Banca de DEFESA: JANDIARA SODRE BARRETO

THE IMAGE THEATER AS A TOOL IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE DEAF AND HEARING IN A CREATIVE-VIRTUAL PROCESS

Inclusion. Deaf and Listening. Image Theater. Virtuality

Assuming the inclusion of the Deaf community as one of the bases of this research, we seek to identify effective situations of social oppression in this minority, using creative tools to transform this reality. This research is an attempt to raise awareness about the importance of developing relationships between Deaf and hearing people, in an inclusive process, recognizing the distance between them. The objective is to reduce the communication barrier between these two cultures, using Theater-Image as an aid tool within a virtual creative process, in a relationship of exchange, thus recognizing the cultural distance between them, modifying this reality. I use action research as a method, with adaptation to virtual practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic, having as a stimulus the Theater-Image, a technique located in the trunk of the Tree of the Theater of the Oppressed, chosen by Augusto Boal as a metaphor to synthesize and represent the method and Aesthetics of the Oppressed. As inspiration: their own personal luggage, in a work through sensitivity, recognizing and improving, in this path, individual and collective relationships. Since theater is an effective political tool, I seek to expand the notion of belonging and understanding of the existence of two cultures in the same country, in order to make the participants of the creative process aware and recognize themselves as agents of change.