Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Performance

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Histories of Trauma and Violence : Performance Practices of Removing and Remembering
Christel Stalpaert, Marieke Breyne, Pedzisai Maedza, and Sofie de Smet

PART I
Politics of Truth Commissions: Performance Practices as Transitional Practices of Justice

Chapter
Performing Transitional Justice : Individual Accountability and Societal Reparation in Rwanda 94 (Groupov, 2000) and The Truth Commission (Action Zoo Humain, 2013)
Klaas Tindemans

Chapter 2
The Truth Commission According to Action Zoo Humain : Performing Differential Futures from a Traumatic Colonial Past in Belgium
Christel Stalpaert and Evelien Jonckheere

Chapter 3
Youth Day Commemoration in South Africa: Forgetting through Remembering
Pedzisai Maedza

PART 2
Performing Trauma: Dialogical Dramaturgies of Embodiment in Transgenerational Landscapes

Chapter 4
‘Peeling the Wound’ : Dramaturgies of Haunting on the Neo-Apartheid Stage in South Africa
Mark Fleishman

Chapter 5
Embodied Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Post-Marikana South Africa
Marieke Breyne and Sofie de Smet

PART 3
Artistic Voices as Embodied Testimonial Practices of Loss and Violence

Chapter 6
Introducing Poo-tee-weet?
Christel Stalpaert

Poo-tee-weet? (On Catastrophic Mourning)
Mekhitar Garabedian

Chapter 7
Introducing Man on a Horse
Samah Hijawi

Man on a Horse
Samah Hijawi

Chapter 8
Introducing the Freshly Defeated
Sofie de Smet

The Freshly Defeated
Ayham Salloum

Notes on Contributors