techniques

• Eastern and Western fairy tales and stories
• Mysteries and Sacred Representations
• Narration/mime
• Audience calling and storytelling
• Character study
• Anthropology of gesture - The archetypes
• Larval masks of Basel
• Character and counter-character development: Lecoq method
• Character development: Stanislavski method - Strasberg
• Character development in the Authors Theatre

Modern drama

• Poetry acting
• Great feelings
• The modern drama: cinema and theatre
• Psychology and Environments
• Theatre of narration
• Melodrama comedy

2^st year Acting Tecniques II

Commedia dell'Arte

• Improvisation theatre and The human comedy
• The half-masks of the Commedia dell’Arte
• Characters, plots, lazzi and theatrical scenario
• Farcical themes - Basic needs
• Binary and modular relationships

Molière

• From Commedia dell’Arte to Authors Comedy
• Cultural Archetypes and Satire
• The Illustrious Théâtre
• Satire of the bourgeois class
• Satire of the ecclesiastical class
• Satire of the medical class

Comedy - Irony

• Comedy: mechanisms and dysfunctions
• "Comedic timing"- The "gag"
• Technique of improvisation
• The theatrical clown - The comic couple
• The anomaly, the detachment, the innocence
• The allegorical - The grotesque - The deformation
• The medieval and modern buffoon

Shakespeare - Theatre and Cinema

• Tragedies and Comedies
• Monologues - Dialogues
• Text analysis - Verses and Prose
• The role of the "fool"
• Power, madness, misunderstanding, premonition
• Catharsis - Scene and byplay

3^rd year Acting Tecnique III

The Modern Theatre - The 1900’s

• A. Chekhov - H. Ibsen - A. Strindberg
• F. G. Lorca - L. Pirandello - J. Genet
• F. Dürrenmatt - B. Strauss
• The avant-garde and the Figurative Arts
• The Dadaist Theatre - Surrealist - Futurist
• J. Cocteau - V. Majakovskij
• The Theatre of Cruelty: Artaud
• The Epic Theatre: Brecht
• The Theatre of the Absurd - The "Nonsense"
• A. Jarry - S. Beckett - E. Ionesco
• G. Perec - H. Pinter - R. Queneau
• The Absurd in the cinema: Monty Python

The Modern Comedy

• Situational and repetition Comedy
• Theatre within Theatre - Style Exercises
• The English farce: O. Wilde, M. Frayn, R. Cooney, P. Shaffer
• Edwardian Comedy
• The Comedy: noir, brilliant, grotesque

Satire and Parody in current affairs

• Cultural Satire: current affairs
• Imitation - Caricature - Parody
• Picture and Frame
• Cartoon and Comics
• Sociology of Media - Dysfunctions

1^st year Film Acting

Acting: Stanislavskij - Strasberg

• Concentration, observation, attention
• Psychological and behavioral analysis
• The "if" and the given circumstances
• Character Motivation
• Analytical Memory - Sense Memory - Affective Memory
• Public character / Private character
• Dramatic action and narrative flow
• Non-consequential Acting
• Audition techniques
• Acting on camera
• Arthouse cinema repertoire
• Framing: shot and reverse-shot
• Close up and extreme close up acting

2^nd year Film Acting

Acting and New Media

• Web series and Television series
• Writing Techniques
• Shooting techniques
• Site specific

1^st/2^nd years Techniques of improvisation I and II

• Eastern and Western fairy tales and stories
• Movement and gestures
• Word and sound
• Great feelings and imagination
• Improvisation
• Deconstructing gesture
• Non-verbal language
• Silent zones

1^st Year Orthoepia of the Italian language

• Phonology - Pronunciation
• Hyphenation - Phrasing
• Diction - Orthoepy
• Tonal height, Stress and Emphasis
• Altering - Deformation

1^st Year Reading Techniques

• Cold reading and Dramatic reading
• Intentions and subtext
• Verse and prose reading
• Soliloquy - Monologue - Dialogue

1^st/2^ndYear Phono-articulatory and resonatory voice output techniques I and II

• Rhythm - involuntary breathing
• Voice projection: sound-conducting pathways
• Tonal height - Pitch - rhythm - modulation
• Natural breathing
• Autogenic training - energy
• Face mask - Voice training
• Timbre - Volume - Vocal range - Articulation
• Word from technique to expressive
• Organic voice body
• Onomatopoeic - "Grammelot"

3^rdYear Voice education

• Dramatic scores
• Onomatopoeia and Voicing
• Vocal deflection: falsetto, guttural, distortion
• Verbal automatisms - Assonances - Dragging of assonances
• Breaking and transforming feeling into speech
• The voice and theatrical styles

1^st/2^ndYear Poetic Acting I and II

• Tone - Rhythm - Volume
• Metric laws
• Rhythmic development
• Harmony
• Imagination - Visualization - Interpretation
• The sound of the evocative word

2^ndYear Acting in English

• Drama
• Intonation and expressive reading
• Acting for set and stage
• Elements of the English language

Music and Singing Music and Singing 1^st/2^nd/3^rdYear

• Solfeggio and Score reading
• Homogeneous sound and breathing
• Intonation and ranges
• Rhythmic and melodic exercises
• Jazz and vocalist improvisations
• Acting on musical score
• Musical - Recital
• Chorus singing - Songs from Repertoire
• Individual and group exercises
• Harmony and dissonance

Physical training: Expressive Movement 1^st/2^nd/3^rdYear

• Techniques of relaxation
• Elements of yoga
• Bioenergetics
• Analysis and decomposition of movement
• The grammar of gesture
• Rhythm - Balance - Pulse
• Body expression
• Feldenkrais method

Elements of modern and contemporary dance 1^st/2^nd Year

• Supports - Thrusts - Transmissions
• Start points and falls
• Scores of movement
• Floorwork
• Spatial orientation and possible combinations
• Relation between body and space
• Energy - Time - Space
• Collective kinetic proposal

Elements of choreography 3^rd Year

• Kinesphere
• Architecture of movement
• Body - Space - Quality - Shape
• Systems of composition
• Improvised macrosystems
• "Motion" of feelings
• Theatre and figurative arts

Mime and pantomime 1^st Year

• Object handling and fixed point
• Imaginary objects - Everyday actions
• The abstract gesture: Decroux
• Segmentation and construction of mimic phrases: Marceau
• Actions (pull, push, etc.): Lecoq
• Pantomime white - accelerated - cartoonish - cinematic
• The great movements of the Lecoq Method (the raft, the discus thrower, etc.)

Acrobatics 2^nd Year

• Elements of Thai Chi Chuan and Karate
• Somersaults, cartwheels, handstands, flips and acrobatic figures
• Accidents and acrobatic fights
• Levers - portair - human pyramids
• The gesture from common to acrobatic
• Elements and techniques of nouveau cirque

Makeup and Costume 1^st Year

• Theatrical and cinematic make-up
• Theatrical and cinematographic costume design
• Fabrics and materials

Open Air Theatre 3^rd Year

• Puppet Theatre
• Writing and screenplay
• Design and construction
• Architecture of performance space
• Manipulation and acting with objects
• Sets in motion
• Macro and micromanipulation

Textual analysts and dramaturgy 2^nd Year

• Text Analysis
• Narratology
• Techniques of composition
• Plot and character development
• Staging Set up
• Dramaturgical construction
• Theater genres and acting methods

History of Theatre and Entertainment 1^st/2^nd/3^rdYear

• Theatre as a rite
• The Greek tragedy
• The medieval theatre
• The Oriental Theatre
• The theatre of the Commedia dell’arte
• The Elizabethan Theatre
• The modern theatre
• The 1900’s and the Avant-garde
• The great authors of the history of theatre
• History of Directing
• History of theatre theories
• History of Mime
• History of Dance
• History of Cinema

Sector Organization 2^nd/3^rdYear

• Copyright and Image rights
• Project management of the show
• Marketing, communication, fundraising
• Production system of live entertainment, film and events

Psychology and Theatrical Pedagogy 3^rdYear

• "Training"
• The theatre lesson
• The educational path
• Pedagogical criticism
• Group dynamics

Writing and Screenplay 1^st/2^nd/3^rdYear

• Original scripts: plot development
• Structure and style
• Writing for the Puppet Theatre
• Writing of theatrical scenario
• Profile and story of a character
• Film writing
• Themes, time shifts
• The free adaptation: synthesis of a work

Direction - Stage direction 1^st/2^nd/3^rdYear

• Techniques, styles and directorial languages
• The director’s function
• Structure of a show
• Choice of scenic languages
• Linear, analog, surreal productions
• Casting and direction of actors
• Stage architecture
• Music, costume and set design