Led by Paolo Panaro
Held by Diaghilev theatrical company

MONOPOLI – CASTELLO CARLO V
From December the 3rd 2012 to March 2013 (15 lessons)

First course: entry-level– second course: advanced level
No fees – max 20 people per course

For further information and enrollments: guidopagliaro@libero.it
 

The theatrical company Diaghilev within the project “Talking Lands”(Terre parlanti), promoted by the Municipality of  Monopoli and by six partners between Apulia and Greece, co-funded by the UE Cooperation Programme Interreg Grecia-Italia 2007-2013, is aimed to implement in the town of Monopoli a narrative stage workshop, led by the actor and director Paolo Panaro.
 

This experience is addressed to people keen on theatre and literature and interested in the practice and communication techniques thanks to the storytelling in front of an audience.

Storytelling is a way of expression, so fascinating that allows to gain a deeper awareness about the imaginative dimension of a text and to improve, as well, thanks to an appropriate use of voice and body, suitable interpretative skills in order to establish a more direct and engaging relation with the spectator. The tale becomes not only a mean aimed to disseminate the works of many great authors or to recall past events but it also constitutes the most effective way in order to express and communicate to the others our thoughts, our feelings. Learning to tell means the skill to represent the history of man.

Thanks to his experience of 20 years and more, Paolo Panaro focuses his researches in this cultural field with the adaptation for the performance on the stage of many masterpieces that belong to different historical periods (from Tasso to Boccaccio, Ariosto, Gogol, Dostoevskij, Proust, etc.). He recovers many events from our traditions, such as the translation of Saint Nicholas’s bones that will be the theme of the narrative show that is going to be performed during the next months. It will constitute the last step of Talking Lands project.
 

The workshops start a course which last goal is constituted by the spread of the narrative theatre with the explanation of its reasons, its dynamics of development, its rules, and the different ways of approach aimed to implement it.
 

There are two workshops:  the entry-level and  the advanced for people who have already gained experience in the stage acting. Joint attendance and interaction between the two groups are scheduled in order to have more opportunities aimed to a comparison and a dialogue among the different sensibilities of the participants.

On the whole, 15 meetings from December 2012 to March 2013 at Charles the 5th Castle in Monopoli. At the end of the course, participants will play a narrative performance in front of the audience in order to show the training activities that were carried out.

No fees and no particular assets are required. An interest in reading is appreciated only.

A maximum of 20 participants are allowed for each course.

For enrollments, send the application with your personal data to Diaghilev Company: guidopagliaro@libero.it.

Applications will be accepted until the maximum nr. of participants expected.