MASCA DE CARACTER ÎN PEDAGOGIA TEATRALĂ
The character Mask in the Context of Theatrical Pedagogy

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on a preliminary pedagogical research of the third stage within the study of the mask in Commedia dell’Arte: the character mask. This stage is preceded by the study of the neutral and larval mask. The objective of the neutral mask is the student’s bodily detoxification, characterized by focus, balance, concentration. The study of the larval mask is as a bridge between the neutral and the character mask. The character mask defines the character in a clear and strong manner, through its architectural structure. The student has to learn how to read a character mask, how to discover its whole architectural structure, in order to be able to further discover its details, shadows. Corporality must be perfectly adapted to the architectural construction of the mask.

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