Two faces of theatre laboratory tradition: ways of working with song in the Laboratorio di Domenico Castaldo and in Raúl Iaiza's project 'Regula contra regulam'. Issue 3 (2nd September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pietkiewicz, Agnieszka
• Is Part Of: Theatre, dance and performance training. Volume 8:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 283
• Page End: 296
• Publication Date: 2017-09-02
• Subjects: Grotowski -- Barba -- Castaldo -- Iaiza -- song; Dance -- Periodicals; Performing arts -- Periodicals; Theater -- Periodicals; 790.205
• DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2017.1347583
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1944-3927

Abstract

Abstract : The main purpose of this article is to describe the ways of working with music and song in the process of training actors in the 'Regula contra regulam' project conducted by Raúl Iaiza (Regula Theatre, Milan) and in the work of Domenico Castaldo (Laboratorio di Castaldo, Turin). The investigations of both artists belong to the stream of the Italian laboratory tradition, for which the main inspirations remain the work of Jerzy Grotowski and of Eugenio Barba. The article explains what the sources of this tradition are and how we can contemporarily understand the concept of the theatre as a 'laboratory'. It subsequently describes briefly the most important findings regarding the approach to working with the voice advanced by Grotowski and Barba. We can find the continuation and expansion of their thoughts regarding work with the voice and with music in the work of both Iaiza and Castaldo, although, as this article attempts to show, the investigations of each of these artists achieve their own individual, original character.