El entrenamiento teatral como herramienta de autoconocimiento

Abstract

This document stems from an interest in the contribution of theater as a tool for social action focused on self-knowledge and individual development. From this, a motivational path is generated toward the practice of acting training with people with intellectual, physical, and cognitive disabilities belonging to the Sin Límites Foundation in Bogotá. In this sense, I begin by exploring and selecting combined theoretical and practical approaches used in theater training. These, in addition to contributing to acting training and the creative process with the foundation's participants, support the usefulness of theater practice as a tool for personal recognition and development. The three references I used to carry out the process with the foundation's participants, orienting it toward personal work through a space for theatrical exploration, are: 1. The principles of the theater of the oppressed regarding the specific use of theater as a tool to seek solutions to different social problems based on work with oppressed classes in which the spectator becomes a spectator-actor1; 2. The theoretical foundation of the Feldenkrais method regarding self-awareness through movement for personal development; 3. The conceptual basis of the Alexander technique towards the search for conscious movement and improved posture. The process in question has the specific purpose of generating a strategy to improve the quality of life of the foundation's participants, based on the exploration and inquiry of their personal capacities. This, through exercises and activities strategically designed for their particular conditions in order to analyze the impact that an acting training process with a different approach to creation can have on this specific population.