THEATRICAL BEAUTY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
CRA’P Workshops 2026
14th and 15th March
SATURDAY from 10h to 19h, and SUNDAY from 10h to 17h
The Yes Theatre is a methodology that understands theatre as a space for care, sensitivity and collective transformation. It is based on the idea that vulnerability can be a kind of social justice, and that scenic beauty can generate recognition, dignity and change.
In this workshop, through the tools of the Yes Theatre, you will learn:
-To have creative tools to work with vulnerable groups in a respectful and creative manner.
-Ability to generate projects with artistic quality and social substance.
-Knowing how to connect art and transformation at work with any collective.
-You will understand how to create dramaturgy and theatre works from scratch, based on authenticity and with beauty as the protagonist.
In this workshop, we will explore how presence, subtleness, and caring can become creative and political tools. We will work with personal and collective stories, giving body and voice to that which is often silenced.
– How can we turn vulnerability into a creative force?
– How can care and beauty become a framework for transformation?
– How can the creative process generate impact when it is brought to the stage?
The Yes Theatre provides a transformative process, as well as a striking stage performance. The internal and collective journey culminates in a theatrical action that reveals what is essential: our shared humanity.
Methodology:
Based on the international research and practice of Marina Pallares Elias (PhD), this work brings together the body, memory and presence as axes of creation and transformation. Through games, improvisation and poetic creation, we will focus on:
– Vulnerability as a creative force and political act.
– Beauty as a language of acknowledgement and care.
– ‘Yes’ as an ethical attitude in facing a world full of negations.
– The body as an archive and a territory of memory.
– The collective choir (YesChorus) as a community strength.
– The scenic presence as a meeting space between the self and the collective.
Workshop objectives:
– Transform vulnerability into creative power and political action.
– Rediscover beauty and caring as frameworks for transformation.
– Reconnect with the voice and own presence to unlock creativity.
– Generate collective narratives that transcend testimony and become shared poetry.
– Enhance theatre as a space for impact, acknowledgement, and community.
To whom it is addressed:
To artists, educators, therapists, social workers, activists, and all those who feel the need to reconnect with their creativity, their voice, and their sense of community.
Suitable for those who feel stuck, exhausted, or disconnected, and seek to reconnect with their presence, sensitivity, and the power of ‘Yes.’
An invitation:
The Yes Theatre is an encounter with our most beautiful vulnerability. It is a space where delicacy becomes resistance, and where the act of creating together is transformed into a gesture of poetic justice and shared transformation.
Taught by Marina Pallares-Elias
Fee:
180€ (160€ CRA’P collaborators and associates, and APdC, APCC, AADPC and AGT members).
Discount registration before 15th February:
160€ (140€ CRA’P collaborators and associates, and APdC, APCC, AADPC and AGT members)
Registrations:
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entradas-formacion-teatro-del-si-belleza-teatral-para-la-justicia-social-1975628319486?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
Further questions: marina@teatredelsi.com
At CRA’P working space
The Yes Theatre, led by Marina Pallarès Elias, was founded on the basis of more than twenty years of experience in creation, training and research into a new aesthetic within the applied theatre. Marina holds a PhD in Performing Arts, specialising in Applied Theatre, from the University of West London (2025). She founded and directs (2014-2025) Acting Now, a company based in Cambridge (UK) that has received recognition and grants from institutions such as the BBC, Arts Council England, Big Lottery and Iberescena.
The creations and training programmes based on the Yes Theatre methodology have been developed in Spain, Turkey, France, Italy, Mexico and England, and their research has been presented at leading conferences and lectures on four continents, such as IDIERI (Vancouver, Canada), IFTR (Accra, Ghana and Manila, Philippines), the Theatre and Feminism Conference (Madrid, Spain) and the PSI (London, England).
With her return to Spain, Marina is now promoting the creation of the Yes Theatre to consolidate and expand this methodology both nationally and internationally.