The focus of the present issue of Divadelní revue is on the body and its broad-spectrum grasp in performing arts. The body is a support, a tool, a concept, a methodology or simply a challenge for its various thematization and reflection. Through its embedding in specific existential, cultural and socio-political contexts, it always serves us as a significant seismograph of identities, relationships and the times. In current discourse in the Humanities, the body is seen as a central carrier of specific experience and becomes an important resource for research related to questions of history, memory and knowledge. At the same time, our body has always been confronted with the various mechanisms, constructs, precarizations and categorizations to which human civilization subjects it. This reciprocal relationship between the human and the body is also the connecting thread of all the diverse contributions in this issue.