The value of the arts and culture for well-being and health has been authoritatively affirmed by the World Health Organization. Numerous evidences show the contribution that the arts make to the areas of promotion and prevention, as well as management and treatment. In the field of prevention and promotion, the results have shown how the arts can influence the social determinants of health, encourage health‑promoting behaviors, help prevent disease, and support care and assistance. In management and treatment, the arts can help people suffering from mental illnesses, support care for individuals in acute conditions, assist those with neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders, contribute to the treatment of chronic degenerative diseases, and play a role in end‑of‑life care. This book discusses research‑action experiences at the intersection of performing arts and health, closely interconnected with theoretical and methodological reflection and with multiple related experiments in Social Theatre—that is, a notion of performance which, in work with disadvantaged groups and communities, regains a profound ethical and aesthetic meaning. In these experiences, theatricality—which broadly includes forms and languages that use the device of performance—shows that its basic operating principles contain resources particularly suited not only to generate social and educational impacts, but also specific capacities to support and promote the well‑being and health of individuals and communities, and to contribute to the training of social and health professionals within the framework of the medical humanities.
Il valore delle arti e della cultura per il benessere e la salute è stato autorevolmente sancito dall’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità. Numerose sono le evidenze del contributo che le arti portano agli ambiti della promozione e della prevenzione, della gestione e del trattamento. Nell’ambito della prevenzione e promozione, i risultati hanno evidenziato come le arti possono influenzare i determinanti sociali della salute, incoraggiare i comportamenti che promuovono la salute, aiutare a prevenire le malattie e supportare l’assistenza e la cura. Nella gestione e nel trattamento, le arti possono aiutare le persone che soffrono di malattie mentali, sostenere le cure per i soggetti in condizioni acute, sostenere chi soffre di disturbi neuroevolutivi e neurologici, contribuire al trattamento di malattie croniche degenerative e concorrere all’assistenza nel fine vita. Questo libro parla di esperienze di ricercazione all’incontro tra arti performative e salute, fortemente interconnesse con la riflessione teorica e metodologica e con le relative molteplici sperimentazioni sul Teatro Sociale, ovvero su una nozione di performance che nel lavoro con i gruppi svantaggiati e le comunità ritrova un senso alto, insieme etico ed estetico. In queste esperienze la teatralità – che include per esteso le forme e i linguaggi che utilizzano il dispositivo della performance – mostra di avere nei propri principi di funzionamento di base alcune risorse particolarmente adatte a generare non solo impatti sociali ed educativi, ma anche specifiche risorse idonee a sostenere e promuovere il benessere e la salute di individui e di comunità e contribuire alla formazione dei professionisti sociosanitari nell’ottica delle medical humanties.
Pontremoli, A., Ghiglione, A., Fabris, R.M., Zangirolami, V. (2025). PERFORMING ARTS, WELL-BEING E SALUTE DI COMUNITÀ Teatro e danza: una risorsa per il benessere e la salute. Roma : Bulzoni.
PERFORMING ARTS, WELL-BEING E SALUTE DI COMUNITÀ Teatro e danza: una risorsa per il benessere e la salute
Alessandro pontremoli
Co-primo
Membro del Collaboration Group
;Rita Maria Fabris
Co-primo
Membro del Collaboration Group
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2025
Abstract
The value of the arts and culture for well-being and health has been authoritatively affirmed by the World Health Organization. Numerous evidences show the contribution that the arts make to the areas of promotion and prevention, as well as management and treatment. In the field of prevention and promotion, the results have shown how the arts can influence the social determinants of health, encourage health‑promoting behaviors, help prevent disease, and support care and assistance. In management and treatment, the arts can help people suffering from mental illnesses, support care for individuals in acute conditions, assist those with neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders, contribute to the treatment of chronic degenerative diseases, and play a role in end‑of‑life care. This book discusses research‑action experiences at the intersection of performing arts and health, closely interconnected with theoretical and methodological reflection and with multiple related experiments in Social Theatre—that is, a notion of performance which, in work with disadvantaged groups and communities, regains a profound ethical and aesthetic meaning. In these experiences, theatricality—which broadly includes forms and languages that use the device of performance—shows that its basic operating principles contain resources particularly suited not only to generate social and educational impacts, but also specific capacities to support and promote the well‑being and health of individuals and communities, and to contribute to the training of social and health professionals within the framework of the medical humanities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.



