Medicine Shows
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Medicine Shows

Indigenous Performance Culture

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Medicine Shows

Indigenous Performance Culture

About this book

Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell's Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Since those contemporaneous events in 1982, the Canadian community of Indigenous theatre artists has grown and inspired one another. Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture traces the work of a host of these artists over the past three decades, illuminating the connections, the artistic genealogy, and the development of a contemporary Indigenous theatre practice. Neither a history nor a chronicle, Medicine Shows examines how theatre has been used to make medicine, reconnecting individuals and communities, giving voice to the silenced and disappeared, staging ceremony, and honouring the ancestors.

Information

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781770913455
eBook ISBN
9781770913462
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American History
Index
Literature
139
APPENDIX 
1: 
ROME, 
ONTARIO
During 
the 
rehearsal 
process 
for 
Death 
of 
a 
Chief
, 
between 
January 
and 
March 
of 
2008, 
the 
company 
discussed 
the 
future 
of 
the 
c-
tional 
Rome, 
Ontario, 
and 
imagined 
the 
community 
that 
they 
wanted. 
At 
the 
top 
of 
a 
sheet 
of 
paper 
taped 
to 
the 
wall, 
they 
wrote, 
“What 
will 
we 
look 
like 
in 
a 
different 
light?” 
Below 
are 
the 
responses 
they 
came 
up 
with, 
prescriptions 
for 
healthy 
Indigenous 
communities 
everywhere.
What 
will 
we 
look 
like 
in 
a 
different 
light?
reclaim 
languages
autonomous 
landbase
500 
missing 
women 
return
respectful 
of 
each 
other 
/ 
themselves
rediscover 
traditions
no 
more 
rape 
of 
our 
children 
by 
us
traditional 
self-government
harmonious 
living 
with 
animals 
and 
nature
no 
need 
for 
status 
cards
visibility
awesome 
powwows!

Table of contents

  1. OLE_LINK1
  2. Medicine Shows
  3. Poison Exposed
  4. Survivance
  5. Remembrance
  6. Ceremony
  7. The Drum
  8. Making Community
  9. Trickster, Rougarou, Mahigan, and the Weeping Forest
  10. Bad Medicine
  11. The Eighth Fire
  12. This Is How We Go Forward
  13. Meegwetch x 4
  14. Appendix 1: Rome, Ontario
  15. Appendix 2: The Summit List, April 26, 2014
  16. Works Cited

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