By I’thandi Munro and Kay Macdonald
ONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!
$10 in advance and $15 at the door.
**Ticket includes admission to BE ETERNAL**
If cost is a barrier, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you.
Childcare available on site for free. Please register in advance.
Archiving and exploring movement through the cultural lenses of African Nova Scotian identity.
and so we dance explores the contemporary realities and historic contexts of moving/movement through time and place. Specifically looking at the realities of being African Nova Scotian within the broader context of Black + African American performance traditions. We explore cultural themes of tension, relation, freedom and love through the creative modalities of improvisation, contemporary dance and vocalization.
Credits:
Creators:
I’thandi Munro, Kay Macdonald
Performers:
I’thandi Munro, Kay Macdonald
Special Thanks:
Syreeta Hector, Sara Coffin, Liliona Quarmyne, Reequal Smith
Funding Credits:
Mocean Dance – CLEaR Forum Residency, The Khyber Centre For The Arts – KREAM Residency, Live Art Dance – CanDance Showcase
Music Production and Mixing:
Carmel Farahbakhsh, I’thandi Munro, Kay Macdonald
Lighting Production:
Louisa Adamson
I’THANDI MUNRO is an award winning dancer, performer, visual artist and educator, who has reached International recognition. She incorporates her lived experiences of her own cultural understanding within her artwork. She has a double major in Photography + Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has been facilitating within dance studios, Halifax Regional Arts, artist centers, and community programs for over a decade. Munro continuously seeks to learn new ways of making, teaching, collaborating, and continues to educate herself in a multitude of techniques. She has spent her entire life pursuing art but dancing is the constant base of creating throughout her professional career. Movement is at her core of making. When Munro became a mother, her exploration into uninhibited linework and freedom of creation was sparked by watching her two young children draw effortlessly and with confidence. These inspirations from her kids showed her new pathways, and taught her that you can make your own. This naturally led I’thandi into the research behind improv and freestyle dance. Munro uses the representation of line and lineage as underlying concepts in her art. Her work has become an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in many different ways. Munro is the founder of Drifted Collective as well as Scotian: The Collective. She has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies primarily based out of Mi’kma’ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company, Mocean Dance, Kinetic, Rooted Dance(Votive) Nestutasi Story Telling, Home Economics Collective, and KasheDance.
KAY MACDONALD (they/them) is an African Nova Scotian, Acadian, Queer, Trans community educator, artist, activist, facilitator, and performance based artist born and raised in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki. Macdonald’s artistic practice has roots in interdisciplinary methodologies. Gathering and curating scores of improvisational movement, dance, sound, and visual arts culminating in various forms of performance. Their work explores themes of observation, culture, ancestral lineage, connection, community and place. Macdonald’s work seeks to unravel restrictive concepts of identity, belonging, liberation, and societal constructs. Macdonald views the intersection of advocacy, community building, and artistic processes as a means to disrupt and intervene in harmful colonial and white supremacist narratives. Currently, Kay is working as the Program Coordinator at The Youth Project, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing support and services to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth ages 12-25. As well as, currently holds the role as Co-Artistic Director at Kinetic, a contemporary dance organization based in Kjipuktuk.
Event photo by Reequal Smith
I’thando Munro headshot by Cavell Holand
Kay Macdonald headshot by Matt Downey
