Eu sou essa! Eu sou esse!: corpos, perspectivas e minúcias teatrais na pequena infância

Abstract

This study aims to understand and analyze the experiences of 04 years-old childrens in a Municipal Unit of Early Childhood Education in Belo Horizonte. Characterizing early childhood education as a stage in the care of children is shared between family and school, an attempt to obtain a sensitive-looking under the perspective of childrens body. Linking them to the concepts of theater and aesthetics, we understand that the aesthetic experience is already present in the body from early childhood. We understand that the expression of small children must be present in the artistic and cultural thought in a attentive and participatoryway, watching your feelings and desires. This research used a qualitative approach, using the participant observation. We use informed practices in action research, performing 10 activities. We used tools as diary, photographs, films and drawings childrens conjugated to orality in order to understand how they perceive their presence in UMEI. The theoretical perspective is sustained in authors of the Childhood Studies (ARROYO,2012; GOUVÊA, 2011. QVORTRUP, 2010; SARMENTO, 2008; VIGOSTKI, 2008) and the arts (LEHMANN, 2007; SCHILLER, 1963). The analysis categories of UMEI permeated issues of time, space, environment and child-child relationships and adult-child. For theatrical analysis we focus on the signs body, space, time and materiality. This grouping was made up thinking in the forms of participation and the child's expression in the institution. The results of the modes of participation of young children in the routine of a UMEI, albeit indirectly or unintentionally, from its forms of expression are seen as moments of creativity. We realize that even in the context institutionalized children perform actions close to the concepts of post-dramatic theater. Although the artistic intention not to be present asconcepts formed in children or in the institution, it is possible to realize such activities to an aesthetic and expressive care.