NGS is a foray into street culture, inviting the audience into the very heart of loss, alienation and the various addictions of those who inhabit it. Lara Kramer brings us a raw performance in which the dancers embody with great depth individuals separated from themselves, lost in the citadel of artificial nirvanas.   

Set designer and choreographer: Lara Kramer
Lighting designer: Paul Chambers
Mentor: David Pressault
Artistic advisor: Shawn Caldwell
Cast: Angie Cheng and Karina Iraola
Rehearsal director: Maria Simone
Creative process members: Patircia Iraola and Cris Derksen

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Lara Kramer
Lara Kramer Danse is a Montreal-based dance company that support the research, creation and production of Lara Kramer’s choreographies. Founded in 2012, the company has since been invited to perform at festivals in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Regina, developing recognition as an Aboriginal voice in Canada.

Kramer’s works are intimately linked to memory and her Aboriginal roots. Working with strong visuals and narratives, Kramer’s work pushes the strength and fragility of the human spirit further. Her work is as political as it is potent, often examining political issues surrounding Canada and First Nations Peoples. Kramer has been recognized as a Human Rights Advocate through the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.

Un travail de maître mené par Lara Kramer, qui ne nous laisse, certes, pas indifférents et qui, de la manière dansée la plus subtile, atteint en intensité notre corps et notre esprit.
(Df Danse – Justine Parisien-Dumais)

Kramer is an important new voice in our larger dance community as a contemporary choreographer, but also because her work is steeped in aboriginal concerns. What she’s expressing and sharing is the spirit and stories of her people, and giving audiences a chance to reflect and become sensitized to a different documentation of native people in conflict and crisis.
(The Dance Current – Philip Szporer, décembre 2013)

Kramer is a talent to watch. She wears her heart on her sleeve, which translates into dance theatre that is as vulnerable as it is emotional.
(The Globe and Mail – Paula Citron, juillet 2013)

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