The proposal for decolonization of the body of the COMPA -Teatro Trono, from El Alto, Bolivia.

Abstract

This article  wraps around the theatre methodology of  “decolonization of the body” elaborated by the sociologist Ivan Nogales ( in memoriam), during his experience as director and dramatist of the  Teatro do Trono,  from El Alto, Bolivia, since the end of 1980s. Such proposal is about a form  of  resistance and re-existence to the Modern/Colonial project, while it recovers ancestral epistemologies, through a “theatre of memory” and a community art, where many traditions of the classic, modern and popular theatre get mixed, crossing thus the abyssal line imposed by the modernity/coloniality,  through the deconstruction of the imposed imaginaries , in the search of love and liberty found in the possibility of the construction of a social body, obtained through “the  art of hug”.