Aportes de la educación popular y el teatro del oprimido en los procesos metodológicos y artísticos de cuatro grupos artísticos: Eslabón Cultural, Teatro Esquina Latina, Teatro la Odisea y Teatro la Culebra.

Abstract

This degree work is an analysis of the contributions of two currents of educational and artistic thought that contributed to the emergence and consolidation of work methodologies in various artistic groups in Cali. The starting point, then, is to define the historical elements that gave rise to Popular Education and the Theater of the Oppressed in order to go on to recognize these elements and their contribution to the processes currently carried out by four Caleño theater groups, they are: Esquina Latina, La Odisea Theater, La Culebra Theater, and The Cultural Link Association. The methodology consists of a theoretical review of the foundations of Popular Education from the perspective of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal's El Teatro del Oprimido. Based on the elements identified, the interviews carried out with the directors of the selected groups are analyzed. Among the main findings of this process, it is possible to show that although the groups worked do not recognize themselves as groups of the Popular line or Theater of the Oppressed, it is possible to identify founding elements of the theoretical perspective proposed in their work of artistic creation.