DISSIDENT THEATER AND ITS PEDAGOGIES: poetics and views on scenic-educational processes anchored in marginalized memories
Dissident Theater. Theater Pedagogy. Gender and Sexuality. Life stories. Education. Staging Processes.
How does the articulation between education, theater, and sexual and gender dissidences occur in a creative process based on life stories? In the course of this paper, based on a theoretical-practical research, inspired by the methodologies of action research and performative writing, anchored in the approach of life stories, I develop, together with tolher dissident subjects, the Cena Queer Workshops, in which, based on the participants’ life narratives, we elaborate a drama text and a scenic experiment, aiming, from this practical experience of scenic construction, to answer this question, as well as to understand and relate the theoretical postulates, referring to the categories that support this research – theater, education and sexual and gender dissidences – and that are the bases of what I call Dissident Theater. In this sense, the development of this research takes place through a discussion about the debates regarding sex, sexuality, gender, compulsory heterosexuality, etc. and its unfolding within artistic theatrical work, relating it to the principles of dialogue, emancipation and liberation. Tracing a reflection on life stories, I analyze the way in which they are established as a methodology for research, education and scenic creation and conclude with na overview of the entire path developed in the Cena Queer Workshops based on the methodological paths adopted.