THEATER AND NEW HIGH SCHOOL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Skills, competencies and multiple experiences
Theater. Education. Multiple skills. Experience. Remote teaching.
Appropriating the findings I’ve found, as an artist and teacher, and my student-actors, this research, which has a qualitative nature, aims to understand, experiment and disseminate a more complete and comprehensive education within the Covid-19 pandemic historical context’s complexity lived throughout 2020 to 2022. The theoretical dialogue is based on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, on the pedagogy of the imaginary, by Gilbert Durand, and on the artistic and theatrical experience as a motto for transformation and therapeutic results taking as a start point the theories of Jorge Larrosa and Augusto Boal. Therefore, it starts from three different moments of the theatrical experience lived during the pandemic at Centro de Ensino Médio 01 do Gama, a public school in the Federal District. The theatrical workshops started remotely, during the period of total social isolation and suspension of in-person classes and they also went from the hybrid and restrictive teaching of the pandemic to rehearsals and presentations without a protective mask while the pandemic was decreasing. Seeking to cross the borders that limited us, both due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the new teaching model, culminating in the implementation of the New High School Methodology, the theatrical event at the school sought to transform difficulties into possibilities by practices that would enhance skills and public school competences. The experience proved to us in a substantial way that the theatrical event at school makes learning much more unabridged, affective, therapeutic, welcoming and sensitive, especially when the pandemic was causing distancing and receding.