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).