Corporality, dramatic creation and community theater at the Intercultural University of Veracruz

Abstract

The following paper presents some of the most significant strategies of a research project centered on the development of creative and communicative abilities in university students. Such skills are applied to dramatic creation and the use of drama to revitalize indigenous languages as well generating and implementing management processes to improve local living conditions in mainly rural communities, in the State of Veracruz. The project activities were carried out in the four regions where the campuses of the Intercultural University of Veracruz (UVI, according to its initials in Spanish) are located. The paper focuses mostly in the work carried out at the Grandes Montañas campus, where it was possible to consolidate a bilingual drama group, involved in sociocultural interventions, through Community theater.