玛丽亚·康萨格拉(MARIA CONSAGRA)
玛丽亚的专业背景是行动戏剧。她曾经在欧丁剧院北欧Farfa中心做演员，也曾经是这个中心的创始成员。她是一个被认证的行动分析师（美国纽约拉班运动研究中心认证）并且获得了莎拉劳伦斯学院（美国纽约布朗士区）的学士学位。她现在是米兰戏剧学院和米兰 Piccolo剧院的教授。过去，她也曾在纽约大学Wing实验剧院，Tisch艺术学院（美国纽约）和都林斯塔比尔戏剧学院（意大利都林）任过教。她曾是意大利拉班/ Bartenieff研究协会的主席和创始人，为学员提供纽约拉班运动研究所认证行动分析师资格课程。
康萨格拉的职业生涯开始于阳光剧场，这是一个专注于青年观众的剧院。工作由团体指导并且通过即兴创作演化。该剧院的作品在欧洲各地和重要的戏剧节演出，包括威尼斯双年展（意大利），格拉茨艺术节（澳大利亚），南希艺术节（法国）。
她曾是纽约ReCherChez表演研究小组的成员（美国），这个小组由Ruth Maleczech和马布矿场剧院（先锋剧团）的李·布鲁尔领衔。
康萨格拉长期与意大利喜剧演员保罗·罗西合作，构思并导演他的剧作。她还与意大利知名的导演Luca Ronconi在不同的演出中合作，主要负责创立演员的行动。
在玛丽亚的教学工作中，她获得了双硕士学位。她的教学工作主要集中在指导学生演员和专业演员完全意识到自己的身体，无论他们是否主要为肢体戏剧或在二十世纪的戏剧中工作。因为根据拉班赫格洛托夫斯基的理论，身体和心灵是同一的。
康萨格拉和米兰Piccolo剧院和米兰戏剧学院的学生一起创作演出。工作非常的肢体化，并且肢体性完全与想象整合在一起。一些演出是通过布置给学生演员的主题的即兴表演创作出来的；另外一些是从神话中创作出来的；还有一些的创作仍然始于一个面具，这是一种每个学生为自己创作的肢体面具。每个面具作为一个“面具性格”诞生。他们围绕面具性格和主题之间的关系作出的表演创作了演出。
Maria Consagra
Maria Consagra’s background is in movement theater. She acted in and was founding member of the Gruppo Farfa (part of the Nordisk Laboratorium Center, Odin Teatret).She is a Certified Movement Analyst (LIMS: Laban Institute of Movement Studies, New York,USA) and has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College ( Bronxville, New York, USA).
Currently, Consagra teaches at the Scuola D'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milano and at the Scuola del Piccolo Teatro di Milano. In the past, she taught at the Experimental Theater Wing, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts (New York,USA) as well as at the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino ( Turin, Italy). She was president and founding member of the Associazione Laban/Bartenieff Italia (Association for Laban/Bartenieff studies in Italy), offering a course to become a Certified Movement Analyst with a diploma from LIMS, New York.
Consagra began her career with Il Teatro del Sole, a theater company dedicated toyounger audiences. The work was group directed and evolved through improvisation.The theater pieces were performed through out Europe and at important festivals,including the Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Festival of Graz (Austria), Festival of Nancy (France).
She was part of the ReCherChez performance study group in New York ( USA), lead by Ruth Maleczech and Lee Bruer of the Mabou Mines ( avant-garde theater company). Consagra has worked extensively with the Italian comedian Paolo Rossi, signing the ideation and codirecting his plays. She collaborated with the well-known Italian director, Luca Ronconi, in various productions, focusing on creating movement for the actors.
Two master's theses have been written on Maria Consagra’s pedagogical work. Their titles are: Percorsi e metodologie del Pedagogia Teatrale: Il lavoro di Maria Consagra, Daniele Milani: Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (Aquila, Italy). Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Relatore Prof. F.Taviani. Per una pedagogia teatrale al lavoro con Maria Consagra, Anna Zanetti. Università degli Studi Bergamo. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Relatrice Anna Maria Testaverde.
Consagra’s pedagogical work focuses on guiding student actors and professionals to full awareness of their bodies, whether they are working toward a primarily physical theater or in twentieth-century plays. As Laban and Grotowski teach, the body and the mind are one.
Consagra creates performances with the students at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and at the Scuola d' Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi. The work is very physical, and the physicality is completely integrated with the imagination. Some performances are created by giving student actors themes on which to improvise; others are created from myths; others still begin with the creation of a mask, a physical mask each student creates for him/her self. Each mask comes to life as a “mask-character.” The relationships between the mask-characters and the themes around which they play create the performance.
