great masters

I had the privilege to see at work or study with fantastic artists and teachers, such as Bob Wilson, Lin Hixon, François Tanguy, Mario Biagini and Thomas Richards, Anna Halprin, Ann Carlson, Jérôme Bel, Alonzo King, Virgilio Sieni, Danio Manfredini, Claudia Contin Arlecchino and Ferruccio Merisi, Jacob Schokking, and Toni Cots.

Ann Carlson

I met Ann at Stanford in 2010. She became my mentor in my first directing projects.

Photograph (c) 2012 Dan Quinn

I performed in Carlson's Picture Jasper Ridge, a performance hike done in 2012 in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. The work recreated as tableaux vivants archival photographs taken in the land of the preserve. I wrote an article on this work, which received the TDR best student essay award.

Photograph (c) 2013 Stanford TAPS

I performed in Carlson's Symphonic Body-Stanford, 2013, a symphony made of silence, unfolding the beauty of daily gestures and their meditational power.

Jérôme Bel

I incredibly enjoyed being in this Stanford reenactment of the piece, in 2014! I found The Show Must Go On to be an ironic work, full of citations in theatre history, and humanity. During our intense rehearsals, directed by Bel's assistants Dina Ed Dik and Henrique Neves, we built a supportive and fun community. According to some spectators, I danced the best Macarena ever - if this is something to emphasize in a cv...

Let's dance!

Bob Wilson

Just after I wrote my master thesis on Robert Wilson, I attended the Watermill Summer Program in 2007, where I observed Bob's at work in directing opera and solo work. His vision has certainly affected my way of working on the space and of teaching actors to engage spatial sensations and relations.

Théâtre du Radeau

Radeau's theatre works are marked by the utmost beauty, rigurous theatre and acting crafts, and radical critique of Western society of the Spectacle. They have certainly affected my understanding of contemporary theatre. From 1999 to 2011, I followed the performances, workshops, cultural and political debates that have nurtured the community gathering around the Radeau. It is now more difficult for me to follow them from the U.S., because their work is shown mostly in Europe, but I hope to continue attending their activities periodically. I wrote my bachelor thesis on their performance Les Cantates and a scholalry article comparing their embodied philosophy, done through stage language, with Martin Heidegger's process-based thought, appeared in Mimesis Journal in 2013.

Giulia Vittori