Matriarchs Uprising

Start: 2023-04-13T20:00-0400
End: 2023-04-13T23:59-0400
Location: Azrieli Studio

Sophie Dow & Jeanette Kotowich (Program A)

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/31885

In-person event

Curated by Olivia C. Davies, Matriarchs Uprising is a unique festival of exchange and sharing through dance and performances, workshops and conversation. The festival creates a platform for Indigenous women who are nurturing the art of Contemporary Indigenous dance and storytelling, while holding space for past, present and future. Three curated mixed programs will be presented April 13-15. Special package pricing is available for all three shows! On April 13, Program A offers two...

Thursday, April 13, 2023

8 PM EDT

Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

This event has passed

Matriarchs Uprising

Apr 13, 2023 - 8 PM EDT

Azrieli Studio

Indigenous arts Dance Contemporary

In-person event
≈ 65 minutes · With intermission

Smoke machine
Haze

Curated by Olivia C. Davies, Matriarchs Uprising is a unique festival of exchange and sharing through dance and performances, workshops and conversation. The festival creates a platform for Indigenous women who are nurturing the art of Contemporary Indigenous dance and storytelling, while holding space for past, present and future.

Three curated mixed programs will be presented April 13-15. Special package pricing is available for all three shows!

On April 13, Program A offers two beautiful solos: Sophie Dow in a hidden autobiography and Jeannette Kotowich in Kisiskâciwan.

Following each performance in the Matriarchs Uprising series, Olivia C. Davies will conduct an interactive and engaging talkback session, providing an exclusive chance for attendees to gain insight into the creative process, learn more about her impressive portfolio of work, and directly interact with her through an open question-and-answer forum.

To learn more about April 14 Program B, click here; and April 15 Program C, click here.

Learn more in the program notes ›

Jeanette Kotowich © Sharai Mustatia

Sophie Dow © Kiera Shaw

Artists

Featuring Jeanette Kotowich
Featuring Jeanette Kotowich

Originally from Treaty 4 territory Saskatchewan, Jeanette Kotowich creates work that reflects Nêhiyaw/Métis cosmology within Indigenous performance, Indigenous futurism and contemporary dance. Her creations have been presented at theatres and festivals across so-called Canada, including Kwê at Matriarchs Uprising and The Dance Centre’s Dance In Vancouver. Jeanette’s been creating a series of short experimental dance films during the pandemic. She has been an artist-in-residence at Raven Spirit Dance, NAC Indigenous Theatre, Shadbolt Centre and The Dance Centre. In the summer of 2020, she conducted land-based research in her home province of Saskatchewan, fusing interdisciplinary collaboration, decolonial practices and embodied research towards the creation of Kisiskâciwan.
NAC media featuring Jeanette Kotowich
- Projects & initiatives
- Videos
Close
Featuring Sophie Dow

Featuring Sophie Dow

Treaty 1-born Sophie Dow is a multidisciplinary creative inspired by dance, music, film, collaboration and Métis-Assiniboine + settler/stranger roots. An avid adventurer, Sophie exudes passions for busking, yoga and travelling and holds a degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from York University. Sophie presently fulfills roles as creative director of PEC’s Flight Festival, artistic associate of O.Dela Arts & Chimera Dance Theatre, a musician with The Honeycomb Flyers, a licensed practitioner of Traditional Thai Massage and student of BreathWave.

Close