As the European Journal of Theatre and Performance is now steadily growing into a bi-annual publication, we are proud to present this fifth issue as a result of our first open call for contributions. From now on, we will alternate between one specially themed and one general issue per year and authors will have the possibility to submit scholarly articles for future issues on a continual basis. Although no thematic focus was intended, unexpected convergences did emerge between the different contributions for this issue’s Essays section. The four contributions all engage with memory, the body, and the archive in their various intertwinements. It seems that the urge for searching and understanding how ‘performing remains’ (Schneider 2011) has only been growing in recent years, not only in theatre and performance practices all over the world but also in scholarship.
