Dromena and Legomena
A Divergent Concordance

The fundamental model for the art of speech and action that I would like to describe is the ellipse. The centre that unites these two distant focal points is dramaturgy, the theatrical technique that brings together dromena and legomena, words and actions. Here, however, I would like to analyse their separation, which also implies a nostalgia for the centre and for their union.

Claudia Castellucci is a dramaturge, choreographer and scholar and the co-founder, with Romeo Castellucci and with Chiara and Paolo Guidi, of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (now Societas), a theatre company that since the 1980s has established its reputation internationally with a radical reinvention of the language for the stage. In 2020 she received the Silver Lion for Dance from La Biennale di Venezia.

This public forum is intended as a meeting-point where citizens, artists and scholars can re-examine the practice of theatre as radical–rooted in the abundance of human expression.