3 - UNIVERSITY RESEARCHES

Since 1994 Claudia Contin Arlecchino is invited at the CIMES of University of Bologna by Professor Gerardo Guccini and Professor Eugenia Casini-Ropa for a series of didactic collaborations. In 1995, on the request of Gerardo Guccini, she released her first essay: "Journey in the Commedia dell'Arte", published in the first issue of the new magazine of CIMES "Trials of Dramaturgy".
The collaboration then continue until 1998 with workshops, conference-shows and theatrical essays for university students. The themes of the didactic paths concern, in that period, both the Commedia dell'Arte and her new technique of Tragedy of Art and their connections with the oriental theatre from India, Indonesia and China.

Since then there have been many Commedia dell'Arte productions inspired, written or performed by Claudia Contin Arlecchino and many graduation theses that have followed its development. In particular, the project "Profano Ordine della Maschera" which, since 1997, has constituted a permanent laboratory for the training and production of new performances in the streets, squares and alternative spaces. In this context, in addition to the rewriting of new dramaturgies for the Commedia dell'Arte, a wide research space has been dedicated to improvisation techniques in unprotected situations and outside traditional theatres.