4 - L'ARLECCHINO ERRANTE

From 1997 to 2018 Claudia Contin Arlecchino was the symbolic character and artistic co-director of the international workshop of Commedia dell'Arte called "L'Arlecchino Errante" which took place annually for 22 editions between August and September in Pordenone in Italy, with students, actors, masters and artists from all over the world. "L'Arlecchino Errante" was a long intensive workshop and a flourishing festival at the turn of the 20th and 21st century, in which the Commedia dell'Arte was carefully compared with the most refined techniques and performing arts from various cultures.
The specific teaching of L'ARLECCHINO ERRANTE is still exported all over the world, with study trips, internships and workshops
in different languages.

Claudia Contin Arlecchino is also the only one among the actors to use on stage, for herself and her colleagues, only leather masks made in her own artisan workshop ''Porto Arlecchino'', where she also holds courses in mask making, covering the entire artisan cycle from plaster casts to neutral masks, from the sculpture of the wooden matrices to the final moulding of the cow leather for the making of the masks in the ancient way used in the 16th century tradition, proposing today new figures of Zanni, Arlecchino, Pantalone, Balanzone, Brighella, Capitano, Pulcinella and all the other characters that have made the history of Italian popular theatre.