ideas or at least a basis for my thesis

ideas or at least a basis for my thesis:

The expression of the human experience, in any form, becomes an entity in itself, and in its existence, having been expressed, communicated, articulated in any form, becomes a tool to change the very experience from which it was born.
Community-based performance, participatory and collective by nature, is an extremely important and effective forum through which political and social reaction and change can occur. I am interested in community-based theatre and performance art as a medium used by a group of people to directly reflect and engage an audience, with whom the performing group shares an identity or story or struggle.....by interpreting this shared experience in an intentionally created space within it, the public can be, in a way, confronted by themselves and engaged in a conversation and questioning of the legitimacy and appropriateness of the political and social structures which govern their everyday existence.
I wish to explore the possibilities and implications of this kind of conversation, one spawned by live performance, as opposed to written word. Live movement, music and spoken word can capture and express emotions, ideas, stories of the human experience in ways that written dialogue often cannot in its stagnant and concrete form. People can become deeply affected and inspired by the affirmation of their connection and power brought to them through politically and socially driven or just any form of live performance art. And often times, this form of expressive art can shake people out of their passive acceptance of oppressive circumstances simply by creating a space in which they can directly witness and feel a powerful connection amongst them.
For this, I wish to focus on such performances and works brought to public arenas, the streets, bars, town squares, any space which finds the regular joes and workers, THE PEOPLE. We have been so successfully bombarded by an ideology of competition and individuality that discourages us from imagining how we could live and what we could do together, collectively. When a group of people, large or small, experiences a show performed by people who in any way affect them emotionally, mentally, physically, if the audience is brought to just feel something, anything TOGETHER, even if its just laughter, we need to be reminded of our human connection, reawakened to what we share. And when we are, great things happen.

I think this idea and form of reaction/expression/activism shows great power to brighten and broaden awareness and understanding about what is going on in the world, locally and globally, as experienced by individuals and communities. Socially conscious performance art, by the people and for the people, in the name of a world where we can love, respect and embrace ourselves and each other, trusting our ability to live better, happier lives together without the shields we have been conditioned to keep between us.