Persistências e insistências: reflexões sobre a diversidade corporal nas Artes da Cena

Abstract

This work reflects on situations of inclusion and accessibility in the Performing Arts. In light of the small number and even the absence of artists with disabilities in the fields of Theater and Dance in Goiânia-Go, a debate is held regarding the reasons for these facts, while also proposing other ways to work and create with both artists with and without disabilities concurrently. The aim is to understand the reasons behind these types of exclusion to intend and challenge other ways of making theater and dance with artists with disabilities, in pursuit of a non-hegemonic art that is as powerful and creative as any other. Through the methodology of Practice as Research, the entire study was experienced by the author in regular, technical, and artistic education spaces. Initially, the text will address experiences of inclusion in schools in Goiânia and Cultural-Historical Psychology as an epistemological foundation. In a second moment, it will address experiences with theater classes from the perspective of Accessible Playwriting in the Diversus Dance Group (GDD) linked to the Federal University of Goiás, as an Extension Project. In a third moment, it will discuss the staging and presentations of an artistically and poetically accessible Theater-Dance show, featuring a cast of artists with and without disabilities: 'The Boxes of Jéssica,' conceived and directed by the author of this thesis along with the GDD collective. The result is a consistent artistic elaboration and a diverse audience of over 600 people who were able to witness the strength of inventive work with artists with disabilities in the Performing Arts, transitioning from a general place of invisibility, violence, and silence of people with disabilities to a place of quality, fertility, aesthetics, the production of socio-political confrontations, and 'seismic shocks' in the ableist social structure.