Del arte a la acción: Perspectiva del performance en primera infancia, un lenguaje del cuerpo para crear

Abstract

Arts during early childhood are essential for the integral growth of boys and girls, since they unavoidably evoke participation, freedom and experience. This research aims to show the pedagogical ways in which art, present in its different forms inside the classroom during early childhood, potentializes the creative action of boys and girls from a perspective that manages to explore and live art not as a hand-craft technique resulting on a final product, but as an experience. The research " For art to action: perspective on performance in early childhood,a body language meant to create" tackles artistic procedures and reports both interpretations and experiencies on this practices. This research assumes early-childhood performance as a device of the intermediary action between corporeality (interaction action-game) and matter (plastic language), in order to give an essential role to both verbal and nonverbal language produced by children. This experience allows the proposal of a transformation inside the classroom through performance, in which the installations emerge from uncertainty, surprise, innovation of spaces, creation, exploration and the spontaneous participation without coercion in order to permit free expression of collective and individual language. This process makes the interest for research during childhood visible; aspects such as divergent thinking, artistic experience, games, corporeality and intersubjective encounter dynamize every experience in which the most important thing, as research teachers, is being part of that world that invites to relate with the feelings of childhood. In order to proceed with this project, an art-based research methodology that responds to qualitative procedures was used. This allowed to record the experiences highlighting the types of language and feelings of children. This research worked under critically reflective practices for contributing to an educational transformation.