The Corporal South: The path from the socio-cultural body to the poetic body.
Actor, Epistemology, Practice, Corporal South.
The Corporal South is a metaphor that discusses the Epistemologies of the South created by Boaventura de Sousa Santos as a point of convergence with the theatrical profession. The several meanings that this metaphor brings are investigated and the production of knowledge from the perspective of a Latin American philosophy. This search for incorporating the metaphor is given from the creation of a corporal practice for the actor, leading to the practice concepts of the Epistemologies of the South. This practice is governed by the intercultural principle (SANTOS, 2010), mainly the articulation of elements from the philosophical universe of capoeira and the Mayan culture, both philosophies of the south. This research tries to rescue from these practices psychophysical principles, the state of ritual body (trance) and the state of playing, directing this practice to the construction of a creative process which is inspired in the symbolic imaginary of Quetzalcoatl (Kukulkán). This proposes of hybrid concepts reveals the empirical character as a methodological guideline. In front of the complexity of systematizing the ambivalent processes of the body, and with the intention of asserting the emerging paradigm of the Boaventura theory (SANTOS, 2002), a mandala is created as a symbolic way to show the methodological dynamics that this process brings in the theoretical and practical dimensions.