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Sarah Prosper, our body's are shaped by the land, kisulk, creator, intended for there to be cracks so that rivers could carry fish to our mouths and new mothers would survive with our feasts. Cycles of long life, everlasting movement. Photo: Devon Pennick-Reilly.

Sarah Prosper Performance

Dungeons Provincial Park
Sunday, September 17: 1 PM

Sarah Prosper has been invited to the Peninsula for a land-based residency during the last week of the Biennale. Prosper will spend time experiencing the land, water, ecosystems and communities. The residency will culminate in a new movement work, presented on the Biennale’s closing day.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Wisunn na Sarah Prosper (she/they/nekmow), Mikmaw/L’nu e’pite’s of the We’kwistoqnik (Eskasoni) First Nation, tu’s, nuji’j, kwe’jij, nsim, sukwis, aq nitaptut. “Amalkewinu,” began dancing at young age, and is now a Therapeutic Recreation specialist and MA Leisure student, artistic director of Samqwan and facilitator/curator of workshop “Moving in Mi’kma’ki.” Prosper collaborates, creates, and moves with ms+t no’kmaq, all her relations, in a fluid identity uplifting pursuit, as an Indigenous movement artist. Through a necessary decolonized approach, in research and in life, Prosper is learning and sharing the sacred knowledge of Indigenous/Mi’kmaq peoples in respect and reciprocity to dance, movement, social sciences & mental health in Mi’kma’ki.

An accomplished creator and leader in arts dance and culture, Prosper has performed, collaborated, co-created, co-produced, and consulted on productions, including recently: Koqm (shalan joudry), Nutuwiek? (NS Choral Federation), Alan Sylliboy & The Thundermakers (Co presented with Symphony NS), Fluid Forms ~ Utawtiwow Kijinaq (Mocean Dance & Sara Coffin), Ki’kwa’ju Reimagining Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf (FSPA, Christina Murray & Shelly MacDonald), and Lost Soul (George Woodhouse & the Public Service).



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