teaching plan

teaching plan

from 03th to 09th June 2024 full time
Bologna, Italy

CorpoPoetico® is a method and an intensive project created by a dancer and choreographer Anna Albertarelli.
CorpoPoetico is a movement-dance-theater practice conceived and developed by Anna Albertarelli, choreographer, dancer and teacher, and to Prof. Roberto Penzo, a psychomotor educator, psychologist, sexologist, teacher and performer.

the Intensive Training program for artistic and social inclusion within dance and physical theatre setting engages in about 1 week of June 2024, with an open admission through by send curriculum and motivation letter.

The course has been envisaged with aim to provide the trainees with specific theoretical and practical skills, in order to improve their training-related, educational and artistic line of work and permit them to suitably embed the methodolgy of social integration.

Moreover, the program is a host two workshops , featuring internationally renowned choreographers and artists with focus on widening the attendees’ knowledge and enriching the workshop participants’ experiences, visions and professional competences.

Who to Apply?
The course welcomes able and less able persons and adresses dancers, performers, graduates and students of liberal arts degree courses and teaching programs, health workers, dance and theatre teachers.

From 03th to 09th June 2024 the intensive program is divided in :
> Formative Modules with Anna Albertarelli and Roberto Penzo
> International Workshops with a guest artist Juri Roverato

The Formative Modules with Anna Albertarelli and Roberto Penzo develops From 03th to 07th June and from 08th to 09th June 2023, on daily basis from 10am until 4pm, including a 1 houre lunch break.

At the end of the training to the partecipante will be issued the Attendance Certificate for the completion of the program

The program is organized by Leggere Strutture Art Factory, a center dedicated to the arts and culture of the city of Bologna.

The conscious body

Theorical and practical topics

Corporal languages, brief hystorical and cultural notions

Communication languages: modalities, strategies and the outlook in psychopedagogical and relational fields.

Group dynamics with specific theoretical/practical uses

Paths of distress – a denied body – a constrution of viable and essential pathways for communication and integration

Emotional memory and sensorial body - a constrution of viable and essential pathways for non-verbal communication.

Pratical tools

Elements of Experiential Anatomy, organic movement, proprioception, analysis of spontaneous movement

for specific users

Methodology for observing the bodily dynamics in movement and psichomotor behaviour, a construction of bodily identity, the observer’s point of view for a correct and responsable presence.

Emotional and relational body

The routes of distress – denied body

a creation of possible and essential paths for communication and integration. The emotional memory a a disabled body. Building viable paths for a non-verbal communication.

Bodily sensations and emotions, encounters with normality and impairment, construction and reconstruction of the body identity.

Relational techniques and group communication for integrated groups.

dancing body

Theorical and practical topics

Group dynamics through bodily mediation

The movement as an expression of the body

Physical and psycho-corporal education, corporal appeasement through normality. Different expressive opportunities, motor impulses and thrusts towards outside, dilated space, absent space.

Practical tools

Contact improvisation, spatial dynamics, rhythm, improvisation techniques, relation between body identity and scenic space, conscious and unconscious presence.
The disabled body: impulses for peripheral movement and promotion of artistic-expressive values. To transform corporal discord in a creative choreographic resource.

Poetic and Actor body

Actor body

Theorical and practical topics

Stage communication languages, stratergies and outlooks in relational and psycopedagogical context.

practical topics

Physical theatre, the presence, the voice, the character, comedy, the grotesque, the absurd, drama, body, chorus.

Poetic body

Theorical and practical topics

Intensive group work contemplated as a safe space, group experiences

Tutor’s role: active watch, safe space, emotional experiences

Experiential corporal techniques aiming at integration, modalities and context differences

The expressive body: considerations on staging a disabled body

How to envision a creative and dramaturgic immagination

Inter-artistical workshop for a mindful observer

Elements of artistic poetry focused on a different corporality.

How to envision a creative imagination with diverse abilities.

Juri Roverato

"Each person is unique and special, with a lot to say, able to strike a chord in others through a simple gesture.

How to approach the performance in a different manner. "

biography

Born in Padua (Italy) in 1977, a dancer and Danceability teacher, Juri Roverato has been afflicted by spastic tetraparesis (dystonia) since birth.

He obtained his Master’s Degree in Philosophy in 2002, practiced martial arts (Qwan qwi do) and studied Danceability with different professional teachers. Juri researched contact improvisation techniques, as well as several dance workshops aligned with his path – Sensitive Dance, creative paths and performances within Danceability, Experiential Anatomy and impro seminars with an array of teachers.

In 2001 Juri took part in the first European seminar on Danceability teacher training with Alito Alessi and Laura Banfi, later qualifying as a teacher. Since then Juri has been holding workshops and classes in Italy and abroad, for both children and adults.
In 2003 he participated in a theatrical seminar on artistic approach between abled and disabled persons with Patrice Guillaumet.
Among numerous artistic collaborations and courses, Juri took part at the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games in Turin in 2006.

Since then he has been extensively choreographing and dancing in various stage and theatre productions, giving way to mixed dance companies over the years, collaborating with and teaching in rehabilitation and medical centres, schools, as well as holding Danceability seminars at the University of Padua.

Since 2018 Juri took part in the IMPART European project with the aim to put together four artistic organisations from Germany, Greece, Italy and Armenia in order to create inclusive performance events by able and less able artists working together on creating a highly functional and cross-disciplinary language. In the following years he participated in the SPARK project, with focus on dramaturgy and interaction between dancers, as well as in Europe Beyond Access Laboratory on dramaturgy of movement transitions.

In 2021 Juri held classes for the advanced graduate level course “Towards an Integrated dialogue between Dance and Disability” in Reggio Emilia.
Later that year Juri starred in Abel Ferrara’s film with Shia LeBeouf and Willem Defoe.

how to apply?

The course has been envisaged with aim to provide the trainees with specific theoretical and practical skills, in order to improve their training-related, educational and artistic line of work and permit them to suitably embed the methodolgy of social integration.

The course welcomes able and less able persons and adresses dancers, performers, graduates and students of liberal arts degree courses and teaching programs, health workers, dance and theatre teachers.

The program is targeted at those who wish to acquire and deepen specific skills related to disability in dance and theatre and those related to the body as an instrument for communication, education, artistic expression and integration.