(Trans)ações: experiências pedagógico-teatrais com pessoas transgêneros

Abstract

This research aims to propose a theater and performance workshop for the Uberlândia transgender community. In order to harmonize the distribution of this essay, the chapters were renamed as "cycles", an allusion to the butterflies metamorphosis and a metaphor to the research subjects: transgender people. In the first two cycles, there is a retrospective of academic and artistic trajectories that originated this master's research. The third cycle begins to elucidate the fundamental points about the theater workshop for transsexuals: the reasons of the choice of target audience, its methodology, the scenic results and logging tools chosen for the field research. In the fourth and fifth cycles, respectively, there is a description of how was the approach to the trans universe and the workshop divulgation. From the sixth to the ninth cycles, there is a description and reflection about the meetings during the workshop and the relevant issues that was seen with practice, problems, conflicts encountered and methodological adjustments due to the feedback the trans students gave about the practice. In the tenth cycle there is and analysis about the trans visibility, related to the theater, from the interviews with the participants and listeners, with the theoretical references coming from the gender studies, in order to understand the conflicts of bodies and trans identities with theatrical practices developed, during the workshop. Finally, in the tenth cycle, there´s a describe and reflection about the second workshop of theater for the trans community that was held during the 11ª Semana Cultural LGBT de Uberlândia (11th Cultural LGBT Week in Uberlândia).