Performing agency: Body learning, Forum theatre and interactivity as democratic strategy

Yarrow, Ralph

doi:10.1386/safm.4.2.211_1

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“…Theatre spaces achieve access to these registers via their innate practices. Through habitual forms and actions that adhere to expected cultural conducts of subordination, the body loses its physical intelligence and only parts of it are used for particular social functions (Yarrow 2012). Boal (1995) refers to this as 'the mechanisation of body', and his response is to employ theatre exercises where the body can bend and extend, as well as execute different movements in the space.…”

Section: Racialised and Gendered Bodies In Social And Knowledge Encou...mentioning

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A generative refusal: body inclusive methods with racialized women in knowledge creation

Kaptani

2023

Fennia

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This paper illustrates the moving body’s direct engagement with discursive and material spaces, as well encounters in theatre methods used in knowledge production. Body-inclusive theatre-based methods aim to address two paradoxes. First, the racialised and gendered body in feminist epistemology is often theorised without the body being actively engaged in the methods that produce its theorisations, and therefore neither are body-inclusive methodological practices. This has an impact on feminist epistemologies as corporeal modes of existence, such as lived experiences, self-definition and agency require the presence of and an engagement with the moving body. This knowledge project offers another way of being in knowledge acquisition. It recognises that research often refuses the agency and personhood of the ‘researched’, and it also sets limits on epistemologies (Tuck 2009; Ng 2018; Salami 2020). There is an epistemological refusal taking place in this theatre practice: through the enactment of lived experiences with an aim to transform them; a non-binary way of making meaning of them; creativity as a process of becoming anew; and activating the agency driven human body. In this practice, racialised and migrant women explore their subjugated bodies through kinaesthetic means, namely with, from, and through their bodies. The co-creators explored the playfulness and creativity of their bodies through theatre games, living images and the creation of Physical and Forum Theatre performances (Boal 1992/2005; Lecoq et al. 2000) linked with the experience of having a female, racialised, migrant and othered body.

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Section: Racialised and Gendered Bodies In Social And Knowledge Encou...mentioning

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A generative refusal: body inclusive methods with racialized women in knowledge creation

Kaptani

2023

Fennia

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“…Se plantearon, por ejemplo, ejercicios por parejas donde una de las personas se movía y la otra miraba, buscando distintas perspectivas desde las que observar el movimiento del compañero, trabajando así los aspectos comunicacionales de la danza (Pethybridge, 2014). El contacto con el otro superaba la aproximación racional, rompiendo dicotomías entre cuerpo y mente (Yarrow, 2012) y facilitando una aproximación psicofísica holística, que permitió generar vínculos de simpatía y compañerismo entre personas aparentemente muy distintas.…”

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“He ganado el balón de oro como Messi”: estudio sobre una experiencia de danza inclusiva con personas sin hogar

Guijarro

2023

Arteterapia

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Este trabajo expone una investigación centrada en un taller de formación de danza inclusiva en una ciudad española, a través de las perspectivas de las personas sin hogar participantes. Se realizó un estudio de caso con enfoque etnográfico haciendo uso de la observación participante y entrevistas en profundidad como instrumentos de recogida de datos. Para el análisis e interpretación de los datos se siguió el procedimiento de análisis temático interpretativo. A través de los relatos de las personas sin hogar, este artículo analiza cómo el espacio del taller supuso un “refugio” de unas circunstancias de vida hostiles y un lugar donde mostrarse a través de sus cualidades positivas y sus capacidades. También se discute cómo la experiencia pudo acabar reproduciendo las mismas estructuras discriminatorias que sufren las personas sin hogar en otros contextos, y la manera en que la riqueza de la experiencia formativa pudo verse socavada por su dependencia de los objetivos del banco que financiaba el evento. Esta investigación expone, por tanto, los logros de la experiencia a partir de la voz de sus participantes, pero también profundiza en los dilemas y contradicciones que se plantean en el marco de esta experiencia de acción artística inclusiva.

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Applied Theatre as a strategy for intervention with disadvantaged groups: a qualitative synthesis

Guijarro

Pérez-García

González

2021

Educational Research

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Performing agency: Body learning, Forum theatre and interactivity as democratic strategy

Cited by 6 publications

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A generative refusal: body inclusive methods with racialized women in knowledge creation

A generative refusal: body inclusive methods with racialized women in knowledge creation

“He ganado el balón de oro como Messi”: estudio sobre una experiencia de danza inclusiva con personas sin hogar

Applied Theatre as a strategy for intervention with disadvantaged groups: a qualitative synthesis

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