Giovanni Fusetti
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SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE DI CREAZIONE TEATRALE
In this web site you will find all the information about the International School of Theatre Creation named HELIKOS, based in Florence, Italy. The school is the organic evolution of the Kiklos School in Padua, Italy in 2004.
The new cycle of the school has happily started in October 2010, with a First Year class of the new three-year professional training program.
The opening first year at Helikos in October 2010, has gathered students from Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, the UK and the USA.
A new season has started on October 17th 2011 with a new First Year and a Secon Year.
The next available training will start in October 2013. We are now accepting applications for 2013. If you wish to apply for the 2013 session please contact us or check the admission page for further information.
If you are interested in getting to know more about the school or if you are in the process of applying, please visit the workshops page, or come to Florence to visit us and watch some of the students performances.
Happy life and art !
Giovanni Fusetti
Pedagogical Director
December 21st, 2011
HELIKOS IS AN
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF THEATRE CREATION
INTERNATIONAL
It welcomes students from all over the world, creating an international and multicultural environment.
SCHOOL
HELIKOS is a training centre dedicated to the learning and teaching of Theatre Art. As a school it's the place for the practice of a pedagogical journey.
of THEATRE
The language of Helikos is theatre: the play of representing life and human experience. In the journey of theatre, Helikos is developing new artistic and pedagogic forms, which are in permanent evolution.
CREATION
In Helikos’ practice of theatre-making the actor is not only interpreter but also author and director of her/his own work. CREATION is the birth of the world, and the artist recreates the world in each gesture. To create (from the Greek: chreas=flesh) means to give body, and the body is the main instrument of the artist. It allows beauty to become visible.
Helikos is a Greek word that means SPIRAL. As a symbol, the spiral is common to all ages and cultures and has various meanings, all connected with the dynamic of evolution. The spiral represents the cyclical movement that expands outward from its point of origin and inward towards the center. The spiral expresses extension, cyclical continuity and development, progress in the rotation of creation and perpetual balance between opposite dynamics.
It’s the manifestation of the evolution of a state or a force.
The choice of the spiral as a symbol is connected with the vision of a school and its pedagogy as forms in permanent evolution. The spiral is also a metaphor of the journey of the artist/poet through the training of the school, training that is always connected with its beginning but is projected into the future.
Helikos’ purposes are:
- The PROFESSIONAL TRAINING of creative theatre artists: actors, directors, authors and teachers, capable of creating their own work in an autonomous, creative, conscious, vital and durable way, becoming active witnesses and protagonists of the contemporary world and the culture of their time.
- ADVANCED TRAINING of artists, on theatre creation and movement theatre.
- Research, creation and training in THEATRE PEDAGOGY. The meeting between theatre art and other artistic paths, developing new projects in the world of performing, directing, playwriting and artists’ training.
-The development of INTERDISCIPLINAR CONNECTIONS between Theatre and other disciplines and practices: plastic arts, martial arts, philosophy, psychology, therapeutic practices, ecology, spirituality, with the aim of training an innovative "heartist", able to integrate art and consciousness.
