Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal talks about solidarity, dialogue and democracy

Thu, 05/07/2009 - 22:28 by matt noyes

Interview with Augusto Boal on Democracy Now from 2007. Boal died recently, at the age of 78.

The interview is great -- he describes his evolution as an educator/actor as well as the evolution of movements in Brazil, including the MST, landless workers movement. I love the way he describes the moment when he realized that he needed an alternative to using theater to tell people what to do.

I Second that (e)motion

Fri, 01/11/2008 - 01:48 by matt noyes

The idea of this game is to help people develop their ability to make a range of expressions by magnifying and reducing motions and emotions made by others.

Good for: breaking down barriers to expression, observing degrees of expression, developing registers of speech and motion, learning culturally specific forms

Setup: empty space, standing in a circle

Number of people: three at least

Materials: none

Time: 30 mins or so

Flow:

Participants form a circle, standing, and count off.