Performing Palimpsest Bodies

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).

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsSection One: OutlinesIntroduction: Creating theatre through remains of bodies of historyChapter 1: Performing re-visions: Palimpsests, postmemory, rememory and remainsChapter 2: La Máquina de Teatro: Trans-temporal theatres, bodies and environments in MexicoSection Two: Four Performance ProjectsChapter 3: Mexican Trilogy: Scenic correlation of memory and times - Five performers, three years, three entangled parts:Nezahualcóyotl / Scenic Correlation of Memory and Times;Moctezuma II / The Dirty War;Malinche / MalinchesChapter 4: Zapata, Death Without End: Five collectives, one year, co-participatory performanceChapter 5: War in Paradise: Twenty-five performers, three weeks, work-in-progressChapter 6: Time of the Devil: Trans-solo, one body, many body parts Epilogue: Theatre for generating futures: Performing archives, remaining differentlyReferencesNotesIndex