Giovanni Fusetti
While receiving a scientific education through an MA in agriculture and ecology at the University of Padova, he encounters pedagogy and social theatre. He enters a pedagogic and artistic search that has been happening over the last 20 years. He has been student, pedagogic assistant and teacher at the Ecole International de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, before being co-founder of Kìklos Teatro in Padua, Italy. Here he has been pedagogical director of the Scuola Internazionale di Creazione Teatrale KIKLOS, where he has taught Improvisation, Movement Analysis and Technique, and Theatre Creation. As a performer, after an intense early period of street theater and storytelling, he has explored movement based creation with various companies including Circo Crappo, Teatro Osvaldo, The Clod Ensemble (London), Tre Magi Teatro, Il Triangelo, Larven Teatro. He has worked as movement coach and assistant director for Commedia dell'arte company Pantakin da Venezia and is corrently collaborating with Pig Iron Theatre in Phildelphia (US) as trainer and devising consultant. He is passionate about midwifing clowns and the process of devising clown shows: he has directed and co-written two clown solos and coached many clowns to existance throughout the world.
As a pedagogue, he runs workshops internationally, both as a free lance and collaborating with theatre companies, theatre schools and universities, including LISPA, London International School of Performing Arts (London), Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre (Blue Lake, California), Centre Generation Tao in Paris, Scuola di Teatro a l'Avogaria and Accademia Teatrale Veneta in Venice, The University of London, Rosegarden Theatre House (Norway), Naropa University (Boulder, Colorado). In the development of his work in the US he has been granted a 01-VISA as an "expert of extraordinary abilities in the arts".
His 20 years of pedagogical research include training in Theatre in Education, Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Gestalt Therapy, Bionergetics, Wutao and Process Work.
In his pedagogy, he is integrating physical theatre with different practices of physical and emotional awareness, for the training of the actor/poet/creator, on the path reconnecting theatre to its origin: ecstasy.
He seeks to be fully alive while on this powerful, fragile and beautiful planet.
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