Course 2013-2014 a.y.

Course Objectives

The performing arts workshop is aimed at introducing students to the performing arts sector, with insights into different areas of the field. In particular, genres as theatre, festivals, dance, classical music, ballet and opera will be taken into account, with an interdisciplinary and international scope. Both the nonprofit area of the performing arts and the commercial side of live entertainment will be considered. Students are given the opportunity to visit some of the most important Italian arts organizations and to meet practitioners and experts in the field.

Course Content Summary

In particular, the workshop has been outlined as a triple path through the field, structured as follows:

Curating the Performing Arts (Prof. Silvia Bottiroli)

Overview of the aesthetics and forms of the contemporary performing arts in an interdisciplinary perspective, and in depths analysis of the modalities in which artistic contents are made and displayed, throughthe curatorial: a complex series of skills and tasks that refer to the curators and their work in relation to different contexts, audiences, venues.

Managing the Performing Arts: An Italian Field Trip (Prof. Claudia Tacchino, Prof. Ilaria Morganti)

• Insights into the field: In depths analysis of the production and distribution process of the performing arts, with a special focus on opera, which on the one hand is highly representative of Italian culture and, on the other hand, presents the highest level of complexity within the field.
• Field Experience: Backstage tours to Piccolo Teatro and La Scala Theatre, field trip to Venice;
• Group Projects
  

Managing Live Entertainment & Musical Theatre (Prof. Andrea Rurale)

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

For non attending students
Written exam on reading materials and one book.

For attending students
Curating the Performing Arts: Analysis of a programme 20%
Managing Live Entertainment & Musical Theatre: Field Project 20%
Managing the Performing Arts: an Italian field trip: Written exam30%
Managing the Performing Arts / Group Projects: Field project 30%
Validity: all exam sessions of a.y. 2013/14

Partial exams are not scheduled

Textbooks

For non attending students
T. STEIN, R. J. BATHURST, Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices, Allworth Press, 2008

For attending students
Course material provided by professors

Prerequisites

This workshop is primarily addressed to ACME students who wants to make their career in the performing arts and entertainment fields. International students willing to attend the course are welcomed but they should evidence strong interest and commitment (as professional or non professional artists or as spectators) in the performing art field.