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	Grammelot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grammelot is a term for a style of language in satirical theatre, a gibberish with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements, used in association with pantomime and mimicry.
		The format dates back to the 16th century Commedia dell'arte, and some claim Grammelot to be a specific universal language (akin to Lingua franca) devised to give performers safety from censorship and appeal whatever the dialect of the audience.
		In his Nobel speech, Fo said that his inspiration was the 16th century Italian playwright Ruzzante (Angelo Beolco), who invented a similar language based on Italian dialects, Latin, Spanish, German and onomatopoeic sounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammelot (283 words)

	Alexander King of Jesters - Grammelot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The show is performed in Grammelot; a universal gibberish language first developed by traveling jesters, troubadours and minstrels during medieval times.
		Grammelot could cut through the many language barriers that existed back in the days of isolated villages and hamlets.
		A second use of Grammelot was to evade censorship.
	www.alexthejester.com /grammelot.html (201 words)

	R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		I know that "grammelot," for instance, directly addresses both of these issues.
		"Grammelot" was written when I was working as a literary manager for a regional theater and was thinking a lot about dramatic literary theory and dramaturgy.
		As much as theater, however, "Grammelot" for me asks questions about the nature of narrative and story, an interrogation which continued in more specific terms in the "Geographies" series in True News.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2003fall/watson.shtml (2237 words)

	Mario Pirovano - Comic Mystery Play
		“The Cana Wedding”, “Dedalus and Icarus” “The Grammelot of Scapin” and “The Grammelot of the English Advocate” are some of the other texts from “Mistero Buffo” which Pirovano has had occasion to perform.
		Together with the players of the “Commedia dell’Arte”;, known as “comici dell’arte”, they were the inventors of the “grammelot”, a term of French origin coined by the buffoons, clowns and jesters.
		These players made full use of grammelot gesturing, constrained by their situation as travellers in the midst of people speaking various languages, or by censorship laws which prohibited them from using language: they could at most mime or utter meaningless sounds.
	www.mariopirovano.it /en/mistero.html (663 words)

	Alexander, King of Jesters
		This offbeat performance includes Renaissance water spitting, fertility dances, the nose flute serenade, pogo stick 'boing-ing', clown love, jingle bell juggling, twisted sticks of the forest, three flutes played simultaneously, and other routines inspired by the rich tradition of the fool.
		During the act, he speaks a magical sounding gibberish language called Grammelot that originated in Europe centuries ago.
		In those times nearly every village had its own dialect, and traveling jesters and troubadours needed to find a way to bridge the language gap.
	www.e-orderhere.com /COAIConvention/calex.htm (205 words)

	[e-drive][WORKSHOP DIGEST FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 1] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Part 2: `Grammelot´ - from the Commedia dell´Arte to rap: breaking the rules of language, speaking without words.
		Grammelot re-invented by Dario Fo and its present-day relevance.
		Part 3: The birth and evolution of a work by Dario Fo: how the idea for a subject is born, how a canvas is built up, what is meant by `improvising´, the relationship with the audience, the action in relation to present-day events.
	mercury.web.ca /archives/caea-l/2004-October/001672.html (940 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: Tricks of the Trade
		To achieve this, they need great skill and a massive range of learned instincts and lines that can be thrown in as needed by their characters and the situation, almost like some mix and match children's game.
		Fo also educates us in the arcane art of Grammelot, the use of real and invented words in a language which the purveyor need not understand.
		This trick, popularised in United Kingdom by Professor Stanley Unwin, is apparently particularly effective as an extra string to the bows of physical artists.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /articles/250606.htm (595 words)

	Nobel literature award stuns Vatican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It has its stylistic roots in the strolling players and minstrels of the Middle Ages.
		But it was also a timely satirical blast at religion and politics, delivered in Grammelot, a kind of double-speak masquerading as a language, wholly invented by Fo.
		Fo, a longtime member of the Communist Party, and his wife, writer and actress Franca Rame, were refused entry into the United States in the 1980s under longstanding laws denying visas to people who took part in antigovernment activities or belonged to the Communist Party.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/10/10/nobel-lit.2-0.html (768 words)

	Dario Fo - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most original work from the 1960s is Mistero buffo (1969), a research on the origins of popular culture.
		Mixing medieval texts with dialectal forms and contemporary issues, Fo creates the so called Grammelot, a stupefying language of archaic reminiscences integrated by the expressivity of the actor.
		In 1969 Fo started the Collettivo Teatrale La Comune and in 1974 occupies Palazzina Liberty in Milano, the center of political theatre and alternative information.
	www.changeperformingarts.it /Fo/fo.html (355 words)

	CNN - The 1997 Nobel Prizes
		In the early 1970s, Fo and Rame left the Communist Party, finding it as oppressive as the institutions Fo satirized.
		Fo's theatrical technique for which he was cited by the Academy combines slapstick, mime and "grammelot," a type of gibberish contrived to sound like a comical form of real language.
		The iconoclastic playwright has been compared to everyone from medieval court jesters to the American comedian Sid Caesar.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1997/nobel.prize/stories/fo.profile (697 words)

	Cuzin Richard Entertainment Associates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This distinctive character keeps his audience laughing at a non-stop stream of surprises.
		Connecting all these escapades is a wild sounding gibberish language called Grammelot.
		The humor is universal and has been his ticket to international comedy festivals in Quebec and France and frequent tours of Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan.
	www.cuzinrichard.com /pages/alex_the_jester.htm (133 words)

	nightswimming
		I also urge you to read Comedians – but don’t even think about doing it without me.
		Reprinted with permission from Grammelot 1.3 (Summer 2002), a theatre journal published by Soraya Peerbaye.
		Grammelot is available at the Theatre Centre, at Canadia dell'Arte and at Book City on Bloor St. West, Toronto.
	www.interlog.com /~bquirt/ideas_hoops.html (945 words)

	The Berkshire Museum
		Alexander entertains the audience with Renaissance water spitting, triple flute playing, and other comic antics.
		He speaks in “Grammelot,” a universal language developed by traveling jesters and troubadours in medieval times.
		Alexander has performed at international comedy festivals and venues in Quebec, France, Australia (Australia), New Zealand, and Singapore, and Japan.
	www.berkshiremuseum.org /new/disp.php?20051111.pr (433 words)

	Young Australia Workshop - GLEN LEITCH MANAGEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Students will be introduced to four of the principle characters from the Commedia dell’ Arte.
		Dennis demonstrates “Grammelot,” the art of speaking gibberish used by the performers when they travelled abroad.
		The show also features a classic Commedia skit from the puppetry branch of the tradition still to be found in Italy today.Volunteers from the audience will be given the opportunity to come up on stage to don a mask and have a go at characterisation under Dennis’direction.
	www.youngaus.com.au /mimemask/dennis_murphy_commedia.html (614 words)

	LookSmart's Furl - View Item - Language Log: Gibberish by any other name
		Rated 3 in language by yarondav on Mar 16, 2005 at 13:22:12 GMT.
		Many jesters and fools spoke a gibberish language called Grammelot that was first described over 500 years ago.
		Although Grammelot could not say everything quite as clearly as a real language, it could express general ideas and it engaged people's imaginations.
	www.furl.net /item.jsp?id=2316332 (157 words)

	Language Log: Simlish as 21st-century Grammelot?
		The things I've read about Grammelot, and the bits of it that I've heard, remind me of Simlish, the fake language used in The Sims and its follow-on games.
		In case you're not a Sims person, here's a bit of Simlish motherese and some Simlish food enjoyment, just to give you the flavor of this "language".
		Posted by Mark Liberman at March 11, 2005 01:35 PM
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001976.html (582 words)

	Documento senza nome
		The story of The Wizard of Oz pictures two distinct realities: an everyday reality (the background) and an imaginary one.
		The ordinary language is used for the description of the former reality (it will be a non-structured language like the one James Joyce used in "Finnegans Wake"), whereas the Grammelot will serve the purpose of describing the latter reality.
		As for open-air performances, the theatrical style is characterized by the intention to modify the usual code of conduct by amplifying or depressing actions, rhythms, objects, etc.; by enlarging them in a spatial sense, as well as by acting on the extremes of possibilities with regard to rhythm (the maximum speed or the minimum slowness).
	www.teatrocontinuo.it /grammeloten.html (767 words)

	lamonitor.com: The Online News Source for Los Alamos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Plano has been a featured recitalist at the internationally acclaimed 57th Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Poland, the Williamstown International Piano Festival and the Savannah Music Festival, in the U.S., and at festivals in Spain and Italy.
		His friendly and outgoing personality has made him a favorite guest on a number of radio stations and shows, including NPR's Performance Today, WNYC in New York City, WGBH's Classics in the Morning in Boston, and RadioRai 3 Grammelot in Italy.
		As a teacher, he has given public master classes at Kent State University, Augusta State University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, at the Alberta Conservatory in Edmonton, Canada, at the Conservatory of San Juan in Puerto Rico, and in all the major cities of Schlewsig-Holstein, Germany.
	www.lamonitor.com /articles/2006/04/24/features/features01.txt (668 words)

	Articles, TOUT-FAIT: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal
		Here syllables have a value exclusively because of their combinatory grammar, but they haven't any overall semantic reference; there isn't any pedagogical a sentence construction, any figures of speech (read, as I believe: idiomatic form).
		The grammatical rules for the syllabic rearrangement are abridged in the following simple (recursive) grammar that can generate Duchamp's wordplay (and infinitely other non-senses, with the same structure, in a pure French grammelot):
		Using the grammar proposed above, it is easy to verify this property, if one accepts not only non-sense sentences, but also non-sense words.
	www.toutfait.com /issues/volume2/issue_4/articles/giunti/giunti8.html (434 words)

	The Coronation of a Jester
		But it also staked out an implicit literary position, and suggested that by appropriating the stance of the jongleurs, the medieval jesters from whom Fo draws his inspiration, he had discovered a way to renew language, to strip it down to its playful ephemerality.
		The Nobel announcement pointed out that Fo has even invented a language, which he calls Grammelot, in which he often performs, a mishmash of recognizable words, dialect sounds and muttered intonations, something like Sid Caesar's German.
		I began to read Fo, or more accurately, to read several Fos: versions in dialect, Italian versions, British versions and American versions.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/02/01/bookend/bookend.html (1366 words)

	La Folia -- Netherlands Winds and Friends
		At one point Antico conjures Poseidon’s stormy seas; later Beasley joins in to help dispatch Penelope’s suitors.
		We’re also treated to stupendous growling in Grammelot, “the language of the wandering troubadours and storytellers of medieval times,” set over a tarantella.
		A Flemish part-song might be followed by something vaguely Corelli-like; elsewhere there are nods to the recitatives from Bach’s passions.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/covell/covell200506nbe.html (727 words)

	Stanley Park Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alex has a one-of-a kind performance which includes Renaissance water spitting, fertility dances, the nose flute serenade, pogo stick " boing-ing", clown love, jingle bell juggling, twisted sticks of the forest, three flutes played simultaneously, and other routines that will leave audiences guessing and surprised.
		This crazy jester has many wacky stunts and even speaks his own whimsical language called Grammelot.
		Alexander - King of Jesters is an unusual, never before seen show that will keep audiences interested, surprised, and laughing.
	stanleypark.org /friday05.htm (600 words)

	Rufino Clown - Spettacoli
		A fine show, which recalls a medieval minstrel, so eager to communicate as to plunge himself in the role of a ploughman, so that common people better understand him.
		The used approach, typical of minstrels, is the mimicry (body's language), handed down to minstrels by the Greeks and Latins, with some traces of Grammelot.
		Rufus de Ovo is an elegant artisan of fun.
	www.rufinoclown.com /spettacoli.php?lang=eng&sp=rufus_de_ovo (189 words)

	News Releases
		Antonio Venturino, renowned actor and director, will run a Commedia dell’Arte workshop on Sunday 30 January 2005 at The Memorial Hall, Beverley from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
		A master of movement and mime, with his virtuoso physical style, Antonio presents the stunning masks and stock characters of Commedia del Arte, showing that it is possible to communicate effectively over the barriers of language, using a clear and dynamic physical technique, often speaking in gobbledegook or grammelot!
		Antonio was born in Sicily in 1965 and trained first in Rome at Il Circo Vapore - akin to Lecoq in Paris - and later at the world famous Piccolo Teatro in Milan, under Ferruccio Soleri, who remains today the master of commedia.
	www.eastriding.gov.uk /newsflash/archive/05010704562.html (301 words)

	Utah State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He has appeared with orchestras in Italy, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Japan.
		Noted for his warm and outgoing personality, he has been a guest artist for a number of radio programs, including NPR’s Performance Today, WNYC in New York City, WGBH’s “Boston’s Classics” morning show and RadioRai 3 Grammelot in Italy.
		Plano has been a featured guest artist at several international music festivals in recent seasons, including the Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Poland; the Williamstown International Piano Festival and the Savannah Music Festival in the United States; the Encuentro de musica y Academia de Santander, Spain; and the Settimane Musicali in Stresa, Italy.
	www.usu.edu /ust/print.cfm?article=7374 (992 words)

	Nobel Lecture 1997
		Ruzzante, the true father of the Commedia dell'Arte, also constructed a language of his own, a language of and for the theatre, based on a variety of tongues: the dialects of the Po Valley, expressions in Latin, Spanish, even German, all mixed with onomatopoeic sounds of his own invention.
		It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the grammelot.
		Allow me to dedicate a part of this prestigious prize to Ruzzante.
	www.literature-awards.com /nobelprize_winners/dario_fo_nobel_lecture.htm (3326 words)

	Post 2005-04-12t06:26:56Z
		It certainly makes the original seem so lame.
		Grammelot, before now, but, well, as they say "
		Even if you don't play The Sims, the idea of a fake language that is unrecognizable but full of emotion is fascinating.
	www.georgehernandez.com /h/aaBlog/post.asp?ts=2005-04-12t06:26:56Z (8070 words)

	NOW : Culture : Stage Scenes : Aug 16 - 22, 2001
		Or want to offer some of your own?
		Check out Grammelot, a new zine providing a forum for artists, critics and audiences to exchange ideas on theatre and culture.
		Edited by Soraya Peerbaye, the first issue includes thoughts from Canadia dell'Arte's Peter Reitzel -- who also provides the cover design -- Ker Wells, Evalyn Parry, Jane Wells and native playwright, sometime reviewer and NOW contributor Drew Hayden Taylor.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-08-16/stage_scenes.html (332 words)

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