Unstories II: Roaming

An integral part of our process is
the structure of feedback:
What did you love?
What did you see?
How did you interpret the moment or sequence?
What would you change?

Four sequences from Unstories II (Roaming)

How do you render a place?
How do you translate movement?
How do you inhabit contradiction?
How do you write ethnography?

Unstories and Unstories II (Roaming) were co-created and performed by a group of collaborators (listed here in alphabetical order): Morgan Blais-McPherson, Ugo Edu, Arielle Estrada Solomianski, Julian Gatto, Regina Gutiérrez, Sarah Hart, Camilla Hawthorne, Alvaro Hernandez Rodriguez, Adam Kersch, Maria Massolo, Matthew Nesvet, Bettina Ng'weno, Carolina Novella Centellas, Rima Praspaliauskiene, Ante Ursic, Mercedes Villalba, Keith Williams, and John Zibell.

Performance Testimonials

From audience members of Unstories
"Using a fusion of anthropological ethnography and dramatic interpretation, the urgency of the stories is heightened as the interplay of scenes and stories unfolds."

"From the standpoint of a student of anthropology, the scene that focused on empathy brought sharply into focus the distance between the observer anthropologist and the lived lives. It was a reminder that observation has its bias and distance. However, the performance as a whole was a stronger lesson that we can have a measure of understanding of difficult human situations. Anthropology has a valuable role in recording and reporting and exposing. Theater and Anthropology joined in expanding the lessons beyond the page."

"I liked the gentleman who went up into the rafter beams. I have been on a fishing boat that has been stopped by the US Coast Guard, this was exactly the perspective I remember – authority on high with voices booming down on us. My favorite element was on empathy. It was a visual reminder that there is always distance between two humans, watcher and watched."