Cuerpos descifrados: acción teatral y memorias de género (Decoded bodies: theatrical action and gender memories)

• Published in: Retos (Madrid) Vol. 55; no. 55; pp. 57 - 64
• Main Authors: Gallo, Luz Elena, Zapata, Margarita Maria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Madrid Federación Española de Docentes de Educación Física (FEADEF) 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Theater; Theaters
• DOI: 10.47197/retos.v55.103638
• ISSN: 1579-1726; 1988-2041

Think the body from a formative perspective requires directing attention to the scenarios where human life takes place, and also to the bodies of pain that the armed conflict leaves in men and women. There are open or healed wounds, grievances experienced and embodied in intergenerational memories, silences and absences, fear and anxiety that invite us to think about a humanity cracked by war and urgent for restoration; These situations are echoes of suffering to update education and the educational actions that teachers carry out with human life. In the present study, a sample of this memory is taken with 15 women to whom the Colombian armed conflict left traces, regrets, pain, and indignation and, to build hope, we went to the Theater of the Oppressed with the interest of resignifying these female bodies with glimpses of reparation, through exercises, games and theatrical techniques of the Rainbow of Desire, the Image-Theater and the Forum-Theater, performative acts that, together with the narrative biographical method, allowed us to decipher female bodies that embody war in canvas bodies, bodies of the guilt, bodies of exile and bodies of fear. And envision the educational power that theatrical action has to learn about the experience that weaves memory and spins life.