Opening with a Snuneymuxw welcome and presentation by Fernando’s residency participants, Traditional Future is a vibrant evening revealing the intensity of a deeply rooted culture and compelling contemporary voice. Traditional Future, first produced by Fashion Design icon, Pierre Cardin, asks the question of how to evolve Tradition towards Modernity without obliterating one’s tracks, without betraying one’s roots?
Anuang’a, an atypical and self-taught dancer/choreographer (autodidact) is supported and inspired by the Maasai songs, ancestral memory, and vocal rhythmic power for his gestural vocabulary and stark, stunning physical storytelling. His work calls on the collective memory, the oral memory – Imagine a book opening on the Savannah where the text is the song, the image is the dance.
