By Victor Swoboda The embattled culture of Norway’s Indigenous Sami people is at the heart of work by Elle Sofe Sara, a 39-year-old dancemaker and filmmaker whose presentations over the past several years have alerted European audiences to her people’s history. Her 2021 choreography, Vástádus eana — The answer is land, opens Montreal’s 16-day Festival
By Tin Gamboa “No matter what, I feel like this is what I’m supposed to do,” said Lorelei Williams, the founder of Butterflies in Spirit, a Vancouver group that works to advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and their families through the healing power of dance. When we spoke recently, Williams
By Tessa Perkins Deneault Splitting his time between the worlds of ballet and traditional Indigenous dance, Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a busy choreographer and dancer. While it can be difficult to balance working in more than one dance style, Fraser-Monroe plans to continue pursuing his parallel creative outlets. “Contemporary dance feeds my physicality — my desire