Le celebrazioni del mondo contadino e le pratiche del teatro in ambiente naturale: un confronto

• Main Author: Anna Bianchi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università di Parma 2013-03-01
• Series: Ricerche di S/Confine
• Online Access: http://www.ricerchedisconfine.info/dossier-1/BIANCHI.htm

This paper develops a chapter of my dissertation, L’arte del percepire: esperienze contemporanee di Teatro nella Natura in Italia (The art of perception: contemporary Italian experiences of Theatre in theNature). I propose a particular point of view over these theatre practices: I claim that they can beapproached and analytically compared to some features of rural teatrality and rituality, such asidentified by Paolo Toschi in his classical book, Le origini del teatro italiano, a ground study for understanding the connections between theatre and folklore. Actually we can identify long-lastingdevices (procession, singing, storytelling, dance, ritual) which were typical of rural teatrality andrituality, and which occur, as well, in contemporary theatre practices in the nature, despite the radicaldifferences that separate popular tradition from contemporary theatre research