The nontantoprecisi were formed in 2006, and are still active in Rome and its surrounding area. They are involved in a crucial process of research and experimentation in the mechanism of the theatre: "space-time-body." Their production comprises theatrical performances, workshops, training courses on the presence of art and the theatre in the educational and social environment, seminars, experimental work on the environment and the landscape and performances inside cultural spaces, art galleries and museums.
The Present Scene is a workshop structured through creative physical exercises and actions that emerge as a response to working indications suggested by the director. What is the space of the scene? What time does the development of the action take? What is the body that acts, offering itself to view? These are only three of the countless coordinates delineating the theatrical event but that make it possible to forge a synthesis capable of providing an account of what goes on on stage. The workshop's aims include developing collective action and attention; building and consolidating the working body-group; building a bodily critique of the elements comprising artistic expression such as space, time, and the body; exploring space as a venue for dynamic relations; experimenting with the collective narration of reality; exploring the potential of vision; and questioning the physical action of looking. The activities consist of the director and the performers working together, proposing to the group of participants: physical exercise on the presence of their own body and those of others in space; modulating the positions, balances and figures that the body offers; activities involving physical participation and emotional presence in collective work; individual and collective physical exercises and actions on the use of the space, time and body elements; exercises in creative response to working indications; searching for the individual and collective gesture in bodily relations; experimenting with the voice as verbal gesture and with the word in its physical and bodily elements; collective analysis and discussion of the work performed; summing up the work done in the workshop; and a final performance.
Duration of the workshop: from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 14 April 2019.
Time: 3.30 pm to 8.00 pm