{"id":1546,"date":"2021-10-11T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/?page_id=1546"},"modified":"2023-10-02T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T01:23:09","slug":"chiara-durazzini","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/chiara-durazzini\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Durazzini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container chiara-durazzini autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-2523\" data-slideshow-name=\"chiara-durazzini\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-2523\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-2523_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2021\/10\/ChiaraMasksbw-Pazzi-Lazzi-Troupe-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-2523_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2021\/10\/Arl2-Pazzi-Lazzi-Troupe-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-2523_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2021\/10\/PLTrio-Pazzi-Lazzi-Troupe-636x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-2523_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/womenandmasks\/files\/2021\/10\/Pin.CatFox-Pazzi-Lazzi-Troupe-scaled-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-2523\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Chiara Durazzini<\/strong> is a native of Florence, Italy, and moved to Boston in 2000. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Commedia dell\u2019Arte troupe \u201cPazzi Lazzi\u201d for which she performs, teaches, and directs, and of the amateur Italian theatre company \u201cAll\u2019italiana \u2013 Boston Italian Theatre Company\u201d which involves expats and Italian speakers in staging shows by Italian playwrights. With these two companies, Chiara has acted and directed original shows like \u201cAria di Commedia\u201d (2014), \u201cIsabella Unmasked \u2013 The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman\u201d (2017), and \u201cPinocchio \u2013 A Commedia Adventure\u201d (2020), and renowned plays like \u201cQuesti Fantasmi\u201d (2018) by Eduardo De Filippo and \u201cLa Giara\u201d (2019) by Luigi Pirandello. She has also acted for several local Boston companies: some of her favorite roles include Tinker Bell in \u201cPan\u201d (Company One) and the Virgin Mary in \u201cAnger Box\u201d (Apollinaire Theatre Company). A dance and physical theater lover and practitioner, she has trained with the Commedia dell\u2019Arte master Claudia Contin Arlecchino, with Tina Nielsen of Odin Teatret, and with Prof. Arnaldo Picchi. She obtained her Master\u2019s in Art, Music, and Theatre from the University of Bologna, Italy. She frequently collaborates with mask-makers Eric Bornstein of Behind the Mask Studio (Somerville, MA) and Alice Bertolini of Specialit\u00e0 Veneziane (Venice, Italy).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pazzi Lazzi Troupe: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pazzilazzitroupe.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.pazzilazzitroupe.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind the Masks Studio: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthemask.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.behindthemask.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specialit\u00e0 Veneziane: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/specialitaveneziane.it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/specialitaveneziane.it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firenze of Papier Mach\u00e8: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firenzeofpapiermache.it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.firenzeofpapiermache.it\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claudia Contin Arlecchino: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portoarlecchino.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.portoarlecchino.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multi-instrumentalist Dan Meyers: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/danmeyersmusic.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/danmeyersmusic.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiara Durazzini is a native of Florence, Italy, and moved to Boston in 2000. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Commedia dell\u2019Arte troupe \u201cPazzi Lazzi\u201d for which she performs, teaches, and directs, and of the amateur Italian theatre company \u201cAll\u2019italiana \u2013 Boston Italian Theatre Company\u201d which involves expats and Italian speakers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15090,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":62,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}