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 The Theatrical: Why?
 When I have thought about this event on the theatre, I have focused my attention on what form of theatrical language could be trans-national, and it could put aside from the languages and from the specific cultures of the audience... and the answer has immediately been me clear: the mask, that reveals the theater instead of covering in reality and through it the essence of the human instinct, of the characters and of the bodily communication. The mask, in its various forms and social and cultural contexts, resumes the world of the equilibrium and the silence, preceding and going over the movements and the words. It is a direct equation that takes the actor and spectator from the impression to the expression, it is the direct support of an exploration of the senses and the human passions through the bodily space using the rhythms and the forms of a specific but unconscious language.
This means that the mask theater is a type of atavistic artistic expression that directly communicates, through the lived one, with the most ancestral and direct part of a man. It deals with a kind of theater in which the convention between actors and audiences is immediate and recognizable: the level of the theatrical "game", using the mask, reaches and overcomes the anecdote and reach the universal one. For this reason it comes from all people immediately recognized and still more understood.
Then, when we speak of mask we don't mean only that artificial object that the face of the actor covers and immobilizes the facial expressions of it, but we mean a theatrical language and a way to communicate in which the body wins on the word, in which the instinct wins on the reason. So also the clown is a mask.. More specifically the clown "clandestine" is a clown in unknown, without red nose, that acts without never disclosing his own nature of clown: his is a job on the truth of the representation, that is successful if the public is surprised and doesn't understand what happens. Don't fall in the artfulness of the character, the clown must work with and on the neutral Mask.
“there are three masks:
the one we think we are,
the one we really are,
and the one we have in common”
Jacques Le coq
Alessio Nardin
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