In this innovative work, Ruth Hellier-Tinoco proposes the concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theater and performance experiments that explore issues of cultural memory, history, transgression, and community transformation. Combined with ideas of postmemory and rememory, palimpsest bodies are inherently trans-temporal as they renew embodied gestures, vocalized calls, and sensory experiences. Focusing four projects from on one of Mexico's most significant contemporary theater companies, La M quina de Teatro, directed by renowned artists Juliana Faesler and Clarissa...
In this innovative work, Ruth Hellier-Tinoco proposes the concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theater and performance experiments th...