ROBERTO PENZO
Roberto is a psychologist, psychotherapist and teacher of corporal mediation. He has been a performer since 1998 and he currently supervises study and research projects for the disabled integration at the university center of Bologna (CUS). He has worked in the field of the theatre and dance as a performer and an author. Furthermore, he has organized theatrical groups, focusing on the social discontent. He is the scientific director of the Stamina Association.
Course Objectives
The course aims to establish instrumental foundations to enhance participants’ artistic and professional skills, enabling a new relational “modus operandi” between: body, disability, and performative aspect. It provides a rigorous and dignified vision of onstage action, respecting differences and redefining aesthetics, strength, presence, and poetic body concepts. We will analyze physical limits for some, psychological for others, redefining the emerging creative sense and exploring artistic limit zones.
Pedagogical Tools
Group dynamics for body-mediated integration, sensory anatomy elements, movement analysis, contact dance, physical theater, education to poetic vision.
In collaboration with Anna Albertarelli
Since 1998, works with physical and mental disabilities. Over the years, has founded movement research groups and the Vi-KAP company, which has presented its works in national and international festivals and programs. Teaches and coordinates groups and faculty at social cooperatives, volunteer associations, and dance schools featuring pedagogical programs on integration.