Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: guido.dipalma@uniroma1.it
phone: 3286713235
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Inglese
He holds a MA from the Bologna University DAMS (Department of Arts, Music and Drama) - where he defended a thesis in History of Theatre (Tutors: Fabrizio Cruciani and Claudio Meldolesi) - and a PhD in Etnoanthropology (“Mith, Rite and Performance”, tutor: Luigi L. Lombardi Satriani). He worked as a director for RAI and, from 1983 to 1987, was the head of the audiovisual department at Centro Teatro Ateneo.
He worked for the University Theatre Laboratory of the University of Palermo and collaborated as a musical critic with the newspaper “L’Ora” of Palermo, also writing in the cultural page. He taught History of Theatre in many Italian academies of Fine Arts (also in Brera and Urbino). For a long time, he collaborated to the teaching of Methodology of Theatre Critics at the Sapienza University of Rome. He also taught at the University of Tor Vergata and within the degree course of Anthropology Theories and Practices of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Sapienza University of Rome.

For ten years he taught History of Directing at the Silvio D’Amico National Academic of Dramatic Art, where, from 2006 to 2012, he was also part the Academic Council, actively participating to the Academy renewal, writing the new statute and setting up the new organization for the schools of directing, of acting and of puppetry theatre. At the Academy, he was also the director of the Theatre Pedagogy diploma. He is part of the Directive Council of the Centro Teatro Ateneo of the Sapienza University of Rome.
He collaborates with different academic journals and participated to various international symposia. Among his interests there is the study of the relationships between the intangible culture, the theatre and the systems for the transmission of performance knowledge, that he cultivated also within the international research group “Spectacle vivante e sciences humaines” of the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme (Paris). He is currently studying the acting practices in folk theatre, puppetry theatre and Theatre of Directing. He also studies the usage of audiovisual technologies and new media in museums, theatre research and for didactic purposes.

Publications include:
Dario Fo und die italienische Theatertradition, in “Akteure und ihre Praktiken im Diskurs. Aufsätze”, Universitätsverlag2012;
Pensare lo spettacolo, Michele Galdieri tra Eduardo e Totò, Bulzoni, 2012;
I cartelloni dell'opera dei pupi di area palermitana, Lulu, 2011;
Corps Du Théâtre / Il Corpo Del Teatro. organicité, contemporanéité, interculturalité / organicità, contemporaneità, interculturalità, in collaboration with U. Birbauner e M. Hüttler, Verlag Lehner Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2010;
Antonio Clemente, in società de Curtis e in arte Totò, Biblioteca Teatrale, 2010;
Peter Brook e la scena: dallo spazio della composizione allo spazio di relazione(1945-1962), Culture teatrali, 2006;
Un testimone dell‘ apocalisse, tradizione e invenzione nella fabulazione di Ascanio Celestini, in “L‘invenzione della memoria, il teatro di Ascanio Celestini”, Il Principe Costante, 2005;
Some of the last works he produced are: two dvds on Mimmo Cuticchio that also present a rich critical analysis (La spada di Celano andGran duello di Orlando e Rinaldo per amore della bella Angelica, 2011) and the brief documentaryBruno Leone, teatro di strada, due frammenti (2011).