2 - FOUNDATION OF THE TRAGEDIA DELL'ARTE

In 1987 in Venice Arlecchino Claudia Contin decides to transfer her knowledge of the work of Egon Schiele from iconographic inspiration
to her work as an actor, starting to encode on her own body the new physical and vocal technique. She asks advice to director Ferruccio Merisi for a photographic documentation of her body postures inspired by the works of Schiele, later to become the subject of university exam in "Set Design" with Professor Renato Padoan.

In 1989 Claudia Contin Arlecchino begins to experience the new technique also in didactics, offering courses of Tragedia dell'Arte as an evolution of the corporeal mime's techniques, within the programs of the of Venetian theatrical circuit named Arteven. In 1990 the Tragedia dell'Arte technique becomes one of the basic subjects of her new Scuola Sperimentale dell'Attore in Pordenone.
In 1994 and until 1998 the Project Egon Schiele - Imagery Anatomies
and Physical Actions is organized as a teaching subject at the Center for Music and Performing Arts Interfaculty at University of Bologna, and thanks to the collaboration of Professor Gerardo Guccini, the
researcher Claudia Contin Arlecchino can teach her technique to
different groups of chosen graduate students.