The theatrical poetry laboratori ‘Body of Love’, is another course offered by the Women’s Fiction Festival together with the CINEFABRICA Association of Matera. This course is a welcome addition to the other courses, in order to round out the forms of expression of gripping emotions. Body of Love is a voyage into forms of theatrical expression using the body and poetry as the media to explore space and emotion and as a way to learn to work with others to learn to move your body in harmony with other bodies. Movement becomes words and words become movement. Poetry is expressed by gestures, actions and movements, imagination brought to life.
Wednesday,September 26, 2007
Casa del Pellegrino Le Monacelle – Sala Alta
3pm – 6 pm
Physical training. The origins of movement, the sounds and the movements of beginnings. Learning to explore your environment in an expansive sequence of movements from small to large.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Casa del Pellegrino Le Monacelle – Sala Alta
3pm – 6 pm
Physical training – learning to control your movements in space and how to synchronize your movements with another body. Learning to understand the gaze and the movements of others. Guiding and letting yourself be guided, accepting, rejecting, distance and closeness, learning to breathe in harmony. Using words for the first time.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Casa del Pellegrino Le Monacelle – Sala Alta
3pm – 6 pm
Physical training. Class encounter, moving as one. Physical and vocal group improvisation.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Casa del Pellegrino Le Monacelle – Sala Alta
3pm – 6 pm
Physical training – vocal expression of poetry. Movements evoking poetical words, gesticulation, changes of movement, connections between the body and the spoken word, expressing meaning by movement, expressing meaning by variations in vocal expression.
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Casa del Pellegrino Le Monacelle – Sala Alta
3pm – 6 pm
Physical training – physical and vocal construction of a poetical text. Observation of individual work, recognizing poetry in details, gestures intentions or an entire action. Writing evoked images. Maximum number of participants in the workshop: 20
The workshop costs €50 if you register by the 30th of June, 2007.
After the 30th of June, the registration fee is €70.
The workshop is run by Nadia Casamassima* and Andrea Santantonio*
*Nadia Casamassima: has a degree in education science and worked with the Teatro dei Sassi of Matera from 1994 to 2006. She worked as an actress and ran theatre workshops for adults and children and has participated in some of the most important scriptwriting and theatre workshops in Italy (run by Ronconi, Del Bono, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, the Workscenter of Thomas Richards).
*Andrea Santantonio: has a degree in Ethnoanthropology and worked with the Teatro dei Sassi in Matera from 1999 to 2006. He worked as an actor and ran theatre workshops for adults and children and has participated in some of the most important scriptwriting and theatre workshops in Italy (run by Ronconi, Del Bono, the Workcenter by Thomas Richards).
Each year, the Women's Fiction Festival awards its literary prize, the Baccante award, to someone who has made major contributions to women's fiction. The literary prize is a jewel hand-crafted by a talented local artist. The ‘Baccante’ prize has gone toAlicia Gimenez-Bartelettin 2006, one of Europe’s finest mystery writers, the winner of the 1997 Feminino Lumen prize as best Spanish writer. The ‘Baccante’ prize was awarded toMaria Venturiin 2004 and toInge Feltrinelli,in 2005.
