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Red Sky Performance: A group of shirtless people with their backs the camera holding up a woman facing the sky. She has a white cloth wrapped around her and white body paint on her arms and shoulders. She reaches up to the sky and her hair hangs down to the ground. The background is grey.

Red Sky Performance

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Trace

Trace is a highly kinetic contemporary dance work influenced by Anishinaabe sky and star stories, offering a glimpse into our origins as well as our future evolution. We are traceable to the beginnings of the universe, our ancestral origins stretching across the Milky Way to the atoms burning inside of us in the here and now.

Red Sky Performance, a group of people supports someone reaching the sky and gasping with their eyes closed. The person is has a buzz cut and a bare chest. They are all wearing tight-fitting white clothing. A projection of white letters falling from the ceiling is behind the dancers.
Red Sky Performance: A group of people in white leotards and shorts with mesh around their waists. They are all squatting holding their arms above their head that are bent at the elbow and wrist. They have white body paint on their eyes and thighs.
Red Sky Performance: a person in a white tank top arches up towards the sky with their arms spread wide. A person lifts them by the waist underneath. The background is black, and a tan smoke is over the dancers. A ring of light that looks like an eclipsed sun is at the top of the screen.
Direction/Concept

Sandra Laronde

Choreography

Jera Wolfe

Dancers

Sarah Di Iorio
Miyeko Ferguson
Lindsay Harpham
Tyler Layton-Olson
Jessica Mak
Connor Mitton

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Red Sky Performance

Trace

March 12th, 8:00 PM, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Rebecca Cohn Auditorium

GENERAL ADMISSION
Regular: $40.00, Senior: $35.00, Student: $30.00, Arts Worker: $30.00

Trace is a highly kinetic contemporary dance work influenced by Anishinaabe sky and star stories, offering a glimpse into our origins as well as our future evolution.

“We are traceable to the beginnings of the universe, our ancestral origins stretching across the Milky Way to the atoms burning inside of us in the here and now.

We explore the “traces” of what has come before us, mapping the past, tracing our lineage, demystifying the secrets of our DNA, and uncovering the visible marks of what we leave behind, such as a footprint, a fossil, or a scar.

For tens of thousands of years, the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (Canada & USA) have mapped the night sky, studied the stars, and established an expansive multiverse view of the world. Our sky and star stories hold our worldview and cultural psyche. illuminating our profound belief that we are related to all of creation. We are a part of the universe, and it is a part of us.

A huge thank you to Randy Glynn and to the incredible team at Live Art Dance. Chi-miigwetch to wisdom keepers, cultural astronomers and astrophysicists Wilfred Buck, Annette Lee, Daniella Scalice and Michael Wassegiizhig Price for being involved in our process. We deeply thank all of our relations and the Indigenous people of this land.”

 

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