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Mauricio Martínez Martínez
Mauricio Martínez MartínezTheater instructormauricio.martinez@mdlc.edu.mx

Acting and playing are one. We play theater to find our reality and our role in life and in society. From a very young age we can be part of fictional worlds in order to understand what happens in this one, in the real world. Through the theatrical experience, each student develops potentialities not only artistic, but also in the human field, since in the Theater the skills they will develop are competencies for life.

The children of Comunidad Infantil find the means to better control their bodies and explore their sensations; They play to feel things from the imagination, at exploring the darkness in broad daylight, at jumping without having to get up from the ground, at staying still only inside, at becoming invisible in plain sight.

Older children, at Children’s house explore emotions, follow collective work, try to improve their quality of movement; they play at imagining stories that come out of themselves and bring them to life in fictional spaces. We sing to challenge ourselves with movement, coordination and self-control.

Lower and upper elementary students experience different languages. They pretend that every empty space is a theatrical space. They print creativity to the challenges that arise from the imagination; they create collective stories, adapt them, change them for the benefit of the group and theatricality. They move to find the sensations and try to understand where some emotions arise from what they see in others and in themselves. They become invisible so that it is the character who inhabits the scene. They work in a creative team and observe a process.

The first task of education is to shake life up, but to leave it free to develop.