This session is an introduction to the famous pair of Young Lovers of Commedia dell'Arte: gli Innamorati or Amorosi.

This video is the last of the series and covers the following topics:

• This video covers the following topics:
• Re-cap of the Masks (characters) explored so far
• Difference between Masked Characters and Unmasked Characters: grotesque vs highly stylized
• Character's status/social class: aristocracy.
• Physical qualities: light, delicate and elegant.
• Clocking with masks: 'Colpo di Maschera technique still valid with unmasked characters
• Driving force of the mask
• Lovers' posture and physical transformation
• Lovers' ballet-inspired physical vocabulary
• Lovers' animalistic qualities
• Lovers' walks: flamingo walk, twisted walk, and swing walk.
• Lovers' voice.
• Female Lover's improvisation.

There are many more masks but they still fall into the categories presented here: the Servants, The Masters, the Outsides, and the Youth. There are indeed many more Servants (for example Pulcinella or Brighella), more Masters (Pantalone is a specific type of Magnifico: il Magnifico from Venice), more Doctors, and many types of Captains, as well as older Lovers.