The River - a new work

The River entered a Research Phase in Summer 2018.
A team of collaborating artists began investigating dance & interdisciplinary performance on the banks of the Wedzinkwah and Skeena Rivers on Wetsuwet’en and Gtixsan territories. We are still in this work (2023 and going…)!

Collaborator Aesthetic Vision

Words gathered from collaborators include: Ritual, Power, Partnering, Voice, Interconnection, Roots, Web of Life, Ripples, Messy, Part Of, Reaching, Approved by our Ancestors, Relief, Chaos, Reality, The truth, Panic, Stranger- family, Earth/littleblackeagle/peace mountain, Nests.

Our current core creative team includes (2022):

- Molly Wickham 

-Miriam Colvin

-Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg 

- Caroline Liffmann 

- Kristina Lemieux 

- Brian Huntington

- Nico Dicecco

- Kelsey Chamberlin

- Kayla Mitchell

- Sandra Martin Harris

CORE ADVISOR:

-Birdy Markert (Witsuwit’en, Smithers), a Laksilyu clan Hereditary Chief, singer & drummer, & project mentor

Thank you to all artists who have touched this project. This includes but is not limited to: Violet Gillenbeck, Jeanette Kotowich, Simon Stockner, Travis Pete, Shania-Rayne Michell, Denzel Sutherland-Wilson, Robin Lough, Lindsay Delaronde, Lillian Dennis, Katie Wertz, Kathleen Fair, Amanda Follett, Marc R Stewart, Emily Bulmer, Olivia C. Davies… many more names will be added shortly!