ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two intervention mechanisms designed through the art of performance and theatre for addressing the reproduction of gender violence. The interventions occurred in two public high schools located in neighborhoods with a high rate of violence, to the West and East of Mexico City. The instructional mechanisms problematized the assumptions that validate gender violence and aimed for generation of more equitable relationships between genders, from a culture of peace and gender-equality perspective. The chapter emphasizes the role of performance and theatre in stimulating artistic, emotional, and body expressiveness along with fostering critical thinking by students regarding their individual and collective context. Also emphasized is their effectiveness for questioning gender relationships and building a new type of gender relations. The authors describe problematization of beliefs about gender through deliberation and critical understanding, as well as students’ engagement in collaborative processes that build social cohesion and develop the capacity of agency for social transformation. Highlighted are processes that generate the capability of building creative interactions for imaging new forms of relationship between genders.
