Prefazione

Authors

• Matteo Casari Alma Mater Studiorum - Università degli Studi di Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-8067

  Matteo Casari is Associate Professor at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna where he teaches Theatres in Asia, Performative Cultures of Asia, and Performing Arts Management and Economycs. His research is mainly devoted to Asian theatrical traditions, particularly from Japan where he conducted some fieldworks. He is also an expert of Italian folk traditions. He is the author of various publications including monographs, edited volumes and essays. Among the most recent: Mishima Yukio e l’atto performativo. Drammaturgie di un artista (2023, with Giovanni Azzaroni and Katja Centonze) Un mito che danza, un teatro che si fa storia: il nō (2022); Matsuyama nō. Un nō differente (2021); Nō Theater and Cultural Diplomacy (2018); Raccontare la Grecìa. Una ricerca antropologica nelle memorie del Salento Griko (2015, with Giovanni Azzaroni); La Settimana Santa di Castelsardo (2008).

• Matteo Paoletti Alma Mater Studiorum - Università degli Studi di Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0795-3894

  Matteo Paoletti (1984) is a senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna since 2021. He develops his research in the field of Economics and organisation of theatre, Opera staging and relationships between theatre and cultural diplomacy. He is PI of Performing arts, economics, and cultural policies. New interpretative paradigms between aesthetics and social sciences (PRIN 2022), Theatre and music between two shores of the Mediterranean: cultural connections between Italy and Tunisia (Global South 2022) and Migrantheatre/Migration perspectives in Europe (UNA Europa 2021). He is an Expert Advisor of the European Commission for the evaluation of the projects of the Cultural Cooperation Programme. He was a Cultural attaché at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He oversaw the 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Italian National Commission for UNESCO.

• Naohiko Umewaka

  Umewaka Naohiko is shite-kata of the Kanze school, he received his Ph.D. From the Royal Holloway University of London. After his first theatrical experience with nō Shōjō at the age of 3, he appeared on many national and international stages performing both classics and new texts. He has also worked on new nō works such as Ondine (オンデイーヌ), for which he was the director, and Ryūgū Kozō, for which he was the author of the texts and performer. He published the volume An Invitation to Noh (Iwanami Publishers).