TITLE:
Education to Theatricality and the Human Relationship: The Creative Movement
AUTHORS:
Gaetano Oliva
KEYWORDS:
Education to Theatricality, Laboratory, Expressive Arts, Creative Movement and Neurosciences, Communicate with the Body
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.10 No.10,
October
14,
2019
ABSTRACT: Education to Theatricality is an art that develops the human thought
through both the performative, expressive
and literary arts and the human sciences—in
particular pedagogy, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and anthropology.
Education for Theatricality aims to educate people through the expressive arts,
and at the same time to educate them to the expressive arts by developing the
personal creativity and expressiveness of every person. The article
investigates the relationship between creative movement and body language for
the development of the person’s relationship and communication skills. The
study presents both a theoretical and a small practical reflection; the
approach of the present work bases its scientific considerations in the field
of Education to Theatricality. The process of knowing oneself and developing
relational skills takes place in the expressive laboratory. In this physical
and mental space, the person acts with his body; first of all, it reappropriates or
discovers its own natural condition (or pre-expressive). Subsequently, he develops his
language and his creativity. Furthermore, the body is a place of emotions;
learning to control gestures, movements, voice, facial expression (all the
physical elements with which we come into contact with others) means to become
extremely competent in terms of communication. This belief is
corroborated by recent neuroscience studies; in fact, they are
investigating the correspondence between body action and brain response. When
one person observes the movement of another, the same neurons of the person who
is moving are activated in his brain; this process occurs even if the observer
does not actually physically perform the movement. Within this perspective, the laboratory of
expressive arts can really be a useful tool not only to promote artistry but
also and above all to build a new educational and didactic methodology to
develop “the human relationship”. The means and instrument of this methodology
are the bodies; a real body, daily, normal. The body that everyone has and that
can become the means for a new humanism.