Re-Quickening
Louise Pōtiki Bryant has been the video designer for three dance productions by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, including Re-Quickening.
Re-Quickening by Santee Smith is a women’s renewal ceremony. Conceived through an Indigenous creation process, it’s a spiritual resurgence, a piecing together of shards of knowledge, tipping colonialism on its head. The performance touches and moves forward through themes of dislocation from land, body and voice, the history of violence against Indigenous women since contact, residential schools, assimilative process of the Indian Act towards reclaiming women’s medicine, power and connection to land and creative force.
Founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Santee Smith, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre home community is Six Nations of the Grand River and home city is Toronto, ON.