Convegno «Comicità23»

From March 23-25, 2023, the international conference, which grew out of Anna Stoll Knecht’s “Ambition” project “Music and clowning in Europe, 20th-21st c.,” will explore the mechanics and theories of comedy, humor and laughter at the Dimitri Academy (Verscio).

Program March 25, 2023
Sessione 4 – Musical comedy
09:30 – 10:15
Benjamin Lassauzet (Université Clermont Auvergne e CREAA, Strasbourg): “Du comique musical”

10:15 – 11:00
Delphine Vincent (Université de Fribourg): “The sound of laughter: humorous musical devices in films”

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00
Marco Lorenzi (Il Mulino di Amleto, Turin) and Anna Stoll Knecht (Accademia Dimitri): “Spasso Musicale”

12:00 – 13:30
Lunch break

Sessione 5 – Comedy cinema
13:30 – 14:15
Patrick Désile (Thalim/CNRS): TBA

14:15 – 15:00
Yvonne Augustin (Zürich Film Festival): “The other side of the mask: What clown’s masks in film hide and reveal”

15:00 – 16:00
Break

16:00 – 17:15
Gardi Hutter at the Teatro Dimitri “La Sarta”

19:00
Dinner

20:30
Jos Houben (École de théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Parigi) at the Teatro Dimitri “The Art of Laughter”