MASKS ON STAGE
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,
Aim of the project is proposing activities concerning the promotion, spreading and education of Arte della Commedia all'Italiana, that is considered as Intangible European Heritage An international school will be established: 10 students (2 from Italy, 2 from France, 2 from Germany, 2 from Spain, 2 from Czech Republic) will attend 2 years courses. Official languages will be Italian, French, English, German and Spanish.School will be itinerant and will start in October and end in May. Co-organizers will choose their own trainees, will provide 3 teachers and will host the school for 2 months, and it will host a teacher from the other countries (for at least one week). Subjects will be differentiated thus allowing every co-organizer to work on both traditions and features of its own "popular" theatre, and at the same time this will help intercultural exchange between all partners.Every year, from May to June, many different international productions will be staged, directed by teachers who will work together: 3 shows the first year, 5 in the second year. Productions, then will go on tour. The first tournée will start in 2011 and will go across western Europe: Austria (Wien), Belgium (Charleroi), France (Aurillac, Avignon, Montpellier), Germany (Cologne, Dortmund, Essen), Italy (Abbiategrasso, Cotignola, Mantova), Holland (Rotterdam), Portugal (Lisbon) and Spain (Barcelona, Guadalajara, Madrid). In 2012 shows tour Eastern Europe: Albania (Tirana), Bulgaria (Sofia), Croatia (Zagreb), Macedonia (Skopie), Poland (Cracow), Czech Republic (Prague, Kuks), Romania (Bucarest), Slovakia (Bratislava), Slovenia (Ljubljana) and Hungary (Budapest, Szekszard). In October 2010 will be held a meeting in Cotignola in order to agree all technical and organizational details. Furthermore two additional meeting will be scheduled in France in October 2011 and another in Germany in September 2012, to supervise the workflow.