A work-in-progress of Nigamon/Tunai at FTA 2023

— June 3-4, 2023 at FTA, Montreal —

Productions Onishka is about to share a work-in-progress of Nigamon/Tunai as part of Festival TransAmériques’s ‘Playground events’.

Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina have been collaborating for almost ten years on solidarity-based exchanges between their respective Anishinaabeg and Inga communities—and, more broadly, with other Indigenous artists. This has inspired a new work currently in development. In Nigamon/Tunai, they explore what it means to be a good ally. At the crossroads of friendship and resistance for the protection of water and against extractivism in their respective territories, the two women invite us to a precious sharing nourished by the living knowledge, cosmogonies and struggles that link them. In Canada, mining and oil companies still thrive, while over there, in the Amazon, on the territory of the Inga people, they destroy entire living environments to plunder their resources – including copper, central to Anishinaabe culture. In NIGAMON/TUNAI, Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina experiment with their voices, their breath and their bodies. Interweaving immersive performance and audio documentary among indigenous knowledge and voices, this new theatrical work reveals fascinating resonances between territories.

To premiere in the spring of 2024 !

Work-in-progress – June 3 (1pm) + June 4 (3pm) @ Théâtre rouge du Conservatoire (studio multimédia) | 4750, avenue Henri-Julien, Montreal (SOLD OUT)

Booking – Valérie Cusson, Cusson Management valerie@cussonmanagement.com / 514 892-5399

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