2 - THE REFOUNDATION OF THE HARLEQUIN

In 1987 and 1988 Claudia Contin Arlecchino brings on stage in Venice a series of interventions with the character of Harlequin, taken from ancient zibaldoni and the anthology ''La Commedia dell'Arte - Storia e testo'' edited by Vito Pandolfi.
Since 1989, the actress begins the accurate codification of the postures and behaviours of the most famous Italian masks, defining specific training techniques for actors and students. In 1990 she founded the Scuola Sperimentale dell'Attore in Pordenone, where the teaching of her Commedia dell'Arte became the basic discipline for the training of the complete actor until 2016, the year in which the pedagogical actress left the association.
In January 1991 she was invited by Professor Clelia Falletti Cruciani at the Teatro Ateneo of La Sapienza University in Rome to give her first official public lecture on the characters of the Commedia dell'Arte, and so the first version of her conferenza buffa "The Inhabitants of Arlecchinia"debuted, considered today her show with the highest number of performances all over the world.
In April 1991, then, with the advice of Professor Fabrizio Cruciani, the show "The MonDologue of Harlequin" debuted in Venice, now considered the manifesto and together a sort of testament of her mask of Harlequin.
It is at this time that the figure of Harlequin becomes the character that identifies the Italian theater and that makes her be recognized as the
first woman to professionally wear the role of this famous mask.
Since 1999 the texts of her shows and her didactics begin to be published and spread in different languages.