Them Voices

Future Lineage

In Them Voices, past and future generations gather and manifest themselves in Lara Kramer’s body, mind and dreams. In Windigo, Phantom Stills & Vibrations (FTA, 2018) and in This Time Will Be Different (FTA, 2019), the choreographer of mixed Oji-Cree and settler heritage confronted an incessant and eternal present. In keeping with her journey to the heart of her lineage, Kramer anchors herself and becomes an open conduit through time and space; her multidisciplinary practice embodies primordial voices of past and future.

Based on last year’s show in the garden of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the new indoor version of this solo performance explores the relationship between the artist’s body and her memory, calling upon notions of performance, social critique and cultural resistance. With Them Voices, Lara Kramer excavates a world where stories come together to assess the consequences of our actions on future generations.

Produced by Lara Kramer Danse

Conceived, created, set and performed by Lara Kramer

Sound Design Lara Kramer + Simon Riverin

Outside Eye Peter James + Ivanie Aubin-Malo

Anishinaabe Knowledge Keeper Ida Baptiste

Elder Emerson Ninigishki’ing

Documentation Ivanie Aubin-Malo + James Oscar

Lighting Design Hugo Dalphond

Technical Director Joannie Vignola

Stage Manager Marie-Pier Jaques

Co-produced by Festival TransAmériques + Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV

With the support of Conseil des arts du Canada + Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec
Creative residencies Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV + Place des Arts + Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal + Théâtre Aux Écuries + Dancemakers (Toronto)

Presented in association with Espace Libre

Premiered at Festival TransAmériques, Montreal, on May 27, 2021

Written by Elsa Pépin + James Oscar

Interview Julie Burelle

Translated by Luba Markovskaia