Corpo, danza-resistenza e “traumartivismo” in Libano: lo spettacolo Tajwal (2011) di Alexandre Paulikevitch

Starting from the concept of “traumartivism” as a strategy for transforming and translating individual and collective traumatic experience into artistic language, creating meaning, memory and community, within the present contribution we want to focus on the Lebanese artistic production. Lebanon is a country that, in recent years, has gone through a series of traumas of different kinds. The focus is on the creative exploration of the body, carried out by Alexandre Paulikevitch, a Lebanese dancer and performer who in his 2011 dance performance Tajwal (Taǧwāl, Walk) proposes a reflection on the “mutilated body”. This becomes the individual metaphor for all bodies that are discriminated against because they are considered different and as a collective metaphor for the urban body of the city of Beirut, subjected to a process of memory erasure.