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Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival

Featuring Tame by Lara Kramer By Amanda Bereska

Angie Cheng, Karina Iraola and Amélie Rajotte in Lara Kramer's Tame

This year’s twenty-eighth Weesageechak Festival, presented by Native Earth Performing Arts, includes a range of artists from across Canada and the United States to develop and showcase contemporary indigenous theatre, dance and interdisciplinary creations for stage. The two-week event runs November 11-21 and showcases work by dance artist Lara Kramer (Tame), puppeteer and musician Jani Lauzon (Prophecy Fog), actress Michelle Thrush (Find Your Own Inner Elder) and playwright Kenneth T. Williams (In Care). In addition to these celebrated artists, Weesageechak features new work by emerging talent, such as Yolanda Bonnell, Brian Solomo and writers from the Animikiig Playwrights’ Program.

Read here for an interview between Victoria Mohr-Blakeney and Kramer about her work Tame.

Posted November 11, 2015

Decolonizing Dance Stages

This year in Canada, the conversation about diversity, inclusion and representation has been omnipresent. I’m profoundly happy that more presenters, curators and jurors have brought these words into their vocabulary. But I question what they’re really referring to. Do we all really feel and understand the urgency? More precisely, when asking, “What does the word diversity really mean?” the answers from the dance milieu are often incomplete, reflecting a lack of comprehension of the issues at stake.

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New Blue Emerging Dance Festival

Local correspondent Dedra McDermott visits the New Blue Emerging Dance Festival workshop day on June 4, capturing class, choreography and what this new group is all about.

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