Is Latin American Popular Theatre dead?
Performance, Poetry and Activism: Cultural Agency Coordinated by Alai Garcia Diniz This Work Group intends to discuss the process with which a performance embodies poetry, re-invents images through the body knowingness and creates a dialogue between the imaginary and the memory throughout different spaces and temporalities. The Group’s proposal is to study the ways to bring the collective memory, within a community, for discussion and re-create it in the literature of the body through singing, poetry or dance. Diachronically or synchronically, there is an immaterial knowledge that circulates in the place which offers itself as a transcultural mediation towards the global. Popular performances may embody intercultural knowledge. Creating bridges between poetry, activism and performance involve empowerment, subjectivity (body) and art. This glance reveals a forgotten cultural aspect which, according to Daniel Matthews, was coined as “the sun city” when he studied the poetry among Afro-Pe
