Performing Palimpsest Bodies (eBook)

lt;p>Ruth Hellier-Tinoco is a professor of performing arts (music, theatre, dance) and performance studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As a scholar-creative artist her work explores intersecting performance practices of identity, memory, history and environments, particularly in Mexican cultural contexts, with a focus on community-engagement, power relations and playful creative experiments. She is editor of the multidisciplinary journal Mexican Studies (Estudios Mexicanos).

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Section One: Outlines

Introduction: Creating theatre through remains of bodies of history

Chapter 1: Performing re-visions: Palimpsests, postmemory, rememory and remains

Chapter 2: La Máquina de Teatro: Trans-temporal theatres, bodies and environments in Mexico

Section Two: Four Performance Projects

Chapter 3: Mexican Trilogy: Scenic correlation of memory and times - Five performers, three years, three entangled parts:

1. Nezahualcóyotl / Scenic Correlation of Memory and Times;


2. Moctezuma II / The Dirty War;


3. Malinche / Malinches

Chapter 4: Zapata, Death Without End: Five collectives, one year, co-participatory performance

Chapter 5: War in Paradise: Twenty-five performers, three weeks, work-in-progress

Chapter 6: Time of the Devil: Trans-solo, one body, many body parts

Epilogue: Theatre for generating futures: Performing archives, remaining differently

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