Theatre project for people with intellectual disabilities for the users of the Asociación ASPRODEME Puerto Real (Cádiz – Spain). The participants belong to the group R.G.A. – Residencia Gravemente Afectados and to the group R.A. – Residencia Adultos.
The workshop is presented as a new and original experience in which all participants are accompanied and guided through a process of self-discovery, encouraging their imagination and creativity in order to unite, encourage and develop their human and artistic abilities.
Play is the pedagogical focus of the different sessions, centred on the search for the unknown pleasures and beauty that are intrinsic to every human being.
The participant, the person, is the educational material. The goal is to find ways and processes to discover and develop their abilities and build human relationships. Emotions, joy, doubt, surprise… show us the way to take decisive action to achieve this goal.
Improvisations and exercises characterised by gestures and drama, movement-body relationships, sensory education, verbal and non-verbal communication help to externalise and transform different moods, physical attitudes, and everyday actions derived from our daily lives.
Within the theatre workshop, we highlight a section dedicated to the visual arts, which provides an opportunity to develop manual and visual learning skills.
Together, and by forging a cooperative relationship, we bring to life a true artist’s studio where we can experiment with the different creative possibilities of materials, colours and shapes.
Masks represent a symbolic vehicle for increasing expressive abilities and promoting acceptance of the personal ‘self’: a continuous journey between the conscious and the unconscious.
Through masked improvisation exercises, individually and in pairs, we try to channel our fears, social problems, stupidity, and desires in order to realise the need to always refer to the other person on stage.
The ability to be and create another character to show our humanity: embodying a role is discovering my personal journey.
“Most of us are ordinary people but theatre gives the opportunity to be extraordinary.”
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