The Scenography course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools for the project of a contemporary theatrical scenography. In addition to assuming categories and methodologies typical of architectural science, the course proposes the study of other disciplinary components necessary for theatrical staging: dramaturgical conceptions and related representative principles, theories of the actor, elements of lighting, specificity of the theatrical text, musical concepts for theater in music, etc. Since the scenography is part of a dramaturgical "system", the relationship among the various components of the performance is analyzed, deepening (both from the historical and methodological point of view) the most significant conceptions that have developed in the modern and contemporary age (theatrical avant-gardes of the 1900s, etc.). The didactic exercises consist in the analysis and design of a theatrical play in prose or in music, with particular attention to the relationship between "stage machine" and "theatrical typology". The exercises include text analysis, an iconographic research related to the elements to be brought to the scene, preliminary sketches, identification of the main materials to be adopted and related construction techniques, project of the individual stage machines (modular and mobile) and, finally, drawing of the scenes.

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