Descripción del proyecto
Cómo el club de teatro experimental La MaMa ayudó a cambiar las percepciones
El La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club es un teatro que fue fundado por Ellen Stewart, a quien a menudo se atribuye la creación del teatro pequeño neoyorkino más antiguo e influyente que queda, un lugar que superó las barreras culturales y geopolíticas para los artistas subrepresentados. El proyecto MariBet, financiado con fondos europeos, realizará un estudio en profundidad de la historia de este teatro entre 1961 y 1965, el período crucial de intercambio artístico entre La MaMa y artistas europeos, en el que se incluye una selección de sus producciones históricas dirigidas por el director europeo Andrei Serban. El proyecto pretende seguir analizando el compromiso del teatro a la hora de abordar cuestiones sociopolíticas pertinentes y promover diálogos interculturales tanto en el pasado como en la actualidad.
Objetivo
MariBet is focused on the activity of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club of New York, founded by Ellen Stewart (1919-2011) in 1961 in order to give voice to artists marginalized by both the institutional theatres of Broadway and the Off-Broadway scene: a theatre conceived as an integration point in overcoming cultural and geo-political barriers and engaging artists in a common artistical research. Nowadays La MaMa produces performances always addressed to current social issues like immigration and welcoming refugees. The topic of the research is then in line with the current European political situation marked by the debate on migration flow.
Main objectives are: 1. fill the gap in the field of theatre studies with an in-depth study of the history of La MaMa on which there are no exhaustive investigations yet; 2. analyse its engagement in promoting intercultural dialogues both in the past and in the present. These objectives will be reached through an interdisciplinary research, combining the historical and semiological investigation to the sociological analysis of the issues related to the performances presented by La MaMa. This project is timely because the historical distance from the facts allows a critical objectivity in the study of the subject, the emerging interest on the comparison between Avant-Garde theatre and contemporary theatre, the principles investigated by La MaMa over the years still impact on our society today.
The project (36 months) will be hosted at the Department of Cultures and Civilizations (CUCI - UNIVR, Italy) and in the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC, Graduate Center – CUNY, US), involving the non-academic cultural institution La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club of New York. The detailed research and training program will be supervised by prof. Simona Brunetti (main supervisor) and by prof. Marvin Carlson (in US), both renowned scholars of theatre with expertise in History and Theory of Theatre.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
37129 Verona
Italia