Saul Garcia-Lopez, aka La Saula, is a queer multidisciplinary performance artist, Professor of Performance and the Norwegian Theatre Academy, and co-artistic director of the internationally renowned performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. He is dedicated to expose, dislocate and challenge assumptions of embodiment, gender, identity and representation within an intercultural and trans-cultural context. As an artist, pedagogue and scholar, he explores the intersections of the theoretical framework of performance theory and training. From this position, La Saula tries to expose and reconcile the contradictions and challenges of being a creator and a theorist at the same time. His research interest reaches acting, directing and performance theory and pedagogy including indigenous approaches from the Americas, the embodiment of gender, ethnic, national identity, stereotypes and representation, indigeneity, post-coloniality, and decoloniality.
