Kaha:wi Dance Theatre
Photo Credit: David Hou
Homelands
Homelands is a dance honouring our kinship connection to the natural world, its patterns, energies, and life forces. A multimedia dreamscape creates the landscape: water, textures with three women dancers embody the elemental.
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre
Ohswé:ken/Six Nations of the Grand River
Tkarón:to’/Toronto
HOMELANDS
September 27th & 28th, 2024, 8:00 PM
Sir James Dunn Theatre
General Seating $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available
Run Time – 60 Minutes, No Intermission
Content Warning: None
Homelands is a dance honouring our kinship connection to the natural world, its patterns, energies, and life forces. A multimedia dreamscape creates the landscape: water, textures with three women dancers embody the elemental. Offering and aligning with earthy imagery and sound design.
Homelands places Yethi’nihstenha / many womxn within Kahnyen’kehàka ancestral homelands of upper state New York and Ohswé:ken / Six Nations of the Grand River. Making joyous, transcendent and powerful embodied alignments to Ka’satsténhsera’kó:wa Sa’oyé:ra / movement in the direction of the immense creation / nature, Homelands affirms human beings are creation made, we are land and water.
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre is a Rotinonhsyón:ni led company renowned for exquisitely produced and viscerally impactful performances, embodying stories which cultivate space for transformation, dialogue and connection to Indigenous knowledge and experience. Founded in 2005 by Ohswé:ken / Six Nations of the Grand River based Artistic Director Santee Smith, Kaha:wi (Ga-HA-Wee) means “to carry” in Kanyen’kéha. Sharing new Indigenous performance, embodied and multidisciplinary storytelling, Smith’s work is focused on Indigenous methodology, interdisciplinary and intergenerational work. Artistic and community research for performances delved into ancestral memory, Onkwehónwe:néha mind-set and strive to align with and share truth, creativity, and story. The company plans and hosts land-based creation labs such as “Inviting the Land to Shape Us” and offers educational opportunities through masterclasses and workshops. Reaching audiences regional to global, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre ignites awareness and sparks opportunities for collaborations and exchange.