THEATRE COMPANY OF STREET ARTISTS PICCOLO NUOVO TEATRO
- 01The Company Piccolo Nuovo Teatro - PNT (Little New Theatre) was founded in 2010 and is the heritage of the historic company ATMO. Some of the artists that were part of the old company came together to found a cooperative in order to create Piccolo Nuovo Teatro, a new group of artists that carry on the tradition of ATMO offering both old shows and new productions.
The experience acquired during 20 years of activity allowed them to face their new path with confidence and enthusiasm as Piccolo Nuovo Teatro.
Nowadays the group is composed of eight elements and continues to be active in searching for new means of expression in a variety of performing arts (aerial dance, stilts, acrobatics, aerial acrobatics, clowning) and in the invention and construction of scenography, costumes, special effects, masks etc. Tradition meets innovation to create productions of street theatre of great visual and emotional impact.
THEATRE COMPANY PICCOLO NUOVO TEATRO TODAY
RATAPLAN: SCHOOL OF STREET THEATRE, CIRCUS AND THEATRICAL ARTS
- 02The acquisition of new skills and the opening out of the company to new forms and languages of theatre has triggered the leap to opening a school of street theatre for children. This will eventually include a school of circus theatre for children too. For a short period the school was housed in the premises of the Teatro Esperia in Bastia Umbra. From the start the company had a number of successes which led to the decision to purchase a Big Top circus tent so that the school of circus theatre could be transferred to it. This was named 'Rataplan'.
The intent is to teach to children, in addition to theater arts, greater awareness of themselves and their potential physical expressiveness, to develop teamwork and relationships with others, enhancing their use of verbal expression and learning to organize their fantasies according to the rules of theatrical language.
The school of street theater was immediately greatly appreciated, especially by parents who found significant improvements in their children's social relationships and self confidence.
The configuration has changed: no more short courses but a real school, a one year duration with the aim of training future street artists. At our school every year the children, young
people and adults will acquire new skills until they have a wealth of experience that will range from knowing how to use stilts and how to create masks to knowing how to walk on the tightrope and how to build a structure for scenography etc.
Theatre Company of Street Artists,
Via dell'Artigianato, 15
06083 - Bastia Umbra (Pg) Italy
P.I.03123460549
Tel. +39 075 7980672
Fax +39 075 7980673
Email Company - info@piccolonuovoteatro.it
Email Circus School - info@scuolacircorataplan.it