List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionHistories of Trauma and Violence : Performance Practices of Removing and RememberingChristel Stalpaert, Marieke Breyne, Pedzisai Maedza, and Sofie de SmetPART IPolitics of Truth Commissions: Performance Practices as Transitional Practices of JusticeChapterPerforming Transitional Justice : Individual Accountability and Societal Reparation in Rwanda 94 (Groupov, 2000) and The Truth Commission (Action Zoo Humain, 2013)Klaas TindemansChapter 2The Truth Commission According to Action Zoo Humain : Performing Differential Futures from a Traumatic Colonial Past in BelgiumChristel Stalpaert and Evelien JonckheereChapter 3Youth Day Commemoration in South Africa: Forgetting through RememberingPedzisai MaedzaPART 2Performing Trauma: Dialogical Dramaturgies of Embodiment in Transgenerational LandscapesChapter 4‘Peeling the Wound’ : Dramaturgies of Haunting on the Neo-Apartheid Stage in South AfricaMark FleishmanChapter 5Embodied Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Post-Marikana South AfricaMarieke Breyne and Sofie de SmetPART 3Artistic Voices as Embodied Testimonial Practices of Loss and ViolenceChapter 6Introducing Poo-tee-weet?Christel StalpaertPoo-tee-weet? (On Catastrophic Mourning)Mekhitar GarabedianChapter 7Introducing Man on a HorseSamah HijawiMan on a HorseSamah HijawiChapter 8Introducing the Freshly DefeatedSofie de SmetThe Freshly DefeatedAyham SalloumNotes on ContributorsPerformances dealing with histories of violence and trauma in contemporary societiesIn this book, scholars and artists from different fields such as Performance Studies, Cultural and Visual Studies, Psychology and Performance Art address how performances and performance practices engage with histories of violence and trauma in contemporary societies. They explore performance practices as alternative approaches to transitional justice schemes, as embodied encounters with witnesses inside and outside rehearsal spaces, and as research environments for artists working on intergenerational trauma, the legacies of colonialism and migration. The collection offers new ways of seeing, healing and remembering violence and trauma in and through contemporary performances. It challenges common assumptions about dominant and silenced narratives, as well as precarious and resilient bodies that embody performances of historical and ongoing violence and trauma.