Return Home (2015)

Produced by

MT Space and Salish Sea Productions and Urban Ink Productions

Presented by

The SummerWorks Performance Festival

Creator: Dima Alansari and Carlos Rivera and Émilie Monnet
Directors: Majdi Bou-Matar and Diane Roberts

Created by The Return Home Collective

Venue

The Theatre Centre – Franco Boni Theatre

Run

August 6th, 2015 – August 16th, 2015

Synopsis

Return Home follows two characters. One is an Indigenous Anishinaabe woman from Quebec living under the legacy of colonization, and the other is an Indigenous Palestinian woman born in exile, living in diaspora. We travel unchartered territory where two women, Indigenous to two very different places, Palestine and North America, converge in their personal struggles of love, selfhood, land and history. Joining the women is Raven, an Indigenous Mixteco from Mexico. He brings magic and transformation through dance and movement. Serving as a mirror it is Raven who transports the women to and from the realms of the imaginary and the real, giving rise to their awakening. Through music, movement, video and sound design, we watch as they discover what each can teach the other. (summerworks.ca)

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Cast

Dima Alansari	Performer
Émilie Monnet	Performer
Carlos Rivera	Performer
Nyla Carpentier	Fancy Shawl Dancer

Creative Team

Dima Alansari	Creator
Carlos Rivera	Creator
Émilie Monnet	Creator
Majdi Bou-Matar	Director
Diane Roberts	Director
Diane Roberts	Dramaturge
Melissa Joakim	Lighting Designer
Sunil Mewani	Sound Designer
Sunil Mewani	Sound Composition
Alex Williams	Video Designer
Maziar Ghaderi	Additional Video
Eric Sanderson	Additional Video

Music

Heather Majaury

Live Music Performance

Production

Christopher Douglas	Stage Manager
Lopa Sircar	Voice Coach
Scott Clark	Research
Minnie Clark	Photograph
Swaneige Bertrand	Costume Consultant
Sophia Dagner	Graphic Designer

Staff

Lindsay Jenkins	Venue Technician
Clint Bouwman	Venue Technician

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