INTRODUC-
TION TO
FORWARD
THEATER
Alethia Berenice
Montero Baena
Psychofutuartist
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Potentialities of this Fine Art, Theater, have resulted
in an integrative, holistic manner of coordinating
groups through action. Telling stories as scenarios
and fitting in alternative ways to build them
emerges in Forward Theater. It is not the same to
think about scenarios as acting them. Living them.
Created from human groups to human groups,
each strengthens itself. Making up the roles we
play in life, everybody being actors at a time turns
this resource into a therapeutic pedagogical
process. Human reality and experience working
with spontaneity, imagination, creativity, are
assembled as the reflection of the created futures
becoming a prospective teaching method, an
existential via to build futures. Forward Theater,
thus, is a means of Futures Studies like a way of
being, not just of doing. Then this work explains the methodology of
Forward Theatre (FT) as well as its utility on
Futures Studies (FS). In Latin America, it is used
Prospective as the subject of studying futures.
Forward Theatre as the primary tool of a new
branch of Psychology, Anticipatory Psychology
or Psicoprospective with its brief description and
where does FT come from along with the virtues
of its source, are first related. The necessary
manner of proceeding in this mentions three parts
of the structure: warming up, theater techniques
and evaluation. Fundamental techniques FT are
described. It is presented in broad terms the cases
of an application under an academic situation,
what essential elements have been found within
the course of these activities and it ends the
importance of looking at the future “face to face.”
Theater radiates a particular fascination. Among
three walls it is developing a complete artistic
expression in which several possibilities can be
exposed: to draw the scenography, express
feelings that cannot show up other ways, sing,
dance, whole attainment of the human being. And
the reaffirmation of person. ANTECEDENTS
WHAT IS FORWARD THEATRE?
Within all Prospective methodologies, techniques,
methods we have found that Forward Theater
applies in an integrative manner a grouping of
techniques and methods in its elaboration. It
ends in a representation lived by the characters
themselves that build their future and also
including therapeutical appliances.
With these functional elements, Forward Theater
is executed after a previous sensitization. This is
through some exercises which will end in a play
and will help eliminate inhibitions and flourish
creativity.
Exploring Forward Theater is an open incitement
for everybody interested. Prospective and theater
open infinite possibilities that could be generated
collectively.
HUMAN FUTURES
Prospective is action. Without action, there is
only discourse. Action changes our way of acting
in the world; changes paradigms, attitudes,
ways of thinking, it drops us out of the box we
are submerged in with no creative or different
answers, just vicious cycles.
Two main issues mark the point of departure of FT:
• The theater is one of the Fine Arts which
potentialities have resulted in an integrative,
holistic manner of coordinating groups through
action
• Jacobo Levy Moreno, a Romanian-
Viennese psychiatrist in 1921, established
the Improvisation Theater with the idea
of therapeutical possibilities through the
release of unsettled emotional situations by
representing them in an active and structured
manner
In a few words, Levy met Freud and once, the first
told the other:
…well Dr. Freud, I begin where you met people.
You bring people to artificial sites, as their office,
I do it in the street, at their homes, or in natural
places. You analyze their dreams. I give them the