Gabriela Yepes-Rossel

This research addresses an underexplored yet increasingly significant phenomenon in the Southern Peruvian Andes: the emergence of Indigenous women theater artists and dance performers who are resignifying their traditions to challenge normalized practices of intersectional inequity and violence. It investigates how these women, operating from an intuitive feminist standpoint, transform their performative repertoires—which include dance, ritual, play, costumes, and masks—into disruptive scenarios of alternative world-making. This project employs three innovative approaches: an interdisciplinary framework grounded in Indigenous decolonial feminist theory and Andean intercultural theater; feminist ethnography as its primary methodology; and a digital visual archive for its dissemination.