This is a reflection on the agency of Afro-Atlantic performances from the perspective of epistemic decoloniality. Afro-Atlantic performance is a concept that must be understood as the way in which the marks of the Atlantic Ocean and its symbolic crossings are revealed in culture, and here specifically in contemporary Brazilian black theater, through the relationship with the markers of coloniality. The Atlantic is understood as a fundamental space of reflection for the History of humanity, through which cultural processes are formulated resulting from the impositions related to the expansion of the world (as it was previously conceived by the West), as well as from a continuous need of reformulations for the memory of colonial trauma. The performances are then taken as artistic gestures that create fissures in coloniality as a worldview and are forged from aesthetic and conceptual relationships marked by unfinished Atlantic routes. The study will observe the theatrical performances Traga-me a cabeça de Lima Barreto, Vaga carne and Oboró – masculinidades negras considering the colonial markers of time, space and word/language, from a perspective that they are projects of anti-coloniality.