El movimiento del cuerpo humano, mediante la teoría de espacio y memoria corporal de Barba, aplicado a la ceguera

Abstract

The present paper attempts to simulate an environment similar to the living conditions surrounding people with congenital visual disability. Therefore, the following thesis topic has the purpose to create and direct a theatrical play. The sighted performers communi-cate to the spectator unusual sounds in the stage executing several actions with their bodies, voice and objects in order to create characters. These characters and their actions will trigger corporal reactions in the spectators, reactions that will put their bodies in alert-ness while experimenting sensations in a blind environment. Furthermore, in order to take the spectators outside of the visual theater, the spectators will be blindfold, thus cre-ating an imagination-based play (look and create without watching). The performers de-velop awareness of their actions and space around them generating auditory, gustatory, olfactory and tactile experiences in the spectators in order to make them undergo different sensations and emotions through the play. This displaying the relationship with the inner and outer world that surrounds people with congenital visual disability. The main topics within the thesis are: Eugenio Barba’s Anthropologic Theater of space and physical memory. The development of the stage play “Sienta una Silla y Siéntase” targeted for the blind and non-blind audience. The objective is to offer a theatrical experience based on physical blindness with the purpose of relating a thesis topic with a theatrical play run-ning inside an atypical scenario