MUSIC FOR THE GREAT LAKES
WHEN:
Saturday June 18, 2016
WHERE:
Music Main Stage at Fort York, Indigenous Arts Festival
250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto
A collaboration between Red Sky Performance and Arraymusic, we explore the music for The Great Lakes featuring Pura Fe (Tuscarora), Rick Sacks, Marc Merilainen (Anishinaabe), Julian Cote (Teme-Augama-Anishinaabe), Christian Parrish aka Supaman (Crow), Craig Commanda (Algonquian), and Marie Gaudet (Anishinaabe).
Make Saturday, June 18th a night to celebrate Indigenous music! Presented by the Indigenous Arts Festival at Fort York.
INDIGENOUS MUSIC CREATORS PROJECT
WHEN:
January 28 – February 1, 2015
Workshop: 11am – 6 pm
Performance: Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 3 pm
WHERE:
Arraymusic
155 Walnut Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Co-presented by Red Sky Performance and Arraymusic.
The Indigenous Music Creators Project is an innovative initiative that supports emerging and professional Indigenous musicians, singers and music creators who seek to score music for dance and theatre.
The project covers the core topics of composition, harmony, pitch, tempo, working with traditional and contemporary genres, working collaboratively and as soloists and pre-formed ensembles. We explore working with dancers, actors, and the moving image.
“It was exhilarating to be able to explore new possibilities, especially with new teachings and access to many instruments…this was off the hook!”
- Craig Commanda, multi-instrumentalist and music creator
CANADIAN PREMIERE OF LA NOSTALGIA REMIX
WHEN:
October 23, 2010 at 8:00pm
WHERE:
The Tranzac Club, Main Hall
292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Presented by Red Sky Performance and Toronto Free Gallery.
Since the early 90's, performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Native American conceptual artist James Luna have worked on ongoing project The Shame-man meets El Mexican't, in which they challenge assumptions and prejudices about ethnicity and culture with a strong dose of melancholic humour and sharp conceptualism.
Launched in 2007, La Nostalgia Remix is the last project in The Shame-man meets El Mexican’t series. The artists explore nostalgia as a style, a form of resistance, and as reinvention. Remix is a series of "live performances for an imaginary bar" that explore the cultural, symbolic and iconographic dimensions of nostalgia both on the Native American "rez" and in the Chicago "barrio".
La Nostalgia Remix is co-presented with Native Women in the Arts, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art.
La Nostalgia Remix is supported by the James Irvine Foundation, the MAP Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission's Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions Initiative, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
TONO: A MUSIC CONCERT
WHEN:
January 20 & 21, 2010 at 8:00 pm
WHERE:
The Music Gallery
197 John Street, Toronto, Ontario
Join us for an evening of stunning and evocative music that connects the world Indigenous cultures of Canada and Mongolia.
This concert features live music from Red Sky Performance’s highly acclaimed dance production, Tono, with composer & musician Rick Sacks and composers, musicians, and vocalists Tuvshinjargal Damdinjav, Bat-Orshikh Bazarvaani, and Batmend Baasankhuu.
TOMSON HIGHWAY FLIES WITH A LITTLE HELP WITH HIS FRIENDS
WHEN:
October 27 - 29, 2006
WHERE:
Gibsone Jessop Gallery
Distillery District, Toronto, Ontario
October 27, 28, 29, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Native Canadian Centre
16 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ontario
October 29, 2006 at 2:00 pm
A charming and whimsical cabaret in English, French, and Cree for all audiences showcasing celebrated artist Tomson Highway on piano alongside mezzo soprano Patricia Cano from Peru and saxophonist Uli Kempendorff from Berlin. This cabaret featured selections from Highway's The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito as well as excerpts from Highway’s musical, Rose.