ART IN ITS MYSTERY CONFUSES THE DIFFERENT BEAUTIES TOGETHER. (TOSCA, G. PUCCINI) DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, BODIES. THE EXPERIENCE OF OPERAH.

Abstract

The OperaH project, active for over a decade within the Pergolesi Spontini Foundation in Jesi, represents a virtuous co-construction between the foundation, local authorities, health, school and private social sector. Originally created to offer the cultural experience of theatre and opera to new audiences, it gradually takes on inclusive existential connotations, supported by a network logic that deserves to be told as a good practice.

This work, part of a broader research on the role of inclusive processes in adulthood, aims to investigate the theatre, in its configuration as a territory of inclusion, the founding place of the possible experience and self-narration starting from the body, and in its contribution to the making of identity and support to subjective self-determination of the person with disabilities within a collective path.

The pedagogical reflection highlights the great potential that the theatre conveys, soliciting in the actors and the public, inside and outside the stage, the constant possibility of questioning their own desires, needs, abilities in meeting others. The construction of meaning in the regulation of the theatrical experience is analysed through qualitatively driven narrative mapping (Morse & Cheek, 2014).