From legitimization to professionalization: vocational theatres during the first peronism

Abstract

The incursion of public policies into the cultural sphere during the period 1946-1955 meant the realization of a project of great complexity where art and artistic education were promoted from different ways. One of these was formal arts education through the creation of schools and conservatories aimed at training professional artists. The other was the promotion by the State of numerous artistic experiences of a vocational or amateur nature, whose main objective was to democratize cultural content while hierarchizing popular culture. We intend to reconstruct and analyze one of these experiences, that of the vocational theatres, considering their practices, scope, objectives, and, at the same time, its connection with the previous similar artistic experiences in the country, many of them were already developed at the beginning of the twentieth century.