Yvonne ChartrandCompagnie V'ni Dansi's Artistic Director
Yvonne Chartrand is a contemporary choreographer and dancer as well as a national award-winning master Métis jigger. Her ancestors come from the Michif (Métis) settlement of St. Laurent, Manitoba. She is the Artistic Director of V’ni Dansi, whose name translates as “Come and Dance” in Michif. Dancers perform traditional Métis dance under the name - the Louis Riel Métis Dancers and contemporary works as V'ni Dansi. The company is dedicated to sharing the stories and culture of the Métis for Indigenous and audiences of all nations. Yvonne received the 2011 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts. Yvonne's most recent creation "Eagle Spirit" premiered in Vancouver in November 2016.
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Eloi HomierCompagnie V'ni Dansi's Event Coordinator
Born and raised on traditional Algonquin territory, Eloi Homier usually dances, canoes, and stargazes on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Everything Eloi undertakes – from dance and theatre, to storytelling canoe adventures, to sash-weaving, to astronomy (under the pseudonym Moon Guy Next Door) – has its raison d'être in his search for authentic identity.
With family lines stretching back 400 years and beyond on the territory now called Québec, Eloi is on a lifelong journey to weave his distant Gallic origins with his sprinkling of Wendat, Abénaki, Algonquin, and Nipissing roots in a way that gives a voice to his ancestors. |
Bruce Rice is a previous Saskatchewan Poet Laureate, an essayist and editor. Standstill, has been called a book one must experience. This new collection of journals and essays takes us through Ohio’s two-thousand-year-old Hopewell Earthworks, which include the largest geometric earthworks in the world. It asks how can we respond authentically to such places and what they awaken in ourselves. But these are also the landscapes of a writer who lives in the present. Rice's moving and evocative stories show us art that has saved lives—sometimes hundreds of lives—and a social history of those who literally have lost their power of speech.
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Standstill takes us on a journey through Ohio's two-thousand-year-old Hopewell Earthworks, which include the largest geometric earthworks in the world. But these are also the landscapes of a writer who lives in the present. Rice's evocative stories show us art that has saved lives-sometimes hundreds of lives-and a social history of those who literally have lost their power of speech. These are scenes that affirm the best that is in us and the persistence of beauty, which he says is stronger than we think and outlives us all.
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Phone: +1 306 525 5393 Artistic: [email protected] Management: [email protected] Events & Classes: [email protected] |
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2207 Harvey St, Regina, SK S4N 2N2 Canada |
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