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Mexican Trilogy/Trilogía Mexicana: Writing Bodies Through Five Hundred Years
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2015
Abstract
Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Mexica writing utilized a largely pictorial system in which bodies undertaking actions (pictorial-iconic presentation) and hieroglyphic text were used to both document and communicate information. Between 2006 and 2010, one of Mexico's most renowned innovative and interdisciplinary performance ensembles, La Máquina de Teatro, worked with Mexica documents and sculptures in the creation of its Trilogía Mexicana (Mexican Trilogy). I discuss fragments of the performance and studio-based creative processes as they translated from the wordless fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writing into an embodied, corporeal, moving form for a twenty-first-century performance stage, specifically aiming to explore notions of memory, temporality, history, and postdramatic theatre.
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- Copyright © Ruth Hellier-Tinoco 2015