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REAson d’etre productions & tiger princess productions present
July 6-8, 2006
Thursday to Saturday, 8:30 pm
AND
July 12-15, 2006
Wednesday to Saturday, 8:30 pm
Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester Street, Toronto
(north of Carlton & east of Parliament)
Tickets
$16 single ticket in advance
$20 at the door (cash only)
$28 for two shows (Scarlet’s Room and VIVID) in advance
$14 Student, Senior, CADA members
Group rates available
Call 416.366.7723
Or visit www.stlc.com
for more information
TUESDAY, JULY 11 & WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2006
8:00pm
Tickets: $9 regular; $7 students/seniors/CADA
416-367-1800
info@dancemakers.org
DANCEMAKERS CENTRE FOR CREATION is thrilled to welcome its fourth Summer Residency Program recipient, acclaimed Aboriginal artist Santee Smith & Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, June 26 through July 12, 2006.
PUBLIC SHOWINGS:
Informal presentations of A CONSTELLATION OF BONES, created by Santee Smith, Dean Hapeta and kateri akiwenzie-damm during the residency.
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre is a dynamic Aboriginal dance company that creates, produces and presents original dance works of excellence while drawing inspiration from innovative contemporary and Aboriginal dance.
Founded by Artistic Director Santee Smith, the company communicates with diverse audiences insight and exploration of indigenous aesthetics.
http://www.santeesmithdance.com
http://www.dancemakers.org
A celebration of Aboriginal dance! July 14-16, 2006
Living Ritual: World Indigenous Dance Festival is the first-ever international Indigenous dance festival in Canada. Living Ritual, presented by Artistic Director Santee Smith's new dance company, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, takes place July 14-16 at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario and at York University's Keele St. campus in Toronto. The festival highlights artistic investigation, communication and education and is organized in partnership with the World Dance Alliance Global Assembly at York University (taking place directly after the festival July 17-21) and the Woodland Cultural Centre.
July 14 will be held at the Woodland Cultural Centre where select artists will showcase their work and lead workshops. July 15 and 16 will be held at York University. Two evenings of performance highlight the diversity of Aboriginal dance expression. The associated daytime programming includes keynote speakers, panel discussions, master classes and workshops with noted professionals and educators.
The festival celebrates and promotes global diversity by presenting Indigenous dance forms from Canada and around the world. Living Ritual offers a unique opportunity for Canadian and international Indigenous dance artists to converge and celebrate their individual and collective identities, fostering an artistic and cultural exchange while encouraging communication and the sharing of ideas.
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
(Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, Accolade East, York U)
Performance Program #1, Saturday July 15th 7pm (followed by Artist Talk/Q&A)
Spirit of the Masks Le-La-La Dancers (British Columbia)
A narrated traditional performance of songs and dances using vibrant regalia including cedar masks, headdresses and drums. The performance depicts ancient legends of animals and spirits.
The Le-La-La Dancers are a traditional First Nations dance troupe whose members are from the Kwakwaka'wakw (pronounced Kwak Kwak kee wak) Nation of northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Based in Victoria, the troupe has been together since 1987, under the artistic direction of George Taylor. Le-La-La means "traveling from here to there" in the Kwakwaka'wakw language, and the troupe performs internationally, sharing their culture with the world.
Dear Deer (Querido Venado) Norma Araiza (Ontario)
Dear Deer is an excerpt of a 30-minute personal and contemporary dance ritual inspired by the Yaqui Deer Dance performed traditionally by men only, during the celebrations of Holy Week in Sonora, Mexico.
Norma Araiza is a Yaqui/Mexican performer, choreographer and instructor, living in Toronto. She has worked in different disciplines to find her unique style that blends dance, theatre, vocals, percussion and Tai Chi Chuan with cultural themes in a contemporary context.
Five Traditional Dances Tewa Dancers from the North (New Mexico)
Performing Butterfly Dance, Eagle Dance, Buffalo Dance, Winter Buffalo Dance and Deer Dance.
Founded in 1974 by Andrew Garcia (Tewa), in San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, the Tewa Dancers from the North are dedicated to preserving and carrying forward the artistic and cultural heritage of the Tewa people. They have performed throughout the United States and internationally with more than twenty visits to Canada, providing audiences with an opportunity to experience the vibrancy of Tewa culture, past and present.
Yetina Living Roots Foundation (Colombia)
Yetina is a message of life, where the spirit of the Taita INTI (sun) turns into the skin-fabric of the YACURUNA (Boa Anaconda serpent) in order to exchange knowledge. This piece is created through oral tradition, dance, magic-religious chants, facial and corporal paint, costumes created with vegetal fibres and tints, cotton knits from diverse Aboriginal cultures, crowns, necklaces, masks and musical instruments.
Living Roots Foundation director, Floresmiro Rodriguez Mazabel, is a Colombian Aboriginal leader and shaman from the Yalcon Tribe, a tribe that is striving to survive with only 20 families still alive. He has been a researcher, helper and mediator to diverse tribes in Colombia encouraging cultural exchange among Aboriginal tribes to preserve ancestral knowledge. Rodriguez has been traveling with his message through South and Central America and Europe. This is his first time in North America and he is thrilled to exchange knowledge, gifts and messages with other Aboriginals.
Performance Program #2, Sunday July 16th 7:30pm (followed by Artist Talk/Q&A and Closing Ceremony)
My Father Told Me Gaétan Gingras (Quebec)
A contemporary solo which reflects on the father-son relationship, exploring the information and wisdom that is continually being shared with future generations by our elders.
Gaétan Gingras, an Iroquois-Mohawk, is known for his strong interpretation skills and athletic presence, recognized by such choreographers as Robert Desrosiers, Ginette Laurin and Gilles Maheu. In addition to his own works, he has choreographed over a dozen works for Dena Davida's Tangente since 1993.
THE NAMING (solo) Rulan Tangen (New Mexico)
"dust, bones, tears, stories are all brushed away into corners and left for dead. from this mud, the pulsing emergence of the breath of life: 'woniya', giving birth to itself and a creation story is re-born" - Rulan Tangen
Rulan Tangen is a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico. A lifelong dance artist, she has performed internationally in over 40 productions in the genres of ballet, modern dance and Northern Plains powwow. She is director of Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations. Her choreography has been presented in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.
Here On Earth Kaha:wi Dance Theatre (Ontario)
This recently Dora-nominated contemporary work is an exploration of spiritual connection to the land, Earth as living organism, Earth as Mother, Earth as sacred. The concept for Here On Earth is abstracted from the Iroquoian Creation Story with the belief in the existence of a Sky World.
Kaha:wi, translated from the Mohawk language, means 'to carry.' Kaha:wi Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal dance company whose vision is to create and promote contemporary artistic expression that reflects and honours the integrity of Indigenous cultural aesthetics and world views. Artistic Director Santee Smith is an Aboriginal artist who is bridging the gap between contemporary and traditional Aboriginal dance in Canada.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS (Accolade East Lecture Hall, York U)
Living Ritual offers a forum where current issues in global Indigenous dance, professional development, artistic investigation and dance education can be furthered. The keynote speakers are New York's Daystar/Rosalie Jones, a Chippewa pioneer of 'native modern dance' and Vancouver's Byron Chief-Moon, a multimedia artist who incorporates Blackfoot traditions into his contemporary creations.
Keynote Speakers
Daystar/Rosalie Jones (Saturday July 15, 9:30-11am) speaks on The Importance of Dance from Ceremony to the Stage. A pioneer of native modern dance, Daystar/Rosalie Jones was born on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. She is of Pembina Chippewa ancestry on her mother's side. She holds a Masters Degree in Dance from the University of Utah and studied at the Julliard School in New York City under Jose Limon. In 1980, Rosalie Jones founded her company DAYSTAR: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America, an all-native modern dance company which toured throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Byron Chief-Moon (Sunday July 16, 9:30-11am) is a Blood Indian of the Blackfoot Confederacy and a multi-talented performer on stage and screen as well as a playwright and author. Chief-Moon founded Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association (CAPPA), a dance-theatre company incorporating Blackfoot language, song, dance and story. Chief-Moon shares traditional elements of his culture in a contemporary form. While in Vancouver, BC, Chief-Moon is a guest dancer with the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.
Panel Discussions (Accolade East Lecture Hall, York U)
Panel Discussion # 1
Saturday July 15: 11am-12noon
Contemporary Dance and Indigenous Aesthetics: What are Indigenous Aesthetics in Aboriginal Dance
Moderator - Tom Hill, Panelists - Andrew Garcia, Daystar/Rosalie Jones, Marrie Mumford, Floresmiro Rodriguez
Panel Discussion # 2
Saturday July 15: 2-3pm
Emerging to Mainstream: Emerging artists and senior artists discuss the path to increasing awareness and presentation of their work
Moderator- Jerry Longboat, Panelists - Penny Couchie, George Taylor, Tamara Podemski
Panel Discussion # 3
Saturday July 15: 3-4pm
The Importance of Dance Documentation
Moderator - Selma Odom, Panelists - Norma Araiza, Gaétan Gingras, Marilyn Hunt
Panel Discussion # 4
Sunday July 16: 11am-12noon
Global Networking - Promotion and Marketing Artistic Work
Moderator - Denise Bolduc, Panelists - Mimi Beck, Peter Chin, Adriana Sabogal
Panel Discussion # 5
Sunday July 16: 2-3pm
Authenticity Issues: Defining Traditional and Contemporary Dance
Moderator - Marrie Mumford, Panelists - Byron Chief-Moon, Rulan Tangen, Alejandro Ronceria
FILM SCREENING/LECTURE DEMONSTRATION/MASTER CLASSES/WORK-IN-PROGRESS
Friday July 14: 2-5pm Youth Workshops with Norma Araiza, Living Roots Foundation and Rulan Tange
7pm Showcase with performances from the above
Saturday July 15: 1-2pm Master Class # 1 Andrew Garcia (traditional Tewa dance technique)
Saturday July 15: 4-5 Work-in-Progress Showcase A Constellation of Bones
International Collaboration by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and Nishin Productions
Sunday July 16: 1-2pm Master Class # 2 Gaétan Gingras (contemporary dance)
Sunday July 16: 3-4:30 pm Film Screening Dancing from the Heart, Q&A with Marilyn Hunt and Andrew Garcia follows
Sunday July 16: 4:30-5:30pm Lecture Demonstration Agua by Earth in Motion World Indigenous Dance featuring Alejandro Ronceria
TICKETS & INFO
Friday July 14:
All Performances and workshops are at Woodland Cultural Centre, 184 Mohawk St., Brantford
Saturday July 15 & Sunday July 16:
All Performances, workshops, panel discussions and master classes at various spaces in Accolade East, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto
Prices:
Single Performance Program $28 ($23 Students/CADA)
Single Day Festival Pass - York University location only $45 ($30 Students/CADA)
3-Day Festival Pass $120 ($78 Students/CADA)
Individual Master Class/Work-in-Progress: $20 (depending on availability)
For performance tickets, call the York University Fine Arts Box Office: 416-736-5888
For information, and workshop and conference registration, visit www.livingritual.ca (schedule subject to change)
Registration for both Living Ritual and World Dance Alliance available at www.yorku.ca/wda: $380 ($229 Student/CADA)
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