Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: sonia.bellavia@uniroma1.it
phone: 06-4991-3565
building: Lettere e Filosofia
room: 4

Already a graduate set designer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and after a period of theatrical activity as assistant set and costume designer, she undertook the study of theatre history, graduating with honours from the University of Rome Sapienza and obtaining a PhD at the University of Salerno.
Under the guidance of Prof. Claudio Vicentini, he began to focus his studies on issues concerning actors and acting, the subject of his work as a visiting researcher at the Theaterwissenschaftliche Abteilung of the Universität Wien (under the direction of Prof. Wolfgang Greisenegger) in 2000-2001. The relationship between Italian and German theatre realities became her privileged field of investigation from then on.
Recruited as a researcher in 2007 at the Sapienza, University of Rome (where she is still active as an associate professor of L-ART/05, with qualification to the first bracket, and a member of the Arts and Performing Arts Sciences doctoral board at the University of Rome Sapienza), she teaches for three-year and master's degrees dedicated to the work of the actor and the study of acting techniques in modern and contemporary theatre. Alongside his theoretical training, he constantly organises practical workshops, which he entrusts to professional pedagogues; the last ones have focused on the 'expressive voice', with readings from Orlando Furioso and Metastasio's librettos: Le cinesi and L'isola disabitata.
To the theories and history of acting, Sonia Bellavia has dedicated numerous essays and articles, published in the most renowned journals in the field (including "Acting Archivees Review" and "Il Castello di Elsinore") and several monographs, the latest of which is Vienna e la Duse (1892-1909), published in 2017 by Edizioni Di Pagina, Bari. Her most recent essay is tiled: Max Reinhardt, Carocci 2021.
She is a member of the Rome unit within the PRIN F-ACTOR project Forms of Contemporary Media Professional Acting. Training, Recruitment and Management, Social Discourses in Italy (2000-2020) F-ACTOR [Forms of Contemporary Media Acting. Training, professionalisation, social discourses in Italy (2000-2020)]. She is also currently coordinator of the Rome unit in the PRIN Project entitled: Improvisation-Composition. The double Identity of European Music/
He is also a member of the Scientific Committee for the following publications:
- "Chorégraphie series. Studies and research on dance", LIM - Libreria Musicale Italiana. Series of texts on dance' (Director: Flavia Pappacena, Accademia Nazionale di Danza).
- "Illuminazioni. Magazine of Language, Literature and Communications".
- "Palcoscenici" series, directed by Alessandro Gebbia and Fiorella Gabizon for Rogas Edizioni, Rome.
- "In scena" series, directed by Paola Bertolone for Artemide, Rome.

In 2019 he founded and since then co-directs the series "Teatro. Parola e Spazi", for the publisher Lithos, Rome.