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improvising life.
The Living Histories Ensemble spontaneously transforms everyday stories into theatre. Drawing on practices such as Playback Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Developmental Transformations, the LHE fosters empathy, insight, and an experience of being in community.
Over the past five years, the LHE has evolved practices in oral history and performance through their engagement with a multi-disciplinary, research project entitled: Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and Human Rights Violations. In particular, the LHE has explored how Playback Theatre, as a form of oral history performance, can be situated as a response to trauma, as a form of collaborative, embodied arts based research, and as an approach to collective storytelling.
Timeline
September 2008 - April 2009: Rehearsal
May 2009: International Life Stories Day
November 5-8/09: Remembering War, Genocide and other Human Rights ViolationsL Oral History, New Media, and the Arts
February 7/10: Responding to Haiti
October 17/10: Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center
March 27/11: AGIR at Articule
April 2011: Rwandan Commemoration
May 5-7, 2011: Cambodia from then to now: Memory and Plural Identities in the Aftermath of Genocide.
June 2011: Itorero
March 10/12: Going Public: Art and Dialogue
March 22-25/12: Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence
Living Histories Ensemble
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Oral history and public performance come together to facilitate deep listening and dialogue.
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