Teatro Potlach
Via S. Maria in Castello n.10
Fara in Sabina ( Rieti)
Italy
- Arts
Teatro Potlach was founded in 1976 by Pino Di Buduo and Daniela Regnoli and takes its name from the anthropological studies of the founders. In the language of the indigenous peoples of North-Western America it refers to the free gift which gives honour and prestige to those who give it and those who receive it as well, in this way going beyond the laws of the market and of profit.
The history of Teatro Potlach begins in the years of the Roman theatre avantgarde, with a choice of rejection of mainstream theatre and the search for a new creative and geographical dimension. This eventually led its founding members to single out Fara Sabina, a small village within the Rieti province, as the base of the theatre. This choice has meant for Potlach a way of making theatre outside both traditional and avantgarde circuits, thereby inventing a dimension of coexistence and communal life as a premise and condition for the theatrical work proper.
In order to work on the technical essence of the theatre, and on the search for the total actor and of a kind of dramatic composition based on physical movement, it is meaningful for the actor to commit him- or herself to ongoing self-training. This takes the performer beyond the institutional idea of the theatre and into a constant exchange with the circus and with dance and musical performance through the constant experience of travelling and the ensuing contact on the field with performing cultures from Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Teatro Potlach has been expressing its artistic identity through the production of indoor as well as outdoor performances, and through pedagogical activities involving a range of expressive and performing techniques, with an ongoing exchange of ideas and techniques with national and international groups as part of the search for a professional approach capable of addressing every audience.
To this day the activity of theatre pedagogy is central in the work of the director and of the actors. Over the years the original core has acquired numerous regular or occasional collaborators met during the many tours and whilst travelling to explore other realities of the theatre.
A development of the ongoing research into the pedagogy, the composition and the space of action has been the production, over the past seventeen years (1991-2011), of many and varied performances of the Città invisibili project. For this Teatro Potlach was able to involve artists and communities from urban centres in Europe and in America. This project continues to reflect and regenerate the foundations of theatrical work outside theatres by transforming the spaces of everyday life through the discovery of the cultural identity of each place and the use of the creative energy of its inhabitants.
Teatro Potlach may share his baggage of experience and contacts accumulated in more of 37 years of activities in all over the world
Teatro Potlach is a center of artistic and cultural research, multiculturale.Jjoin the ALF Network could be a good opportunity to get in touch with other realities to share experiences and knowledge.