COLOMBINA (La SERVETTA) | Commedia dell'Arte with Dr. Chiara D'Anna (Session 4) | Practice

[0:08]Let's see now the female servant. This basically is the counterpart of Arlecchino. It's called la Servetta, the maid, and she has very similar quality. So I'd like you to connect again with the a bit of a lower center of gravity. She's a working class lady, she works hard in the house and she's really energetic. She's quite bright, much more intelligent as I said of the Arlecchino. And also what I'd like you to connect with is the idea of the agile and playful and full of energy. She's full of energy like Arlecchino. And also the lightness of the cat in this specific one for uh for the Servetta, the maid, is a bit um it's a bit softer the movement, a bit more fluid instead of the staccato of Arlecchino. And we see a lot of that in movement in the hips and the shoulders. Here the upper part of the body moves much more and that immediately brings more femininity in the movement of of the Servetta. And here we got the very active if you don't if you remember Arlecchino, the very active feet of Arlecchino. And here we go. But here she can use this in very clever way actually to attract the male of the house, everybody, Arlecchino, Zanni, Pantalone, the master of the house, the Capitano. What I like you to connect with is also certain a sense of pride, very, very confident, confident in herself, a beauty and a wise or streetwise if you want cleverness that she's got there. Let's see a bit the step. step, step, step. If you remember, very similar to what it is for Arlecchino. step. And then we have also the little step and little step. So, if you remember we move to the right, right leg and left on the front. And left leg and change and right, left, left, right, right, left, left, right. Okay, and one and two. And move a bit your hips and the upper part of the body, kicking. If you remember, it's right, right foot and we kick with the left. Left foot, we kick with the right. And one and kick. Kick and kick. Kick, kick, kick. And another step that you can explore with our Servetta, called, I in Italian as 'A Stantuffo'. So you point one foot is standing on the tiptoes while the other foot is quite flat. And we found a little movement like this. and with this actually you can move quite fast. And we get with our Servetta and look and we go one, two, three, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop. Finally, another possibility for the step of the Servetta is exactly the same step that we had for Arlecchino. That is the one that is in two steps. So a step, kick, kick, kick. Step, kick, kick. Step, kick, kick. Step, kick, kick. But here, while in Arlecchino, I always connect Arlecchino with a certain element of certain woodiness about him, and really sharp and really almost masculine in a sense in his physicality. So it would be something like this. Or this. With her, bring a bit of lightness and a bit of movement in the upper part of the body. Immediately that brings something different, something quite feminine, more delicate. Let's see her in space. Let's see how we go and hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop. And a bit of the Servetta. Here we go. I'm here. Yes, doing everything. And if we go and I'm waiting for my Arlecchino.