- Chasing the Dream: the Grande Prairie Century Play (directed by Annie Skinner, Grand Prairie, Alberta);
- Rising Above: Sunnyside YVC and the 2013 Flood (Trickster Theatre, Calgary, with whom we’ve collaborated on productions over the years);
- Tuwitames (a beautifully realized and deeply moving production directed by Jimmy Tait with music direction by Renae Morriseau, produced by Runaway Moon Theatre and the Splatsin Language Centre);
- Dances of Resistance (produced by the Aanmitaagzi Collective/Penny Couchie and Sid Bob, North Bay/Nipissing First Nation with support from Jumblies Theatre).
News from Savannah Walling, Artistic Director
This last spring and summer 2014 has been a lovely and deeply valued opportunity for both personal and professional journeys.
In April, Terry and I travelled to California, Arizona and southern Utah to visit my American family, my high school boyfriend, and my beloved mentor dance anthropologist Dr. Joann Kealiinohomoku, former director of Cross Cultural Dance Resource Centre in Flagstaff, Arizona.
We also visited our Navajo friends whom we had not seen for almost twenty years. The Navajo Nation is larger than ten of America’s fifty states; it is the largest Native American reservation in the USA. I love the stark beauty, stunning rock formations, and juniper-scented desert air of the Four Corners region, located 5,000 feet above sea level on the Colorado plateau. The American southwest is my birth home and my spiritual home.
We also had the good fortune of a stop-over in old town San Diego, where we joined a wonderful family reunion of the Wong Family from Chinatown’s Modernize Tailors.
This summer I am having a wonderful opportunity to see a series of community plays across Canada: