Καλλιτεχνική έρευνα: μέθοδοι και κατευθύνσεις, ΙΙΙ: Σωματική μεθοδολογία στην κινησιολογική πράξη των ηθοποιών

*This introductory note is a translation of the brief article originally published in Greek for Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol.12. Using as a point of departure an indicative illustration on key steps of the practice, this brief article introduces the reader to the methodology of Somatic Acting Process®. It aims at outlining a revisited perspective on somaticity through movement-based actor training and somatics. The somatic methodology at the core of this note brings into dynamic interrelation actor movement education, the rehearsal process and academic research. More specifically, it emerges from the critical integration of the embodiment process in Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Robin Nelson’s Practice-as-Research (PaR) academic model. The way in which this new methodology reviews logocentric elements in theatre praxis and proposes the perception of each actor’s “somatic logos”, is offered as an experiential invitation to each reader through the basic steps of the process.