An intense meeting at the Lyceum Danza Mara Fusco in Naples with actor, director, and pedagogue Enzo Scala, who captivated the audience with his extensive experience and engaging verve in his magisterial presentation.
Scala spoke about his two great theater masters: Decroux and Marceau. He invited all students to leave, meet humanity, learn about new idioms, different cultures, trying not to give in to the mass flattening that has been going on for decades now and denounced - already over half a century ago - by the great Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The Neapolitan actor talked about his experience as a mime, director and teacher in half of Europe and South America. “Traveling and taking risks are fundamental actions for those who undertake the path of the Theater” underlined Michele Monetta.
The pertinent questions of the ICRA Project students then developed the discussion on the important difference between action and sensation for those who practice the scene. “Theatre is the physical place for imagination. Travel, take risks, study and experience the world, otherwise what do you tell on stage? What do you give to the audience?”, is what emerged from the lively meeting with Scala at the Accademia di Mimodramma.
Enzo Scala, between the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, left Naples, like many other young artists of the time who, dissatisfied with what the territory had to offer, looked for something else in various cities in Europe. He met Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux and then became their student. Scala was the director for many years of the Escuela de Actores de Canarias of insular Spain in Tenerife (where he currently lives) and Gran Canaria. The meeting with the director and pedagogue Enzo Scala was organized by ICRA Project of Naples - a center directed and coordinated by Michele Monetta and Lina Salvatore - as part of the project approved by the MiC Ministry of Culture entitled "Actors are born, but they become", as well as by the Campania Region.
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