![]() ![]() There will be a short Q & A after the 7:30 p.m. Meet Golden Glam and Silver Star, the guardian dolls of the Sky Kingdom To see them take flight, pull on their strings and watch them dance through the air. You can get tickets for Sky Dancers through the Harbourfront Centre website. She is passionate about telling the stories of her community and inspiring other Indigenous people to tell their stories, helping to instill pride in their histories. When audiences in Tkaronto/Toronto have the opportunity to see Sky Dancers from May 20 to 22 at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre as part of Torque, Kaneratonni Diabo hopes it encourages people to support Indigenous arts. ![]() Sky Dancers in 2019 performance / Photo by Brian Medina She hopes people will learn more about their contributions to the skylines of North America as iron workers, a rich legacy that is seldom highlighted. “These are real people, real families.” While she uses the word tragedy, Kaneratonni Diabo stresses that she also wants audiences to witness and feel the resilience of the Mohawk people. “When you see an art piece bringing something to life, it allows you to connect with it on an emotional and spiritual level.” She aims to harness this power with Sky Dancers because she hopes “to put a human face on the tragedy.” The set, projections, live musician and use of both Indigenous and English languages add additional layers to a creation that Bonjour describes as “quite spectacular.” Sky Dancers in 2019 performance / Photo by Brian Medinaįor Kaneratonni Diabo, art is a way to connect with people on a deeper level, a sentiment that informs her creations. Kaneratonni Diabo’s training in hip hop, powwow, Iroquois social and other dance styles has come together to form a one-of-a-kind style that she hopes will make the piece accessible to people from all backgrounds in dance, including current iron workers in her community. The result of this evolution is a deeply resonant, multidisciplinary presentation involving a massive team, many of whom have ancestors involved in the disaster in some way. “ allowed for a lot more reflection and time for things to evolve inside of me,” she said. This extended process has been particularly useful for the piece because of its personal nature. Kaneratonni Diabo has been working on Sky Dancers for more than five years it’s her most ambitious and involved project to date. “You can feel the personal connection she has to the story it’s palpable,” said Nathalie Bonjour, Harbourfront Centre’s director of performing arts and Torque program director. She created Sky Dancers in part to prevent his story, and those of his colleagues, from being lost to history.īecause of Kaneratonni Diabo’s connection to the tragedy, sharing this piece with audiences is deeply significant to her. Choreographer and performer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo’s great grandfather was one of those lost that day. Using both contemporary and traditional practices, Diabo brings the past to the present in a way that will enthrall and resonate with audiences while deepening understanding of Indigenous people’s history.Sky Dancers at Harbourfront Centre is a stunning dance-theatre piece that examines the Quebec Bridge disaster of 1907 a bridge collapsed during construction, killing 76 iron workers, 33 of whom were from the Mohawk community. It went on to win a prestigious Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Touring Production of the Year in 2022 in conjunction with its presenter in Toronto, the Harbourfront Centre.Īrtistic director and choreographer of A’nó:wara Dance Theatre, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, is a multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer who was notably named performer of the year of the Grand Prix de la danse de Montréal in 2021. The production, supported by the NAC’s National Creation Fund, premièred in Montreal, and was presented in Halifax in 2021. It’s a personal story for choreographer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo whose great-grandfather lost his life that day, and it’s a universal story that touches on family, community, resilience and building bridges between people and generations. Lawrence River collapsed while under construction, killing 75 men including 33 Mohawk ironworkers from the community of Kahnawake. The bridge that was to span 1,000 metres on the St. ![]() Sky Dancers explores the impacts of the Quebec Bridge disaster of 1907. Choreographer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo’s great-grandfather, Louis D’Ailleboust, was one of the men who perished in the. The fallout was felt around the world and the aftermath still echoes across generations. The visually stunning Sky Dancers production is being welcomed by the NAC Indigenous Theatre at the Babs Asper Theatre from Jan. Sky Dancers is a new multidisciplinary dance piece that explores the impact of the Quebec Bridge disaster of 1907, which killed 33 ironworkers from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. ![]()
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