THEATER OF ONESELF : DECOLONIAL CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE SCHOOL SPACE
Theater of the self; Decoloniality; Take care of yourself; Theater education; Decolonial pedagogy; Practice as Research; Somatic-Performative Research
This master's dissertation is intended to develop an investigation process of an epistemic field of Theater Education (MAGELA, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) with the aim of transforming the role of educator into a decolonial role, capable of destabilizing the colonial structures of Eurocentric hegemonies present in our schools and in our curriculum. Having the school as a locus, the research was developed from the educator-student relationship, mediated by artistic practice, based on decolonial notions in dialogue with the principle of “self-care” (FOUCAULT, 1994, 2004, 2006). By believing in the research process as a continuous practice of investigation and intuition, the Somatic-Performative Approach (SPA) (FERNANDES, 2014, 2018, 2022) emerges as a challenge when thinking about a methodological path for the construction of decolonial creative processes, bringing as artistic practice as an organizing axis. We appropriated and incorporated into the artistic process carried out, some elements of the Somatic-Performative Approach from the perspective of the Somatic-Performative Research (PSP), as we believe that the investigation, when starting from the lived body (soma) as a means of creation, production and reflection, is capable of build a link between theory and practice, thus making artistic practice and the body in all its potential, core elements of all research.