ABSTRACT

Given the social circumstances arising from the COVID-19 health crisis, we developed a participatory pedagogic methodology involving body experimentation and performing arts to explore ‘body memory’ as a tool for redefining new affective bonds and adaptation processes within urban environments and public spaces. This experimental methodology, addressed to community participation, involves exercises of body movement improvisation, physical theatre techniques and site-specific dance. We aim to draw an arc of cumulative learning and individual and group awareness that should facilitate a critical rediscovery of everyday urban experiences inside a ‘body-place-community’ dialogue. In the performative exercises, we inquire about a ‘creative body memory’ composed of conscious, temporal, and cognitive knowledge built on interpretive fragments, images, and mental representations; and an embodied unconscious and extemporal one, built on emotional and adaptive ‘body-place-community’ connections. This methodology was tested in a pilot laboratory addressed to a group of adolescents living in Raval’s multicultural neighbourhood (Barcelona) and some of them at risk of social exclusion. It was implemented with the collaboration of ‘Xamfrà, Raval’s Music and Performance Centre’ in the context of Raval’s summer youth activities organised in July 2021.

摘要

鉴于COVID-19健康危机引起的社会环境，我们开发了一种涉及身体实验和表演艺术的参与式教学方法，以探索“身体记忆”作为重新定义城市环境和公共空间内新的情感纽带和适应过程的工具。这种针对社区参与的实验方法涉及即兴肢体动作、形体戏剧技巧和特定场地舞蹈的练习。我们的目标是绘制一条累积学习以及个人和群体意识的弧线，以促进在“身体-场所-社区”对话中对日常城市体验进行批判性的重新发现。在表演练习中，我们探究一种“创造性的身体记忆”，它由建立在解释性片段、图像、和心理表征；一种体现为无意识和外在的，建立在情感和适应性的“身体-场所-社区”联系之上。这种方法在一个试点实验室中进行了测试，该实验室针对的是居住在拉瓦尔多元文化社区（巴塞罗那）的一群青少年，其中一些青少年面临社会排斥的风险。该项目是在 2021 年 7 月组织的拉瓦尔夏季青年活动背景下与“拉瓦尔音乐和表演中心 Xamfrà”合作实施的。