Them Voices
Artist: LARA KRAMER (Montréal)
Mainstage Presentation
January 26 @ 8:30pm, January 27 @ 7pm
Duration: 70 minutes
Them Voices – Lara Kramer
Photo by Stefan Petersen
Image description: A woman of mixed Oji-cree and colonial heritage is sitting cross legged, surrounded by a large, clear, plastic sheet. She is wearing red pants, brown boots and a black hooded coat. She is holding her hands in front of her face and there is a black cylindrical tube on top of the sheet to her left.
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 has failed. What is not yet seen or dreamt of. All is together, intersecting in Them Voices. The artist strives to re-imagine new pathways connected to future ancestors in their flight and journey.
Co-produced by: Festival TransAmériques and Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV.
Delegate Producer: Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV.
With the support of: Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Creative residencies Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV, Place des Arts and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Théâtre Aux Écuries and Dancemakers (Toronto).
Presented in association with: Espace Libre.
LARA KRAMER is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Her choreographic work, research and field work over the last fourteen years has been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. She is the first generation in her family to not attend the Residential schools. Her creations in the form of dance, performance and installation have been presented across Canada and Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, Vienna, the US and the UK. She has received multiple awards, acknowledgments, and prizes for her work both as an emerging and established artist. In 2018, Lara received the Jacqueline-Lemieux Prize for recognition of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement in dance. Lara is a Center de Création O Vertigo – CCOV Associate Artist since 2021.
Information for Presenters: Available for touring.
CONTACT
Lara Kramer
info@larakramer.ca
larakramer.ca
Instagram: @larakramer6060
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