“Fragments of Us” is a participatory theatre project born from the urgent intersections of climate change, migration, and the emotional landscapes they leave behind. It invites a group of young people who have lived through environmental disasters such as the DANA storms in Valencia, alongside migrant youth facing the compounded challenges of displacement, to co-create a performance rooted deeply in their lived experiences.
Building on the fundamental human instinct to tell stories through speech, gesture, memory, and improvisation, the project begins with a radical premise: that emotional truth must be the architecture of the performance. Rather than shaping stories to fit a pre-designed theatrical structure, we will allow the structure to emerge organically from the participants’ emotional realities.
Through a carefully designed series of storytelling workshops, emotional mapping exercises, and theatrical improvisation labs, participants will reframe their memories into collective scenes, movements, and voices. Together, we will explore how feelings become actions, how fragmented memories can generate dramatic power, and how unheard narratives can be transformed into communal acts of presence, resistance, and healing.
The ultimate goal is to create a powerful, emotionally charged theatre piece that resonates deeply with audiences and develop a replicable, participant-driven methodology—Emotional Emergence Theatre—for future projects engaging vulnerable or displaced communities.
“Fragments of Us” is not only a theatre performance. It is a living Human archive of emotion, resilience, and transformation — a new way of making theatre with, by, and for those whose stories most need to be heard.
Three artistic labs deliver the final replicable Virtual Interactive Emotional Emergence Theatre methodology, a Podcast, and a Game to offer a critical and reflective view on social, political, or historical issues.