Calling all professional dancers, actors, circus artists and mimes + students at BA and MA level, or the equivalent! This workshop, held by Diana Ferrantini, will be a first exploration of the particular methodology that Teatro del Lemming has developed since its inception in the late 80’s. The peculiarity of Lemming’s work is the use of the senses.

The works of the company are based on the sensorial and dramaturgical involvement of the audience hence the performer has to be a guide for the spectator: her role is to be trusted by the spectator and, to obtain this trust, she must listen, adapt herself and be in constant dialogue with the spectator. These elements are the foundations of performers training and are the material of the workshop done by Teatro del Lemming:

The performer is a GUIDE: the one who is able to lead the spectator in the beyond of performance. To be a guide, the performer has to improve her skills of LISTENING – ADAPTATION – DIALOGUE. The work of Lemming’s performers develops these three principles simultaneously in four directions: toward herself, toward her partners, in the space, toward the spectator. The main instrument of this research is the body. The sense/the senses of the body. In this type of scenic work, the body isn’t a prosthesis of the mind, but is fullness, is something naked that permits the nakedness of the aim and the truth of the encounter with other aims and other bodies. For us the five senses of the performer are an appeal to fullness of life and a way to reach the beyond of performance and the creative skills of the performer. Relating with herself, with her partners, with the space and with the spectator, the performer has to bare herself radically, has to research deeply the listening and the attention toward herself and the others.”

Teatro del Lemming is an experimental theatre company founded in 1987 by Massimo Munaro and Martino Ferrari. They are recognised as one of the leading companies of the new Italian and European theatre. “THE SPECTATOR’S THEATRE” is the poetics originated and developed by Teatro del Lemming over the past 40 years. Within this framework they question the relation between actor and spectator. During the last sixteen years their research has focused on myth. Through the myth, the actors build bridges between them and the spectators, crossing all conventional barriers and borders and thereby create a real human relation.

The workshop is led by Diana Ferrantini.​​