EN GIRO
En Giro is a social-impact arts project created by young people for young people. Through theater, audiovisual storytelling, and conversations with specialists, it explores bullying and cyberbullying from the perspectives of the aggressor, the target, and the observer, turning each experience into a space for dialogue and transformation.
A creative bridge against bullying
En Giro grew out of creator Macarena Mochón’s personal experience and a group of young artists’ determination to stop standing by in the face of school violence. The play follows Tomás, Micaela, Martina, and Alma, four eighteen-year-olds who revisit past experiences that continue to affect them.
The project treats bullying as a collective problem. Rather than focusing only on the target, it brings together the perspectives of the aggressor, the observer, the person who joins in for fear of exclusion, and the person subjected to repeated harassment.
From the stage to communities
The first version premiered on May 6, 2017, at Actors Studio Teatro in Buenos Aires. After its theater run, En Giro brought performances and facilitated conversations to schools, clubs, and other institutions, with support from Proteatro, Red Solidaria, and the NGO Libres de Bullying.
In 2021, the project became En Giro Virtual, an audiovisual experience focused on cyberbullying during the pandemic. Each presentation was designed as a starting point for conversations among specialists, families, educators, and young people.
More than 2,000 people took part in its different activities. The project appeared in the Emmy-nominated CNN en Español documentary Atrapados en el silencio, was declared of Cultural Interest by the Buenos Aires City Legislature, and was presented at the Third World Human Rights Forum in 2023.
Method
En Giro combines fiction, research, and discussion to help audiences recognize forms of violence that are often normalized. It creates identification with its characters, offers language for what is happening, and encourages responses grounded in empathy, respect, and acceptance of differences.
The experience was designed for schools, clubs, institutions, and municipalities seeking to address bullying and cyberbullying through art and community participation.
Credits
- Writer, director, and stage director: Macarena Mochón
- Cast: Inés Chaher, Ruth Tántera, Milena Nicotra, and Javier Santarosa Giannini
- Original executive producer: Macarena Mochón
- Theater producer: Emilia Kovalskys
- Assistant director and lighting designer: Jorge Thefs
- Choreography: Ruth Tántera
- Original music: Ian Mochón
- Photography: Natalia Pardo
- En Giro Virtual producers: Martina Uribe Parodi, María Victoria Gallardo, and Macarena Mochón
- En Giro Virtual music: Ian Mochón and Camila Canziani