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Chiara D’Anna is an Italian actor, director, lecturer and Commedia dell’Arte specialist with over 20 years of experience. She trained in Italy, Poland and the UK. Her work on the contemporaneity of Commedia dell’Arte culminated in her PhD “A Journey back Home: The Legacy of Commedia dell’Arte in Post-dramatic Theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the Actor in Devised Performance” (The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design- London Metropolitan University 2014-18). She regularly teaches and runs workshops/masterclasses on Commedia dell’Arte and Physical Theatre at RADA, East15 Acting School, Rose Bruford College and the National Centre of Circus Arts. As Associate Artist of the research group ‘The Quick & the Dead’ she worked for over eight years in developing a new methodology for Actor Training known as the ‘Core Training’. The outcome of this research was published by Routledge in a DVD-pamphlet: ‘Core Training For the Relational Actor’ (2013) and documented by Peter Hulton for the Exeter Arts Archives. Chiara is co-founder of Natural You Dance, a movement meditation practice that draws on Yoga, dance, physical theatre and meditation.

CHIARA D’ANNA

Commedia dell’Arte

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Greg Pierotti is an assistant professor of dramaturgy and collaborative playmaking at the University of Arizona. He has taught theatrical devising for twenty years and is also a certified assistant teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework™. He is co-writer of the plays The Laramie Project, Laramie:10 Years later, and The People’s Temple and the HBO teleplay The Laramie Project. For these works received the Bay Area Theater Critics Award, a Will Glickman Award, and the Humanitas Prize, and received NY Drama Desk, Alpert and Emmy award nominations.

As an actor he has performed at Lincoln Center Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, La Jolla Playhouse, The Union Square Theater, to name a few. His current academic research explores the cross-pollination of theatrical devising practices and affect theory. The goal of his current research activity is to offer ethnographic writers new research designs and approaches for presenting their empirical material and to attune theater makers to more complex understandings of political and cultural contexts, and supports them in approaching different events and social issues through more nuanced discourse formations.

GREG PIEROTTI

The Devising Grid

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André Casaca is one of the most popular professionals of physical theatre and clown in Italy. He’s Brazilian and a resident of Italy since 1995. The Lume Teatro (Lume Theatre – Campinas, Brazil) and Yves Lebreton were fundamental to his preparation and formation. Actor, theatrical researcher, clown, director, and founder of the method called “Body Comic Identity”.

Engaged in theatre for more than 25 years, his artistic and pedagogic method is recognized in Italy and abroad in university theatrical studies. He is the artistic and pedagogic director at the Teatro C’art Comic Education Onlus (Castelfiorentino, Italy) and he collaborates with many theatre schools. www.teatrocart.com

ANDRÉ CASACA

Clown – Comic Body and Identity

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Originally from Manila, Philippines, Bob is an actor-creator, director and teaching artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. He teaches a variety of courses in Physical Theatre and Devising & Collaborative Creation at the Accademia dell’Arte. In the US, recent projects include Wonderland, a new devised play inspired by Lewis Carrol’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and directing Gold, a world premier musical adapted from the King Midas story, both for Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Bob also teaches Mask, Pantomime and Clown for the School of Acting at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Bob serves as the Accademia dell’Arte’s Director of Communications and Recruiting. This position takes him to universities and colleges around the US to introduce theatre and dance students (and faculty) to the Accademia’s programs through workshops and presentations.

Previously based in New York, Bob was the Associate Artistic Director of Off-Broadway theatre company, Ripple Effect Artists, and a professional hospital clown for Lev Leytzan, for which he also served as Director of Training for their Youth Clown Program.
Bob is an alum of the MFA in Physical Theatre at the Accademia dell’Arte and holds undergraduate degrees in Theatre and Biology from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA.

Bob loves exploring new places, an occasional donut, discovering a great cup of affordable coffee and he’s undefeated in thumb wrestling. He and his partner Natalia have two Netherland Dwarf Rabbits, T-Rex and Luna, that remind him daily to be curious … and to eat lots of hay.

BOB SHRYOCK

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Samuel Angus McGehee 1987, originally from Boston, grew up in Tuscany where from a young age was engaged in music, street circus and philosophy. Sam studied clarinet performance with Igor Begelman and philosophy with Marina Vitkin at Sarah Lawrence College NYC. He also studied sitar with Rajesh Shah and philosophy with Shashank Srivastava at Benaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. Sam holds an MFA in physical theatre from the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Sam’s interdisciplinary approach has brought him to collaborate with a variety of people including painters, dancers, poets, musicians, actors, and researchers. So far Samuel has performed in Italy, Germany, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Switzerland and India; he has also taught in many of these places. Sam was original member of experimental rock band Sycamore Age (IT), and was member of physical theatre company Divadlo Continuo (CZ). He is founder of Broken Jump Theatre and experimental duo Zvukulàska; he also lectures on Indian philosophy at Florence University of the Arts. Sam continues to pursue a variety of collaborations with other artists; he is interested in poetry, composed theatre, experimental music and movement. Samuel has also always remained for better or worse a devout student of metaphysics.

SAMUEL McGEHEE

Hidden Dimensions

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ELENA DE RENZIO

Clown

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Wagner Moreira was born in Brazil and has been living in Germany since 2003. As a teacher, freelance performer and choreographer, he has worked in various theatres, universities and international projects. In 2011, he was awarded a scholarship for the “International Choreographers Residency” at American Dance Festival at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina-USA. In 2012 he received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award in professional choreography for his outstanding social and intercultural commitment. In 2012 he received a Master of Arts in Choreography. For the last six years, Wagner has extended his C.O.R.E project to several mixed-able-bodied projects in Europe.

WAGNER MOREIRA

C.O.R.E. Creating Opportunities of Research

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Helena Fernandino holds a masters degree in cognitive linguistics. She started her dance training in her home country of Brazil and continued her education in Belo Horizonte and throughout Europe, including Germany, Belgium and Austria. She has been based in Germany since 2003 working as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. As a dancer and choreographer her work includes video dance, site-specific performance and interventions in public spaces. In 2013 she was awarded the graduate scholarship from the State of Saxony for the Artistic Masterclass at Palucca University for Dance Dresden, researching the interface between dance and cognitive linguistics, with a focus on contemporary dance for children and adolescents. In 2014 she began her training as a Somatic Movement Educator – Body Mind Centering – © BMC.

HELENA FERNANDINO

C.O.R.E. Creating Opportunities of Research

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ALESSIO TREVISANI

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Marina Abib Candusso is a dancer and foundress of the Soma Company, São Paulo, Brazil.

In 2017 premiered her first solo piece “The Goat” directed by André Casca in a co-production Brazil-Italy (Casa do Movimento, Teatro C’art and Teatro del Respiro). With this piece she has already performed in Brazil, Italy, Slovenia, England and Portugal.

Since 2016, in addition to working with her own company, she lives between Brazil and Europe and works on different projects: is a collaborator of the C´art Theater (Italy); danced in the production “Raizes” of Untamed Company (Belgium); and debuted in Slovenia her new production “400 Rabbits”, a partnership with the dancer Beno Novak (Slovenia). In Brazil she premiered “Devil Woman and Dr. Strangelove”, a duet with the dancer Diogo Granato.

MARINA ABIB

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Beno Novak is a professional contemporary dancer and co-founder of KUD Qulenium Ljubljana. In 2016 he graduated from the Salzburg Dance Academy of Dance (SEAD) in contemporary dance and performance. Due to his success, he was subsequently invited to upgrade his knowledge at the Tisch Dance (New York University) and The Place (London) dance academy.

In 2017 and 2018 he danced at Gary Clark in the performance “Coal”, which received numerous awards.

Since then he has been working with international companies like Jason Mabana, James Wilton, Ricardo Ambrozio,…

For several years he is teaching his own technic “Zero Space” in different institutions and festivals, besides, he is a regular dance professor at the Dance Academy Ljubljana and contemporary dance program Performact Portugal.

In addition to dance, he actively participates in the organization and implementation of the Kalejdoskop festival Kranj and Kalejdoskop festival Ljubljana and the summer-dance festival Summer Intensive Portugal.

Alongside dancing within international dance companies, he has been acting as a creator for many years, mostly within his company Qulenium.

BENO NOVAK

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Alessandra Faienza is a professional italian mask maker.
She studied at the Art School and then she got a degree in Archeology in Padua, Italy.
Since she was a child she has been loving theater and dance, that she practiced for fifteen years.
Through her first dance teacher she met the mask maker Donato Sartori, who suddenly became her master. After the Academic Studies she attended Sartori’s leather mask construction school and embarked on an apprenticeship at a mask lab in Milan. After two years, she was ready to start her professional activity as a mask maker. She is in constant search for shapes, materials and colors, working with the classic leather, the crazy latex, the fabric -with which she makes masks and wigs- and her beloved Worbla, a thermoplastic material on which she is experimenting new shapes and crafts. Sometimes she likes to explore the construction of simple mechanical puppets and wigs.

ALESSANDRA FAIENZA

Mask Making

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Michele Segreto is an Italian author and director, founder of servomutoTeatro a theatre company based in Milan. He graduated in Theatre History and Dramaturgy at Cattolica University, and studied in ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondation, under the direction of Claudio Longhi and also studied with Giovanni Guerrieri (I Sacchi di Sabbia), Silvio Castiglioni, Giorgia Penzo, Mariano Dammacco, Maurizio Camilli e Michela Lucenti (Ballettocivile), Marina Rossi, Giovanni Calcagno, Elena Bucci e Marco Sgrosso (Le Belle Bandiere), Mark Ravenhill, Mike Bernardin, Wiebke Nonne, Grażyna Dyląg (Schaubühne)

In 2015 with the play Polvere won the Petroni Prize, and the following year with the same play is also awarded the Tagad’Off Prize, Giovani Realtà del Teatro Prize and then the play is chosen to open the XX edition of Inequilibrio Festival in Castiglioncello. In 2016 he won the Scintille Prize with the play PhoebusKartell and Teatri del Sacro with the playwriting of Non un’Opera Buona. In 2018 PhoebusKartell is in the final selection of In-Box – Rete di Sostegno del Teatro Emergente Italiano and is awarded NEXT Prize by Regione Lombardia.

Still in 2018, with Amore oppure Amore Michele Segreto won the Audience Prize, Student Prize and Critic Prize at Fantasio – International Festival of Theatre Direction. In 2020 he is in artistic residency in Corte Ospitale and Kilowatt. Michele Segreto also teaches Theatre History, Drammaturgy and Theatre Antropology.

MICHELE SEGRETO

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