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Fabrizio Crisafulli
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history of theatre
scenography
lighting design
Fabrizio Crisafulli
ACTIVE LIGHT Issues of Light in Contemporary Theatre
ACTIVE LIGHT
Fabrizio Crisafulli, Active Light: Issues of Light in Contemporary Theatre, prefazione di Dorita Hannah, Artdigiland, Dublino, 2013 (disponibile anche in ebook)
Accessibile agli uomini, regia e luci di Fabrizio Crisafulli, 1993. Nella foto: Daria Deflorian Accessibile agli uomini, direction and light design by Fabrizio Crisafulli, 1993. In the photo: Daria Deflorian
Battito, naso, lungo, installation by Fabrizio Crisafulli, dedicated to Pinocchio, Galleria Sala 1, Roma, 2002. Photo Stefano Fontebasso De Martino
tures such as the ability to shape space and time, produce meaning and poetry, build drama, carry out actions”. As regards the laboratories he has been carrying out for years with the students, and with which he produces shows without texts and actors, but made of light, sound, theatrically organized objects, he says: “to me, working with light separately is as important as it is to separately work with sound for a musician, or, in my work as a director, with performers in the rehearsal studio. First of all it means to research the possibility, for light, to define a peculiar language and ability to autonomously build from a dramaturgical point of view”. The elegance of the edition, the high graphic quality, the numerous images are not put to use in a picture book, or a book published for the Christmas market, but in a work with a high scientific content, and a possible work tool for historians, scholars and students of theatre and visual arts, and – given the amount of information and practical advices it provides – for operators, directors, designers,technicians. The same editor also published Active Light, English version of Luce attiva, printed in Italy in 2007, in which Crisafulli makes an historical excursus, from the end of the nineteenth century to the present date, of the use of theatrical light as an autonomous expressive element and active from a poetic and dramaturgical point of view. From pioneers Mariano Fortuny, Adolphe Appia, Edward Gordon Craig, Alexandre de Salzmann, to contemporary masters such as Josef Svoboda, Alwin Nikolais, Robert Wilson. The english version is also available as an eBook.
LIBRI FABRIZIO CRISAFULLI
Battito, naso, lungo, installazione di Fabrizio Crisafulli, dedicata a Pinocchio, Galleria Sala 1, Roma, 2002. Foto Stefano Fontebasso De Martino
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