Background
Marco De Marinis was born on April 6 in 1949, in Colonnella, Teramo, Italy. He is a son of Luigi and Anna (Marrone) de Marinis.
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The book... succeeds at refining elements in the problem that semiotics and theater represent to and for one another." ―Choice The Semiotics of Performance surprisingly retains its revelatory freshness, and actually opens up areas of reseach that could very well supply new incentives for further probing into what semiotics can offer to the study of theatre." ―Theatre Survey
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1993
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Etienne Decroux and His Theatre Laboratory is based on the long-awaited translation of Marco De Marinis' monumental work on mime in the twentieth century: Mimo e teatro nel Novecento (1993). Now revised and updated, the volume focuses specifically on the seminal role played by French mime artist and pedagogue Etienne Decroux. Mime is a theatrical form of ancient tradition. In the nineteenth century, it saw both apogee and crisis in the west with the realistic and gesticulating 'white pantomime'. In the twentieth century, it underwent a radical overhaul, transforming into an 'abstract' corporeal art that shunned imitation and narrative, and which instead tended towards the plastic, elliptic, allusive, and symbolic transposition of actions and situations. This book is the result of detailed investigations, based on contemporary accounts and obscure or unpublished materials. Through the examination of the creative, pedagogical, and theoretical work of the 'inventor' of the new mime art, Etienne Decroux, De Marinis focuses on the different assumptions underlying the various modes of the problematic presence of mime in the theatre of the twentieth century: from the utopia of a 'pure' theatre, attributed to the sole essence of the actor, to its decline into a closed poetic genre often nostalgically stuck in the past; from mime as a pedagogical tool for the actor to mime as an expressive and virtuosic means in the hands of the director.
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Marco De Marinis was born on April 6 in 1949, in Colonnella, Teramo, Italy. He is a son of Luigi and Anna (Marrone) de Marinis.
De Marinis graduated from University of Bologna with a degree in classical literature in 1971.
De Marinis started his career as a scholar in Degree Program in the Discipline of the Arts, Music, and Performance at University of Bologna in 1972. In 1981 he was promoted to position of a researcher, and in 1992 he became an associate professor. Since 2000, he is a professor of theater there. Marco also worked as an associate professor of theater at University of Macerata from 1988 to 1991.
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2015(The book... succeeds at refining elements in the problem ...)
1993De Marinis married Alessandra Frabetti, a historian on November 26, 1976. They have children Marcella and Martina.