Antonietta Fusco
Attrice di teatro & danzatrice
The actor’s knowledge, in some of its aspects and potentialities, reflects practices of spiritual care that are not limited to actors. […]
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The actor’s techniques can be used as paths to self-discipline, to achieve an expansion of perception and perhaps of consciousness. […]
They can be diverted towards the person who practises them rather than towards their external targets. This does not mean confining them to the actor and eliminating the spectator. On the contrary, it means identifying a deeper dimension of the relationship with the spectator. […]
And it would be rather ingenuous to think that the elsewhere that the actor has carefully constructed does not also influence those who observe him with its resonances.
The actor’s knowledge, in some of its aspects and potentialities, reflects practices of spiritual care that are not limited to actors. […]
The actor’s techniques can be used as paths to self-discipline, to achieve an expansion of perception and perhaps of consciousness. […]
They can be diverted towards the person who practises them rather than towards their external targets. This does not mean confining them to the actor and eliminating the spectator. On the contrary, it means identifying a deeper dimension of the relationship with the spectator. […]
And it would be rather ingenuous to think that the elsewhere that the actor has carefully constructed does not also influence those who observe him with its resonances.
Nando Taviani in Passages and Underpasses. Terminology Exercises, in Actor’s Dramaturgy, edited by M. De Marinis, 1997
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Kalpa Vriksa
Tales of dance and travelling
Dedicated to Beppe Chierichetti
An Odissi dance-theatre performance that explores the delicate relationship between tradition and modernity, but also between the great history and a single, individual story. As a pretext for all this, there is the relationship of an Italian actress/dancer with one of the most sacred and ancient dances of India.
