Lara Kramer I Windigo
Friday 10 May 2019 - Sunday 12 May 2019
Fierce and visceral, Windigo resonates like a scream, the vibrant echo of a long history of human ransacking and destruction, a violation of a land and its culture. Returning to her grandmother's home in the Lac Seul Reserve in northwestern Ontario (Treaty 3), the Canadian choreographer of Cree and Ojibwe heritage, Lara Kramer, confronts a latent war lurking under the surface. A northern epic with the air of a post-apocalyptic ballad, Windigo exorcises the demons and undercurrents of the violence perpetrated against First Nation peoples on Turtle Island.
Overlapped mattresses slashed, ripped open by a knife, mutilated. A mishmash of resurrected objects, a breath of life in death. A no man's land of destruction where Peter James and Jassem Hindi form a duo of wandering vagabonds, survivors killing time and boredom, spewing out and sublimating their pain and suffering. A contemporary ceremonial, the piece plays with strong symbols, powerful metamorphoses and intense emotion, sowing the seeds of hope in the midst of overwhelming devastation.
Dates: 10-12 May
Times: Friday 10 May 7:00pm; Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 May 5:00pm
Where: Upstairs Studio, Dancehouse (this event is not wheelchair accessible)
Price: $28 F | $22 C | $15 DH Member
Further information: dancehouse.com.au
Dancehouse
Carlton North
Date and time:
Friday 10 May 2019 -
Sunday 12 May 2019
Address:
150 Princes St