Parteciparte
PartecipArte is a Theatre of the Oppressed company staging abuses of power and offering the opportunities to tackle them collectively and playfully. We have gathered theatrical games and techniques from all over the world to practice overcoming oppression in a creative way. We use these techniques in schools, prisons, universities, communities, squares, war-zones, in collaboration with NGOs, associations, international agencies and institutions around the world.
Olivier Malcor is a French-Dutch philosopher who has been working with theatre of the oppressed for 20 years, staging oppression and creating opportunities to deal with it collectively. He studied the methodology in the US and Latin America (2000-2003), wrote a thesis on “the invisible theatre of human relations” at the Sorbonne (2002) in Paris. He worked in many districts of Marseille with TO on male violence (2003-2005). He lived in Africa from 2005 to 2007, collaborating with several creative and political organizations. Now he lives in Rome where he founded Parteciparte in 2008 and keeps on working in Africa where he has created groups in Kenya, Tanzania, Comoro and Somalia.
Claudia Signoretti is an experienced and enthusiastic project designer, engaged for a long time in international projects for women’s empowerment. She discovered theatre of the oppressed with Olivier in Rome in 2009. Immediately they started working together with TO, first on conflict management in the suburban schools, then with adults to overcome stereotypes and violence against women, in Italy and abroad. Over time she has refined the technique of theatrical reports and she persists in transforming the ideas of the audience into political proposals for the institutions. She has worked in various countries, particularly in Afghanistan and India. In Italy she runs workshops and trainings on bullying, discrimination, and disability.
Many other people have been involved in these years.
Valentina Di Odoardo created several projects and shows on Trans-culture and consumption with CIES.
Rosa Martino enriched the work on theatrical aesthetics and work with the younger generations of unaccompanied migrants.
Leila Spignese organized trainings on differences in schools: She acts in various shows and she is committed in the Feminist network.
Lorenzo Macchi contributed to deepen the male question and the theme of the education of the youngest.
And many others brought contributions and competences, created unique characters, who sometimes continue to live …