In collaboration with Morgana Communication

Starting dates: 4/2/2008 -14/4/2008 - 19/5/2008- 16/6/2007- 28/7/2008 - 13/10/2008 - 24/11/2008
Duration Language Course: min. 2 weeks
Duration course: 2 weeks
Standard Lessons Language Course: 40 lessons (4 per day, 20 per week)
Special Lessons: 30 hours (3 per day, 15 per week)
Tuition: on all 6 (monthly) ability levels
Class size: max. 12 participants in language course class
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In the morning, at Morgana Communication, students will attend a special italian course learning through the study of Italian cinema. In the afternoon Standard Italian lessons will be taught at Leonardo da Vinci School.

Cinema and words, images and dialogues are – in the Italian cinema – indissoluble. Since the post war period - with the Neorealism and Visconti, Fellini, Antonioni… - and until the modern Bertolucci, Salvatores and Tornatore, the movies of our country give a lot of codes and registers to improve the Italian language control.

Through the vision and the playful re-interpretation as well as the retracing of the performance of Italian cinematography we can recognize different styles from the standard language to the regional one, from slang to dialects: all of them keeping the prosodies, intonations, expressivities that make every language so particular and alive.

Subjects of the course:

• Cinematic Acting: elements of history of Italian movie traditions and of its authors, with particular interest to the contemporary production.
• History of Cinema: elements of history of the Italian cinema traditions and of its authors, with a particular focus on nowadays production.
• Diction and phonetics: difference between written and oral language; the usual errors in the Italian phonetics; pronunciation exercises; dialogue, conversation, verbal re-elaboration.

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In collaboration with Morgana Communication

Starting dates: 18/2/2008- 5/5/2008- 2/6/2008- 18/8/2008- 27/10/2008
Duration Language Course: min. 2 weeks
Duration Course: 2 weeks
Lessons Language Course: 40 lessons (4 per day, 20 per week)
Lessons Art Course: 30 hours (3 per day, 15 per week)
Tuition: on all 6 (monthly) ability levels
Class size: max. 12 participants in language course class
Prices: please click here

In the morning, at Morgana Communication, students will attend a special italian course learning through the study of Italian theatre. In the afternoon Standard Italian lessons will be taught at the Leonardo da Vinci School.

From the classical Goldoni to the “Nobel prizes” Pirandello and Dario Fo, Italian theatre has been the match point between different expressive styles from the comedy to the tragedy, from the drama to the parody and cabaret. Italian theatre – built around the “word” – is the centre of our project: for a learning of a funny, involving and alive language.

Through its memorization – and re-interpretation, improvisation – of classical and modern authors, language has become “natural”, allowing the control of prosodic and over-segmental values (rhythms, intonations, loudness, gesticulation) wich are fundamental for Italian pronunciation and pragmatics.

Subjects of the course:

• Theatrical Acting: improvisation and interpretation; acting genres; character psychology; verbal and extra verbal communication;
• History of Show: elements of history of Italian theatrical translations and of its authors, with a particular interest to modern production;
• Diction and phonetics: difference between written and oral language; the most usual errors in the Italian phonetics; pronunciation exercises; dialogue, conversation, verbal re-elaboration.

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In collaboration with Morgana Communication

Starting dates: 31/3/2008- 29/9/2008
Duration Language Course: min. 2 weeks
Duration Course: 2 weeks
Lessons Language Course: 40 lessons (4 per day, 20 per week)
Lessons Art Course: 30 hours (3 per day, 15 per week)
Tuition: on all 6 (monthly) ability levels
Class size: max. 12 participants in language course class
Prices: please click here

In the morning, at Morgana Communication, students will attend a special italian course learning through the study of Italian poetry and literature. In the afternoon Standard Italian lessons will be taught at Leonardo da Vinci School.

Among the romance languages, Italian is the nearest to Latin. Every classical study – on the roman, medieval and humanistic age – has to compare with Italian. But the Italian language is also the language of Dante Alighieri and his Divine Comedy, as well as of authors of the Renaissance (Tasso and Ariosto) and of the modernity (Montale, Calvino, Pasolini) famous to international and intercontinental public.
Starting from literature and poetry is one of the most involving and stimulating approach to understand phonetic, musical, intellectual and amazing nuances of Italian language.

Subjects of the course:

• Italian Language and Literature: elements of history of Italian poetry and literature, with a particular focus on the production on 4th century and Dante Alighieri's.
• Verse Acting: elements of Italian poetry and poetic genres history, with a focus on contemporary production, writing and poetic composition exercises.
• Diction and Phonetics: difference between written and oral language; the most usual errors in the Italian phonetics; pronunciation exercises; dialogue, conversation, verbal re-elaboration.

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In collaboration with Luxardo Gallery

Starting dates: 4/2/2008- 16/2/2008 -31/3/2008- 14/4/2008- 2/6/2008- 16/6/2008- 4/8/2008- 18/8/2008- 6/10/2008- 20/10/2008- 1/12/2008
Duration Language Course: min. 2 weeks
Duration Course: 2 weeks
Lessons Language Course: 40 lessons (4 per day, 20 per week)
Lessons of photography: 16 hours (2 per day, 8 per week, from Tuesday to Friday)
Tuition: on all 6 (monthly) ability levels
Class size: max. 12 participants in language course class
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In the morning, at Luxardo Gallery, students will attend the course of photography. In the afternoon Standard Italian lessons will be taught at Leonardo da Vinci School.

Learning photography or deepening your knowledge on this art will make really unique your stay in Rome. In fact you will be able to see the eternal town from a new point of view, guided by professionists who can help to emerge the artist inside you.

The experience of Luxardo Gallery in several photographic sectors will offer you an integrated course. Starting from history of photography you will discover the “crossroad”, between photo as an artistic product or as a representation of reality, arriving to the new solutions offered by digital technology. The course will introduce you to the techniques of picture taking in several environments and conditions of light, from internal to external, from daylight to the uses of flash. The course will take place at Luxardo Gallery and it will also include outside sessions and lessons at Luxardo photographic studio.

Subjects and Techniques

• History and evolution of photography, from Daguerre to Reflex 35mm. The meaning of a pixel.
• The digital camera revolution.
• The light in its various aspects and forms : spectrum, colour temperature, diffusion, diffraction. Backlight, under cover light, and side light.
• Photography, between representation and artistic product. The Reflex camera, components and mechanisms, medium and large formats. Film, functioning, interaction with light, right choice. Times, diaphragms, depth of field. Lenses, chemical and optical principles.
• The communication power of photography, photography as reportage (journalistic cut), photography in the advertising world. Lenses: Wide-angle, standard ,telephoto: how the prospective changes according to the different lenses.
• Photography artistic power, from a mechanical instrument to a media of imagination, projection and artistic research. Exposure, exposure meter, light measurements techniques and methods, couples t/d.
• Photography types: portrait, nude, landscape, interior, still life.
• Shots in interior and outside environments. Practical lessons in different light conditions: under cover, backlight, daylight and nocturnal.
• Picture manipulation, the tricks of the trade. Limits and benefits of digital photography.
• Digital formats and resolutions, memories and technical supports, practice and editing.
• The light in studio, production of a photo-book, learning the use of flash and illumination schemes.

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In collaboration with Maldoror Cinema school

Starting dates: 3/3/2008- 17/3/2008- 3/5/2008- 19/5/2008- 7/7/2008- 21/7/2008- 1/9/2008- 15/9/2008- 3/11/2008- 17/11/2008
Duration Language Course: min. 2 weeks
Duration Directing Course: 2 weeks + 2 weeks
Lessons Language Course: 40 lessons (4 per day, 20 per week)
Lessons Directing Course: min. 20 hours
Tuition: on all 6 (monthly) ability levels
Class size: max. 12 participants in language course class
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In the afternoon, at Maldoror Cinema school, students will attend the course of cinema. In the morning standard Italian lessons will be taught at Leonardo da Vinci School.

Becoming cinema director is a long and thrilling task everywhere, but the beauty of the environment and its charming atmosphere can ease the learning of the basic of this important figure. You will be introduced to the secrets of the world of Cinema in one of its oldest capital, Rome.

At Maldoror Cinema School , through practical exercises, participants will learn about all aspects of the film language: shooting, lighting, sound, direction, acting, editing, publishing.

The course is divided in two sessions of 2 weeks each: The first 2 weeks will introduce students to the art of directing, while the second session will be dedicate to deepen their basic knowledge.

At the end of the 4 weeks course a short film will be produced to prove the practical knowledge acquired. It will be possible to shot in historical places within Rome (as Foro Romano, e.g.).

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In collaboration with Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio directed by Giovanna Marini

Starting dates: 11/2/2008- 3/3/2008- 7/4/2008- 12/5/2008- 16/6/2008- 12/7/2008- 18/8/2007- 15/9/2008- 13/10/2008- 10/11/2008- 1/12/2008
Duration Language Course: min. 2 weeks
Duration Masterclass: 2 weeks
Lessons Language Course: 40 lessons (4 per day, 20 per week)
Lessons Folk Music Course: 30 hours (3 per day, 15 per week)
Tuition: on all 6 (monthly) ability levels
Class size: max. 12 participants in language course class
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Thanks to the collaboration with Scuola di Musica Popolare del Testaccio, in the morning students will be introduced to the Italian Folk Tradition through pratical lessons on folk dancing, folk instruments and folk songs. In the afternoon standard Italian lessons will be taught at Leonardo da Vinci School.

Discover the primitiveness in you and the roots of our “modern” culture. Folk music is able to put the audience in contact with the man and his history. It traces us back to the relationship that for many years man has established with the Earth and the nature, through the melody of the songs, the rhythm of the dances and the use of “poor” instruments as reed-pipes, tambourines, mandolins etc.
The first part of the course will be devoted in a introduction (theoretical and pratical) to folk dance and to the playing of instruments. The second part will focus on dancing and singing.

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