La dimensione attoriale tra modelli di formazione e retaggi della tradizione: prospettive di ricerca

At the beginning of modernity, a need to find a rationale for psychological dynamics underlying the phenomenon of professional acting fueled the well-knoen debate about emotionalism and anti-emotionalism, spanning over the following centuries and extending until our day. The mergence and diffusion of actor training methoda, almost in a parallel way, fostered practices increasingly focusing on the body and presenting physical exercise as a privileged approach to the psychological dimension underpinning a theatrical role. In addition, the success of certain actor training methods in education and therapy, where none of the goals of professional practice is pursued, pointed out their positive psychophysiological effect on individuals and groups. Finally, recent neuroscientific research has highlighted that specific motor expertise can have a significant and selective impact on brain plasticity. On account of this, the actor's dimension may become a research field where, beside the aesthetic and performative, other perscpective could be opened to survey psychophysiological dynamics in human experience.