We are very glad to show the abstract of Vanda's latest paper, written with the taiwansese actress, Wenting Yang:

The Seagull Chick - actor in the neuroscience era

by Vanda Monaco and Wenting Yang.
Abstract

Two actresses face questions  raised by some neuroscience discoveries.
1) The starting point to work with a text  is not longer psychological.
2) Actors’ need of reward increases as how a seagull chick’s reaction increases by watching “the stick with read dots” (Ramachandran and Hirstein:1999).
3) The words of Shakespeare, Rimbaud and Craig Lucas are made into flesh for and on the stage (Linklater 2006, 2009).
Further work will be on the relationship with the audience under a mirror neurons perspective (Rizzolatti, Corrado 2008).

EMTH 2009: Neurosciences and Freeing the Natural Voice

In 2009 Vanda writes down her ideas about Emotion Theater (from now EMTH). Discussing them with the taiwanese actress Wenting Yang, Vanda seeks a way to connect the theater to the emotions we experience today; for example, the emotions of an astronaut, of patients who are undergoing some major hi-tech medical interventions unthinkable thirty years ago or of people from some extraordinary stories of our time.

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