CHIARA D'ANNA

Actress, Director, Movement Director, Commedia dell'Arte Specialist



Dr Chiara D’Anna leads workshops, courses, masterclasses and one-to-one sessions on Physical Theatre, Movement, Devising, Character and Commedia dell'Arte worldwide.


She currently teaches at RADA and Goldsmiths University in London, as well as at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy.


After studying at Teatranza Drama School in Italy, Chiara developed her practice in Poland and the UK. She trained at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław with Zygmunt Molik, co-founder of the Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre, and with Andrei Droznin, Master Teacher of Movement at the Moscow Art Theater School and the Vakhtangov School in Moscow, as well as Head of Movement for the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.


Following her MA in Physical Theatre at Royal Holloway University, Chiara trained at the Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice". This led to her collaboration with Ali Hodge and the international performance ensemble The Quick and the Dead. The outcome of this research was published by Routledge on the DVD-pamphlet ‘Core Training For the Relational Actor’. Core Training is taught in leading dram schools in the UK and internationally.


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Workshop Participant, COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE, Nottingham European Theatre Festival



"Under Chiara's guidance creativity flourishes and ideas spark!"



Actress, DEVISING MASTERCLASS, Rose Bruford College, London



"An extremely enthusiastic tutor who gets involved and guides you with energy and passion."



Student, COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE COURSE, E15 Acting Schoo​​l



"I love that you blend from your experience of theatre, dance, yoga, spirituality and you make it uniquely your own".



Workshop Participant, NATURAL YOU MOVEMENT MEDITATION, London Buddhist Art Centre,



"Chiara was exceptional: I feel that I can 100% apply techniques that I learnt in my own future work!"



Workshop Participant, COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE, Alte Wursterei Studio Cologne, Germany



"Exceed expectation…lovely, gentle, restorative day: I loved the trust work and the playfulness"



Workshop Participant, NATURAL YOU, London Buddhist Art Centre



"Brilliant tutor who created a lovely encouraging atmosphere that inspires you to work and create fun and exciting theatre."



Student, COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE COURSE, E15 Acting School, London



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Acting Student, SCREEN ACTING MASTERCLASS, Identity School of Acting



"Chiara's unique style had a huge impact on my own practice now as a professional!”



Actor, DEVISING PROJECT, Rose Bruford College, London



"Chiara in an excellent, energetic and incredibly knowledgeable tutor."



Acting Student, COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE COURSE, E15 Acting School, London



" I loved the energy and the friendly atmosphere that you created. Very powerful...something has moved inside me!”



Workshop Participant, NATURAL YOU MOVEMENT MEDITATION, Buddhist Art Centre, London



"Your energy, commitment and style of teaching is fantastic and inspiring."



Acting Student, COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE COURSE, E15 Acting School, London



Chiara D'Anna | Natural You Workshops



DEVISING



for ensembles & solo shows



This course offers a range of useful tools to create intriguing characters, extraordinary imaginary worlds and captivating narratives for the stage. Rather than interpreting a written text participants will ‘write’ their own stories.


CONTENT:


Inner Creativity and Playfulness: We will re-connect with our playful nature through games exploring how to interact with others while playing. We will work with our memories and the senses to develop physical scores for the stage. We will then integrate costumes and props to explore how a character can emerge from a playful situation.


Physical Approach to Character: Playful interactions with props and costumes will naturally lead to the next stage of the creative process: character building. Characters will start to emerge by refining the physical and vocal scores developed in stage 1 (inner creativity).


Narratives After our initial work on memory, imagination and character-building, we will explore how to develop a dramaturgy through improvisation and devising. This is the stage when the piece starts to emerge.


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PHYSICAL APPROACH TO CHARACTER



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This is an energetic course exploring the full potential of performers' body as a ‘medium of expression’. You will build a ‘movement toolbox’ to develop your awareness, readiness and responsiveness. Participants will expand their self-awareness, spacial awareness and responsiveness and explore physical approaches to characterisation. This will allow you to find ease of expression, presence, physical instinct and spontaneity. This is an excellent training to expand performers' physical vocabulary.


CONTENT:


Awareness: We will focus on how actors work together in relation to one another and the space. We will discover a deeper physical understanding of mind, body and space in performance, and expand our awareness, presence and availability on stage.


Mutuality and Trust: An exploration of trust, availability and awareness through a series of exercises inspired the notion of ‘mutuality’. These series of exercises are inspired by Chiara’s work with Ali Hodge on the ‘core training’; a new methodology of actor training that encourages a profound awareness of inter-relationships.


Physical Approach to Character: We will play with texts, costumes and objects exploring a range of character-led devising methodologies.


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