Between Acting and Performing analyzes the performance practices of 4 Chilean companies of the early 1990s. These companies emerged within the context of transition towards democracy after Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, and after the arrival of performance art in Chile around 1970, which emphasised the body as the first place of enunciation and resistance during military rule. This study investigates how the sociopolitical context and the artistic practices of the creators from the late 1980s and early 1990s influenced the conception and execution of an specific kind of acting; one that “stages” the body as the first place of execution, representation and resistance. While bodies had literally disappeared as the result of murders committed by the militia and dictatorial government, acting and performance art made them appear on the stage more insistently.