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Organization
Scott McGehee, Founding Director Accademia Dell'Arte Scott D. McGehee, PhD is the founding director of the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo. Born in the Little Rock, Arkansas, he studied at the University of Arkansas, Harvard University and receive his doctorate from Boston College in European Intellectual History. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship and moved to Italy in 1995 to do research on the transition from a Renaissance to a contemporary world view with a particular emphasis on Italian illuminismo and the origins of modern economic analysis. With a long term interest in the expressive potential of non-commercial performing arts, he initiated the re-founding of the Arezzo Festival in 2002 in collaboration with the Piccolo Teatro of Arezzo and opened the Accademia dell’Arte in an effort to provide a point of reference for student and artist internationally to develop and share their work in an environment that valorizes alternatives to the banalization of art as mere commodity. Gianni Bruschi Gianni is the founding director of Terìaca. He received his diploma in acting from the Piccolo Teatro di Arezzo and subsequently received his Laurea from the University of Siena in “Storia del Teatro e dello Spettacolo” with a thesis entitled Molière et le Théatre du Soleil of Arianne Mnouchkine. His research in voice, music and theatre has include numerous studies and seminars in Italy: Franco Di Francescantonio, Han Arai (Han Mime Kobo - Tokyo), Loriano della Rocca (ex Cricot 2 Tadeusz Kantor), Sergio Pisapia Fiore (Centro Nazionale Teatrale), Gabriella Bartolomei, Hazel Carey (Black Theater), in Paris at the ARTA of Arianne Mnouchkine, follows and documents Giulia Lazzarini in "La passion théatrale auprès de Giorgio Strehler". Studies with Bob Stoloff and Anne Peckham of the Berkley School of Music at the Umbria Jazz Festival with a special emphasis on vocal technique. Gianni sings for the Terìaca Ensemble (ethnojazz) that is inspired by the popular music of southern Italy, where he feels the urge of returning to the roots of the Italian language and of its varied expressive regional dialects. Beginning his research from the ancient arias of the Salento region (in the far south east of Italy) and listening at Diego Carpitella and Alain Lomax’s recordings, the Teriaca ensemble performed with Hicham Halimi/Daqqa Roudania – Marocco, Jorge Diaz Rodriguez, Isabelle Laudenbach, Lisa Bause, Sílvia Pérez Cruz/Las Migas – Spain - Zohra Elajnaf, Ayoub Elajnef, Hassin Ben Miloud, Raoued Rhouma/Zhora Lajnef Groupe – Tunisia. |