Teaching theater arts and the will to poeticizing at school: an abaporunian pause to philosophize

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Abstract

This essay presents a perspective on the experience whith almost three decades of teaching at arts-theater in K-12 Education. The relevant objective is to strengthen values for the performing arts, which promote the sharing of a sensitive education within the school. To meet this challenge, the writing is done in an authorial way, as a philosophical path and from a phenomenological perspective, with reflections of experiences in the teaching search to make poetry with human students in the time of K-12 Education. João-Francisco Duarte Jr., Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Viola Spolin, Ricardo Japiassu, among others, contribute to reflecting on theater, education, dramatic play, theatrical play and imagination. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard e Hannah Arendt are philosophical references for a reflection on the sensitive body, the imagination and the will in everyday experiences in the arts. The conclusion is that doing theater (playing and improvising) at school provides an opening to test the will of poeticize life, and that there is an urgent need to extend the time and provide spaces for doing theater in the context of K-12 Education.