"Teatro de Tierra": una experiencia de teatro comunitario chileno

Abstract

Teatro de Tierra was formed in Burkina Faso, West Africa, in 1998, by Catalina Cabrera, Chilean actress, and Enrico Cioffi, Italian actor. Their first project was the design of an AIDS campaign with the participation of the community. Ever since its beginnings, Teatro de Tierra has created six theater companies and a bilingual magazine. In the year 2000, Teatro de Tierra arrived in Putre, a rural community in Northern Chile, to put together a community project based on the collective memory of the Aymara people. As a result, a community theater show, Putire, murmullo de agua , was created as well as Kimsakalko , an artistic collective that set the basis for the foundation of Putre's Casa de la Cultura. This article explores the different phases of the creation of Putire and offers a description of the group methodology as well as the impact of this cultural project in the community as a whole.