A discussion of approximately 20 minutes will follow the 70 minutes performance.
In Them Voices, past and future generations come together and manifest in Lara Kramer’s body, mind and dreams. The choreographer of mixed Oji-Cree and Colonial heritage confronts an unceasing and eternal present, and searches to be inside the place that carries memory and future imagination. Kramer anchors herself and becomes an open channel through time and space; her multidisciplinary practice embodies the primordial voices of the past and the future. This solo performance explores the inter-relationality between land, the artist’s body and her memory and future memory, drawing on notions of performance, social critique and cultural resistance. Kramer addresses a world where histories come together to assess the consequences of our actions on future generations. The artist strives to re-imagine new pathways connected to future ancestors in their flight and journey.
An introspective and minimalist experience that lasts. An opportunity to dive into an important social critique with this daring and radical performer!
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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 fieldwork over the last fourteen years have been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indigenous Residential Schools of Canada. She is the first generation in her family to not attend the Residential schools. Kramer’s relationship to experiential practice and the creative process of performance, sonic development and visual design is anchored in the embodiment of experiences such as dreams, memories, knowledge, and reclamation. She has received multiple awards, acknowledgments, and prizes for her work both as an emerging and established artist.
A performance by
Lara Kramer Dance
Conception, creation, scenography and interpretation
Lara Kramer
Sound design
Lara Kramer + Simon Riverin
Outside viewers
Peter James + Ivanie Aubin-Malo
Anishinaabe Knowledge Keeper
Ida Baptiste, Elder Emerson Ninigishki’ing
Documentation
Ivanie Aubin-Malo + James Oscar
Lighting design
Hugo Dalphond
Technical direction
Joannie Vignola
Stage Manager
Marie-Pier Jaques
