PISUWIN
When
Approximate running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Venue
Event Notes
PISUWIN
Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $42.50 admission / $37.50 members / $20 youth
Description: From award-winning director and choreographer Igor Dobrovolskiy, and multi-disciplinary artist Nipahtuwet Naka Wespahtuwet (Possesom) Paul (Wolastoqiyik, Sitansisk First Nation), Pisuwin is an epic first ever Wolastoq story-ballet set to the soaring music of Polaris Prize and Juno award-winning composer Jeremy Dutcher (Wolastoqiyik, Neqotkuk First Nation). Based on a Wolastoq tale, this multidisciplinary piece reflects on the current state of disease in our world, illuminating a path to wholeness and rebalance. The project features eight dancers and blends indigenous storytelling and ballet, redefining this classical form for a diverse, savvy and contemporary audience. Electronic sound, industrial landscapes and digital projection, juxtaposed with Wolastoq visual motifs of the spiritual and natural world, create the indigenous cosmology within which the story takes place. “Why does the water no longer quench our thirst?” Pisuwin pushes us to confront our greed and alienation, while inspiring us to take a different path; one of connection, community and wholeness.
Pronounced: Bee-zoo-win | Definition: supernatural being, spirit