Photo : © Robin P. Gould
This play will be completely reimagined and adapted for performance in the chapel of the Sainte-Anne-des-Monts Convent! Come and (re)experience this work against the backdrop of a setting rich in symbolism and aesthetic appeal.
Lara Kramer’s choreographic work powerfully explores decelerated temporalities, intergenerational knowledge transmission, and the exercise of imagination as a political and cultural force, creating transformative experiences for audiences.
Remember that time we met in the future? moves through a world in transformation where land, light, sound, and memory converge. Within a shifting terrain of salvaged materials and spectral landscapes, four Indigenous artists journey through nonlinear time, where body and land, spirit and matter are inseparable. Each movement becomes a trace of ancestral memory and a gesture toward futures unfolding, a pulse shared between beings and worlds.
Through intimate physicality, layered imagery, and atmospheric resonance, the performers navigate a landscape of story, ritual, and relation. This is not dance as spectacle, but as invocation, where stillness holds weight, sound becomes breath, and tenderness meets storm. In this durational dreamscape, the dancers move with more-than-human kin, carrying the gravity of experience and the shimmer of emergent possibility.
The foundation of Kramer’s new project, Remember that time we met in the future?, is informed by Mno Ode—interpreted in Anishinaabemowin as “good heart” — the work embodies a spirit of renewal and connection. Contemporary dance, in Kramer’s practice, becomes a vessel for transformation and becoming, an invitation for audiences to enter a space of reverie and reflection, where new knowledge emerges through sensation, presence, and the shared pulse of creation.
Remember that time we met in the future? invites audiences into a present stretched by memory, a space of becoming, of heartbeats carried forward.
Photo : © Robin Pineda Gould
Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-
Cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. Her choreographic work, research, and field work over the last sixteen years have been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. She is the first generation in her family to not attend the Residential schools. Her creations in the form of dance, performance, and installation have been presented across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, Vienna, Belgium, the US, and the UK.
She has received multiple awards, acknowledgments, and prizes for her work both as an emerging and established artist. In 2018, Lara received the Jacqueline-Lemieux Prize for recognition of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement in dance. Lara Kramer has been an Associate Artist at the Center de Création O Vertigo (CCOV) since 2021.
The Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV offers a unique combination of experimentation and innovation for the creation and production of dance works. Through its long-term artist-in-residence program, the CCOV collaborates with outstanding choreographers to produce large-scale, ambitious works that contribute to the healthy evolution of contemporary artistic practices. A unique place for artistic reflection, an incubator of talent, and a catalyst of ideas, the CCOV’s production model nurtures the creative genius of a new generation of artists. Catherine Gaudet (ODE) is the third artist selected for the “CCOV Productions” program,
following Crazy Smooth (In my body) and Dana Gingras (Frontera).
Photo : © Stefan Petersen
Production: Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV
Creation, Costumes, Sound Design and Set Design: Lara Kramer
Performance: Sage Fabre-Dimsdale, Jeanette Kotowich, Kyana Lyne, Marcus Merasty
Lighting Design: Jo Vignola
Outside Eye: Peter James
Set Design Consultant: Sophie El-Assaad
Knowledge Keeper: Ida Baptiste
Production Management: Geneviève Lessard
Coproduction: Festival TransAmériques (FTA), PuSh Festival (Vancouver), National Creation Fund of the National Arts Centre, Danse Lara Kramer
Creation Residencies: Centre de Création O Vertigo, Fei & Milton Wong Theatre (Vancouver), Lab2M
