Them Voices

Lara Kramer

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.  Laying out in all possible directions. What has been exerted, and what is failed. What is not yet seen or dreamt of. All is together, intersecting in Them Voice.  The artist strives to re-imagine new pathways connected to future ancestors in their flight and journey.

CREDITS

Conceived, Created, Set and Performed by

Lara Kramer

 

Sound creation and Editing

Lara Kramer + Simon Riverin

 

Outside Eyes

Peter James

 

Knowledge keeper

Ida Basptiste

 

Elder

Emerson Ninigishki’ing

 

Documentation

Ivanie Aubin-Malo + James Oscar

 

Lighting Design

Hugo Dalphond

Technical Director

Simon Riverin

 

Stage Manager

Jo Vignola

 

Co-Production

Festival TransAmériques + Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV

 

With the support of

Canada Council for the Arts + Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

 

Creative Residencies

Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV + Place des Arts + Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal + Théâtre aux Écuries + Dancemakers (Toronto)

 

Presented in association with

Espace Libre

 

Premiered at

Festival TransAmérques, Montreal, on May 27, 2021