- wants to introduce himself…
I graduated in theater directing from the Paolo Grassi School in Milan. I participated as a director in a Masterclass at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, collaborated with several companies on the national territory as a director (prose, opera and children’s theater) and began teaching acting and vocal technique. I have continued over the years a Research Path on the origin of Sound from Silence and effortless phonation.
I have worked in schools, from kindergartens to universities, with cultural projects with theater as the educational and cultural focus. I have worked in companies, on communication as an authentic and effective resource. From 2010 to the present, I have led educational paths and workshops on vocal technique, acting and directing.
I have designed and lead workshops with the PRESENCE DIARY method. In 2008 created, together with the team of Ospedale Aperto and Dr. Sergio Livigni (Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin) the course “Training Open Intensive Care” currently present on the national territory as a reference point for the training of doctors and nurses in empathic and effective communication.
Also in 2020 founded OvunqueTeatro – Beings in the Making.
- anywhere theater, how did it come into being and what values does this project carry?
Ovunque teatro is both a physical space and a project that is enacted as a workshop.
I trained in theater and worked as a director, and I have always liked one particular aspect of this work: theatrical exercises bring awareness and inner knowledge.
Theatricality is combined with mindfulness practices and exercises such as, for example, mindful walking or conscious use of the voice.
I have specialized not only in theater but also in inner growth, and I have collaborated with other nontheatrical professionals from other fields, such as medicine, because they, too, have sensed the potential of mixing the two that I have proposed.
We have thus together brought theater into spaces where it had not come before.
This fusion of various fields is not theater therapy. Theater is used with people who are healthy and fascinated by the possible awareness that the art of theater can offer. But I work with health and wellness because while I am not a doctor I use various methods and exercises from other disciplines overlapping with each other that are valuable tools for self-inquiry.
Another reason I chose this path is the thought that everything is theater. So I have been looking for a way to put theater at the service of and in contact with other seemingly distant realities.
- you also train doctors and nurses in empathic and effective communication, do you also use theater as a method?
A project called: TRAINING OPEN INTENSIVE THERAPY had been born.
In this project, carried out with other very good trainers, my role was to train doctors and nurses to be aware of their bodies and how to communicate with their bodies, with words, with expressions and with their voices. At the end of the three days of training we would arrive at an artistic elaboration.
I would like to emphasize, however, that in these situations you never try to change something because you have to. The purpose is to get used to one’s presence. In this way one does not even attribute the faults of the conversation to the other person. - What is mindful presence?
To get away from the performance aspect of theater, it is important to name it even though it is something vast and has to do with the Sacred. It makes sense to talk about it in this context to name that which invites us not to be turned toward the outside or toward what I want to reach. One can bring the focus back inward and toward one’s own dynamics.
So presence in art has the function of putting us in touch with something higher. - What do you think the role of the teacher should be?
I have always been impressed with a phrase that was said to me by a person I hold in high esteem:” you teach what you are.” The opportunity to teach is a great responsibility because one is constantly trying to accompany “one’s students” where the teacher has already been.