FROM THEATER VILA VELHA TO THE LIVRE UNIVERSITY: a history of education, the body and freedom in the present time
Education, Theater of the Oppressed, Theater, Body and Freedom, Teatro Vila Velha, Universidade Livre de Teatro Vila Velha
This research aims to identify and analyze the possible relationships between the artistic works produced by Teatro Vila Velha in the field of Theater language from its inauguration to the present time, which now, host the Universidade Livre do Teatro Vila Velha, considering the elements: Body, Culture and Freedom relating to the perspective of educate emancipated citizens through an education based on the experience built from the theatrical scene. It also seeks to identify whether there is the development of a protagonism of the student/artist/citizen, through pedagogical praxis, so that they develop critical sense, manual and bodily skills, encouraging practical attitudes in the perspective of a change and the construction of questions qualified of social and political paradigms that move beyond the scene to develop emancipation, freedom. These possible relationships will be carried out in interviews with actors and directors who worked in the artistic production and formation field of Teatro Vila Velha and the Universidade Livre de Teatro Vila Velha and who, consequently, contributed to the ideological construction of the space, based on Oral History and some information collected from documents from the Theater. The complexity of the universe of knowledge that involves Teatro Vila Velha, not only as an artistic space, but also as an educational place, is something that involves the wishes of the founders in the way they understand art and how they would like to present it, the political and cultural environment of the last few 60 years, and, above all, the construction of its images, which is seen as a space with its own identity, avant-garde and disruptive production.