Documentare, formalizzare e archiviare la prassi dell’immateriale. L'importanza del processo creativo

The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) includes performing arts among the domains in which intangible cultural heritage is manifested. But at a previous level, it considers part of the intangible cultural heritage also practices, knowledge and skills that communities, individuals or groups recognize as part of their cultural heritage. The article analyzes the concept of the creative process as a practice through which theatre groups share knowledge and skills, and identifies the possible documentary sources that contain traces of artistic creation. Finally, the intervention wants to understand if existing formalization procedures can allow the archiving of the creative process, in order to preserve it and make it accessible for groups and scholars communities that consider it part of their cultural heritage.