Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers

presents

THE PRAIRIE DANCE CIRCUIT

Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg

5 Dance Companies 

5 Artistic Directors

5 Winnipeg Premieres

ROBIN POITRAS· NEW DANCE HORIZONS

Regina

soft foot

Duration: 20 minutes

Choreographer: Robin Poitras

Commissioned & Performed by: Ziyian Kwan

Sound Design: Jeff Morton

Text: Robert Bringhurst

Lighting Design: David Fraser

Bear Shoes: John Noestheden

Dramaturgical Consultant: Jo Leslie

Ursa Major, is well known in the prairie sky. Her mythological inheritance lingers on the horizon. soft foot draws from a body of work that began many years ago, including an Ursa character created for Ziyian Kwan in Rouge-gorge’s recent group work, in fur till spring.

soft foot, a term coined by prairie movement maverick Amelia Itcush, is a constellation of images and actions in an inter-play of myth and body memory. This work is an ode to Amelia, choreographed by Robin Poitras, commissioned and performed by Ziyian Kwan.

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