Commedia dell'arte

Construed from mentor feedback, an area of strength, evidenced from my lesson on introducing Commedia dell’Arte historical context and theatrical conventions through student-led learning, is my one-on-one teacher-student interactions. My mentor’s feedback consistently commends me for my strength in one-on-one teacher-student interactions, as my exchanges are always positive and reinforcing. Conferencing with a student one-on-one allows me to interact with students on a more personal level,…

mostly taken from everyday life, (as opposed to tragedy, where they are superior to us in character or social standing) and a plot usually ending happily. In the Middle Ages this term simply meant a story ending in happiness (e.g.: Dante’s La Divina Commedia), and was seen as the complementary of tragedies, (in a narrative tragedy the hero: “from wealth [is] fallen to wretchedness,” while in a narrative comedy climbs from wretchedness to wealth/happiness), the two together making up the wheel of…

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Another group that has dealt with similar problems of funding is the Nickel Shakespeare Girls. The NSG is an all-girl troupe that incorporates acrobats, stage combat and clowning in their performance. What sets them apart is the unique style of performance where they approach the audience in a fair or festival, ask them to name any play by Shakespeare, the lines of which are acted out impromptu. In return for their performance they ask for a Nickel or any higher denomination (depending upon the…

he is familiar with Italy in many aspects, from performances to cities to paintings. Many aspects of the story are derived from the Italian street performance, Commedia Dell’arte. The husband of the woman, Signor Panteleone, is based off a character from the performances. The character Harlequin is also a character from Commedia Dell’arte. He mentions Italian cities such as Bergamo and Milano. The last distinct Italy reference was to the Mona Lisa. Puss says “Those small, cool, quiet Mona Lisa…

12 of the most long-lasting, powerful and full-length comedies of all time, some that rhyme, some in story, not to mention six more shorter slapstick, dramatic comedies. He used his knowledge for the modern French comedy and combined it with commedia dell’arte. Moliere was born on Jan 15, 1622, to a prosperous family; his father was a Parisian furniture merchant and also the king’s personal upholsterer. Being lucky enough to be born into a household that makes excellent income was not so likely…

Beginning their new comedic venture nestled in Hyde Park, Shepherd and Sills first started to experiment with improvisational theatre. Particularly Shepherd drew inspiration from the “commedia dell’arte, a genre that flourished in the sixteenth century Italy…[where] companies would travel from town to town performing plays for which no formal script existed—just a list of plot points, called a scenario.” These scenarios diverged from the traditional…

exaggerated physical activity that takes human common sense to a further level of their mind. The phrase “slapstick" belongs to the Italian language word batacchio. In England it is known as a club-like object combined of two wooden slats used in commedia dell'arte. If the battacchio is struck it makes smacking noise loudly and with such little force it transfers from the object through to the person acting like they have been struck. The actors will hit one another repeatedly but will not cause…

by the lower clergy, the Festival of Fools, that reveled in opposition to authority. In 16th century Italy, comedy became improvised and included certain parameters, but thrived with its pioneering performances. This type of theatre known as Commedia dell'Arte, traveled to France, Germany, Spain, England, leaving behind a lasting impression…

The artist I have selected is Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. The greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. “Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century.” The personal life Pablo Picasso was in his father’s footsteps…