This session will explore the concept of dissent in our everyday life. Starting from everyday conflict scenarios we will consider how dissent fosters creativity, and how it can turn into the art of dissent on stage. We will present different forms of engaged theater to analyze the different ways artists sought to use their art for constructing critical thinking among spectators. The use of the stage as a platform for political analysis or advocacy has a long tradition; a typical example is, for instance, the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s theatrical techniques in the first decades of the 20th century, or Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed in the 1970s.
Following a theoretical introduction, participants will experience how to perform dissent; they will develop an everyday conflict scenario in order to present/perform/investigate different alternatives of dissent.
