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The purpose of this paper is to analyse how dubbing can be used to enhance social skills for individuals with psychosocial disabilities. It is a critical account of the Erasmus+ programme DUB-IN, an innovative educational programme which aims to develop the social and interpersonal skills that are challenging for such individuals. The paper will be divided in three parts: the first will be a short history of dubbing – as a distinct, digital art form; the second will review the power of the voice and the particularities it entails in relation to people with psychosocial disabilities; and, the third, will explore, in depth, the ways that dubbing could be a tool that will help people with psychosocial disabilities acquire social skills, but also how such a knowledge could be useful for other groups, namely young people, immigrants and so on.
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Michaela Antoniou
Michaela Antoniou is a director, actor, translator and author who works in Greece and abroad. She completed her MA and her PhD thesis at Goldsmiths, University of London both with scholarship from IKY. She is Laboratory Teaching Staff and teaches acting and directing –theory and praxis– at the Theatre Studies Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests focus on the theory and praxis of acting and directing in the 20th and 21st centuries in the Greek and international theatre field. She is co-editor with Julian Jones of the book Stanislavsky and Emotion (Routledge). Her book Centrifugal Narrations: Acting and Directing in Ancient Greek Drama in 20th and 21st Century will be published in October 2024 by Papazisis Publications. She is Associate Editor of the Journal Stanislavski Studies (Taylor & Francis).
