Vygotsky and the actor’s art: for a psychology of the actor-performer

Abstract

Abstract Considering that the performing artist’s creative act seeks to make another being present through their personal memory and the evocation of living experiences and feelings, this article reflects on the direct and objective relation of the actor’s creative work with life. Accordingly, we address here manifestations that intend presentification more than representation, a practice that arose later, but which is associated with Vygotsky’s writings on the art of acting. Thus, we seek to consider the term perezhivanie as a manifestation in a hybrid zone of intersection of life with artistic creation and as a consequence (or source) of the art exercised by the one that is now called actor-performer.