{"id":60324,"date":"2019-03-04T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/03\/toronto-conferenze-e-workshop-sulla-maschera-teatrale-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:30:41","slug":"toronto-conferenze-e-workshop-sulla-maschera-teatrale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2019\/03\/toronto-conferenze-e-workshop-sulla-maschera-teatrale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto hosts conferences and workshops on theatre masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expressive power of masks, common to most cultures and representing one of the oldest examples of artistic expression, was the main focus of conferences and workshops organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. Two representatives of the Sartori family spoke about the history of masks and the ancient art of making them in leather. This family, thanks also to its founder, Amleto, has gathered a wealth of historical, practical and theoretical knowledge in 70 years of research, all to be found at the International Mask Museum in Abano Terme.\u00a0The conferences held at the Italian Cultural Institute and at the University of Toronto, also highlighted a renewed interest in the Commedia dell\u2019Arte that started right after the end of the second world war. Giorgio Strehler, director of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, was especially instrumental in promoting this genre. He brought\u00a0 together a number of artists and asked Amleto Sartori to create the masks for his production of\u00a0 Goldoni&#8217;s\u00a0 \u2018The Servant of Two Masters\u2019, with Marcello Moretti playing Harlequin. Sartori\u2019s research led to development of the first modern method to make leather masks, restoring a tradition used in Renaissance times.\u00a0This mask-making method formed the focus of a 10-day workshop organised in association with the Canadian theatre group Bad New Days at the Centre for Drama, Theatre &#038; Performance Studies of the University of Toronto.\u00a015 students from Canada and the United States studied the theory, history and manufacture of theatrical masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The expressive power of masks, common to most cultures and representing one of the oldest examples of artistic expression, was the main focus of conferences and workshops organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. Two representatives of the Sartori family spoke about the history of masks and the ancient art of making them in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-60324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}