Teatro delle Albe offered exclusive workshop at La Scuola D’Italia
Teatro delle Albe is an avant-garde Italian theater company based in Ravenna, Italy. Founded in 1983, the company specializes in innovative and thought provoking plays. Their unique outlook on the art of performance has brought them global acclaim, and the company has won several prizes at international festivals as well as fourteen Ubu Prizes (the Italian version of an Oscar).
The company has gained international recognition for the creation of their “non-school” program, an innovative education experience designed to enlighten children and teenagers through personal expression in the arts. The program focuses on the mutualist relationship between an actor and his or her audience. Acting is taught to be looked at as a unique game in which everyone participates and everyone benefits.
While on tour in New York for the past few weeks, Teatro delle Albe held non-school workshops for middle and high school students, including pupils at La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi of New York. La Scuola d’Italia is a rare, culturally enriching institution offering an Italian/English bilingual education. The school fosters a sense of international understanding through rigorous classical enlightenment, scientific studies and various collaborations with global institutions.
This past Tuesday, 8th grade and Liceo students from La Scuola d’Italia concluded their non-school workshop experience with the presentation of Heresy of Happiness, a production adapted from the work of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Directed by Marco Martinelli of Teatro delle Albe, Heresy of Happiness gave students a chance to show off their new “non-school” acting techniques to the crowd.
Middle schoolers from the Corpus Christie Catholic School, High school students from United Nations International School and other schools in collaboration with Italian American Committee on Education performed in Heresy of Happiness as well.
-Rose Minutaglio
