This workshop gives participants the opportunity to start learning about Commedia dell'arte, a theatrical art of Italian origin that, according to many scholars, initiated what we now call professional theatre.

Completely covering the face, this expressionless mask allows the body to speak. By questioning the body, the neutral mask invites us to explore and expand the potential of body language.

"The king's jesters made the court laugh while spitting out the truths of those days" -Francine Côté