BETWEEN TRAUMA AND PERFORMANCE: STRATEGIES TO BREAK THE PAST OF VIOLENCE AND COLLECTIVIZE MEMORY

Abstract

The following article seeks to investigate performance strategies as a mode of reparation and rupture with the past of violence and suffering related to military regimes in South America. It intends to analyze some performance attributes of trauma and testimony, as well as examples of performances, driven by trauma in Latin America. It is proposed that trauma could be understood in performance as a device for a creative re-elaboration of the past, which could make memory as something collective. Keywords Performance. Trauma. Testimony. Memory. Latin America.