A question which arose while watching a dance piece called 'Fragments' last night at Montreal's Mai Arts and Cultural Centre was the idea of healing histories.
Is it possible to ever truly heal history, to ever truly remove the pain, to undo what's been done? In a relationship if distrust occurs, the pain may never leave, in families, pain from childhood is a lingering phantom. White people feel guilt for histories of oppression, every German potentially takes on the burden of being born into the same country as Hitler.
How do we heal?
through sharing our histories? Through art, through conceptual boxes, through forgetting or remembering?
just a thought. your thoughts?
